Vista and Developers

[MPHopcroft]

A recent upgrade to Vista leads me to some questions. (I know you laugh, but Vista's file-handling capabilities are things I really like).

My main question is this: there have been some programs I have used where to alter data I have had to run the program as the Administrator to avoid run-time errors and save my changes. I haven't tried to do any developing under Vista with HL yet, but is that the case here?

[rob]

At 10:11 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:

My main question is this: there have been some programs I have used where to alter data I have had to run the program as the Administrator to avoid run-time errors and save my changes. I haven't tried to do any developing under Vista with HL yet, but is that the case here?

Our testing under Vista has not been extensive. However, we have not run into any issues like you describe above. We have NOT tested under a wide range of security settings. We've tried a few that seemed representative, and things worked smoothly for us. When we cranked the security up to very aggressive levels, HL becamse unusable without expressly granting it exemption from some of the restrictions, but I believe that will be true of virtually any Windows application that isn't designed specifically for Vista.

You should be able to fully test HL under Vista within demo mode. If HL works fine in demo mode, including the creation of custom content, then it ought to work fine once licensed.