Windows Vista Compatability

So first of all the System Center Service Manager class was full. Then the SharePoint Services 3.0 Overview was full, so I wound up searching for a room that had some free space available. I wound up in a class where they are discussing Vista application compatibility. One of the big compatibility issues with running applications on Vista is the ability to run under Standard User Mode, something for us to think about when we are testing our existing WinForms applications. Microsoft offers a tool called the Standard User Analyzer.

Standard User Analyzer is a tool that verifies whether or not an application runs in standard user mode. I also learned how Vista introduces hundreds of shims that allow existing applications to run inside of Vista. If your application is not in charge of maintaining machine state, then it doesn’t need to be an administrator.

Perhaps we can add the Run as Standard User to our test plan the next time we run through a test on a WinForms application.

Lunch Time....