Vista version and SQL express 2005 compatability

I am a software developer.
I have a Point of Sale app running sqlexpress 2005 on xppro.
The front end is vb6. NO CURRENT ISSUES.
We need to move to Vista (as we all do).
Does ANYONE have any comments about Vista and SQLexpress 2005?
Any version issues?
THIS IS HUGH ISSUE FOR US...POS contols $$$$$...mistakes are bad.

My tea shirt for Longhorn is 6 years old, and getting faded now Any 2005
app would have built 'toward' Vista from the start, and would certainly have
an update or upgrade available. That said, there may be some readjustments
necessary for the 'run as admin' features.

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"bmsspos" <> wrote in message
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> I am a software developer.
> I have a Point of Sale app running sqlexpress 2005 on xppro.
> The front end is vb6. NO CURRENT ISSUES.
> We need to move to Vista (as we all do).
> Does ANYONE have any comments about Vista and SQLexpress 2005?
> Any version issues?
> THIS IS HUGH ISSUE FOR US...POS contols $$$$$...mistakes are bad.
>

"bmsspos" <> wrote in message
news:403BACD8-CF71-41A0-938E-...
>I am a software developer.
> I have a Point of Sale app running sqlexpress 2005 on xppro.
> The front end is vb6. NO CURRENT ISSUES.
> We need to move to Vista (as we all do).
> Does ANYONE have any comments about Vista and SQLexpress 2005?
> Any version issues?

> THIS IS HUGH ISSUE FOR US...POS contols $$$$$...mistakes are bad.
>

You're going to have more problems with the VB 6 application itself and
getting it to run on Vista. The one thing you don't want to do is bring
common DLL's from another platform such as XP and deploy those non Vista
compliant DLL's to the Vista platform, a DLL hell situation. SQL Server 2005
Express has no problems running on Vista, as long as you apply the SQL
Server 2005 SP for Vista.

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. > wrote in message
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> "bmsspos" <> wrote in message
> news:403BACD8-CF71-41A0-938E-...
>>I am a software developer.
>> I have a Point of Sale app running sqlexpress 2005 on xppro.
>> The front end is vb6. NO CURRENT ISSUES.
>> We need to move to Vista (as we all do).
>> Does ANYONE have any comments about Vista and SQLexpress 2005?
>> Any version issues?
>
>> THIS IS HUGH ISSUE FOR US...POS contols $$$$$...mistakes are bad.
>>
>
> You're going to have more problems with the VB 6 application itself and
> getting it to run on Vista. The one thing you don't want to do is bring
> common DLL's from another platform such as XP and deploy those non Vista
> compliant DLL's to the Vista platform, a DLL hell situation.

Not true. We have a large VB6/C++ app (written on XP machines) that runs
fine on Vista. DLL hell no longer exists (since Windows 2000!), since old
DLLs will not overwrite newer DLLs. The OS does not allow it.

"bmsspos" <> wrote in message
news:403BACD8-CF71-41A0-938E-...
>I am a software developer.
> I have a Point of Sale app running sqlexpress 2005 on xppro.
> The front end is vb6. NO CURRENT ISSUES.
> We need to move to Vista (as we all do).
> Does ANYONE have any comments about Vista and SQLexpress 2005?
> Any version issues?
> THIS IS HUGH ISSUE FOR US...POS contols $$$$$...mistakes are bad.
>


As long as your app doesn't do things like store data in the Program Files
hierarchy you should be fine. I'd get a Vista machine that would be similar
to what your customers would be using and test the heck out of it.

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Kerry Brown
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