Does anyone have any real world advice on if Vista is ‘ready’ to be a developer platform? I am still running XP SP2 and my environment is nice and stable. I am reluctant to switch to what is essentially a 1.0 platform.

In particular I am nervous about UAC and related technologies embedded into Vista and their impact on my collection of development tools and utilities.

I have never successfully moved into the LPU (Least Privileged User) camp, even though I know I should, and I understand why UAC has been developed to force the issue.

All this being said, I am writing numerous production applications that are going to have to run on Vista, and I can’t really afford a second machine. I have been toying with the idea of installing Vista on Virtual Machine just for this purpose, but my understanding is that while this is possible, you don’t get the full experience in a VM environment yet.

Anyway, if you have any experience developing using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista I would appreciate any feedback you can send me.

Cheers,

Robert Porter