At work I'm using XP with VS2003, SQL2005 because we've some projects I need to work on that are in .Net 1.1 and VS2003 projects. At home I'm running Vista and while I like it, the generally sluggish UI is annoying and I have to run VS2005 and SQL Express SP2 etc. I also want to start working on some of the MS certifications. Should I stick with Vista an VS2005 at home, or drop back to XP and VS2003. Whaddy think, and what are you using?
What OS do you use for .Net development
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I use XP and VS2003 and never have any problems. Granted, I don't do any heavy .net stuff. it's usually just editing stuff our devs have done. All our devs use XP though. A couple have tried Vista but went back to XP shortly after.
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Anyone using Vista 64 bit?
Laptop is up to spec. 2Ghz, Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram etc. Its just Vista never feels fast switching if your constantly switching between XP and Vista. I'm currently running Vista 64. Was running Vista 32 for the last 9 months or so. I tried Server 2008 yesterday and its far faster than Vista. Better than XP even. Unfortunately I couldn't get a driver that work with my laptops 7900gs in the proper widescreen resolutions. 1920x1200 or 1440x900 etc. I might try again using powerstrip.
Then again I could try a Mac
http://blog.1530technologies.com/2006/08/visual_studione.html
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I really want to move to Vista 64 bit but a colleague in work installed Oracle 10g client and he couldn't get it working. 
I might dual boot XP and Vista 64 bit.
I might dual boot XP and Vista 64 bit.
tried both Vista 64 bit & XP 32 bit both fine, vista machine is a fair bit quicker due to it being daul core though
What are you doing that the 64 is quicker. As its not quicker in all tasks I thought. Mine doesn't feel any quicker tbh.