Visual Studio 2005 runs fine on Vista. The main caveat, you must have VS2005
SP1 applied.
See here for a list of known issues on Vista:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa964140.aspx
I haven't heard of the Frontpage question, myself - mind you, I don't do
much (any?) web development. But I suspect the rumour arose because of the
misleading error message from Visual Studio that Frontpage extensions are
not installed - the solution to this error is not to install Frontapage
extensions; rather, you need to turn on the IIS 6 compatibility layer.
Lots more information about running VS2005 on Vista, here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx
FWIW I have tried remote debugging of Win32 code, using VS2005 on Vista, and
that worked fine.
Hope it helps,
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Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au