I am managing a "legacy" environment,owned by retired developers.
A have many Windows Forms Silverlight applications built with VS 2010,2012,2013 running on windows xp and windows 7.
We are moving to a new hardware/software environment running windows 2012 R2,so
I was asked if these older applications can run on ws2012r2.
My understanding is that these applications should work;what is the best approch to answer this problem?
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we have an application running on windows server 2003 which needs to be migrated to windows sever 2012. Is it possible to do the as is migration without actually updating the application. The application is currently scheduled in windows scheduler on windows server 2003. Also please suggest if we can achieve this with any migration tool.
VB6 applications should generally work without changes in all current Windows versions, including Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10. The official word at Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 is:
The Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on the following supported Windows operating systems: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 including R2, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 including R2, and Windows 10.
Now, you mention that this particular app is currently scheduled in windows scheduler. There have been significant changes between Server 2003 (or Win XP) and 2012 (or Win 8.x) in areas of security, file/registry virtualization, UAC etc. If your app violates any of the new rules, then it may require an update - but that would be because of what it does, and not because it's written in VB6.
I've installed several .exe created in vb6 in Windows Server 2012 R2 without problem.
The only question was the use of an very old setup.exe for installing, that was replaced to using an setup.msi, but the .exe and .dll and even .ocx incuded in the solution all works.
Can I develop Windows 8 Apps using VS 2012 on Windows7 platform, I have gone through the website, but they have mentioned that Windows 8 is mandatory?
With certain exceptions, the Visual Studio 2012 Windows Store app authoring experience is restricted to Windows 8.
You may be able to get the command line tools working on Windows 7, but the IDE requires Windows 8.
I use windows server 2008r2 for development. I want try work with Windows phone 7 SDK. But it available only for Windows7 and Vista.
Is there some trick for development on WinServer?
I did this with the v7.0 version of the tools by following the instructions at Buliding Windows Phone 7 projects on Windows Server 2008
I have tried with the Mango tools though (as don't need to build on Server anymore).
There is no provision to develop WP7 applications on Windows Server 2008 or R2.
There is a workaround to compile WP7 projects on Windows Server 2008, which supports TFS builds, but as far as development on the platform the installer prevents you from doing that. Frustrating, to say the least!
Does anyone know the best approach to setting up an automated build of a Windows Phone 7 solution on Windows 2003 server?
The SDK will only install on Win 7 or Vista.
Please see this question regarding setting up the tools on Windows Server 2008.
It refers to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx and while there is no comment on using this technique with 2003 but it'll be with giving it a try.
In order to set up the build process, the Windows Phone 7 SDK would be required. According to the download page, the only supported operating systems are:
Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except
Starter Edition
Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition
Therefore, currently there is no support for Windows Server 2003 and you would have to install Windows Vista at least. This is introduced because of system-specific considerations (e.g. DirectX 10 capabilities).
I am a developer and have a XP laptop that I use to dev a SQL 2005 database and MSAccess 2003 frontend database as well as VS2003 website.
I want to upgrade to Win 7 using XP mode to install the software above. This is because I still want to install Office 2007 on Win7 etc.
Do you think XP mode on Win7 will be reliable enough for this? Also do all xp mode apps have to run in the xp mode window? Is it possible to access xp mode SQL db from Windows 7 mode?
Visual Studio .NET 2003 is not compatible with Windows 7 and would have to be run in XP Mode. Visual Studio 2005 will require Service Pack 1 to work properly as well. SQL Server 2005 will install without a problem at all.
The XP mode offered in Windows 7 is basically an integrated Windows Virtual PC. The XP mode can be reliable (if you think we can call XP reliable) but the performance of a virtual machine will always be lower comparing to a natively installed windows xp.
You can make the SQL db in the XP mode accessible from Windows 7, since XP Mode is essentially a virtual machine, you need to configure the database in the Virtual Machine to allow external connections to it as a database server.