Hi John,
Check out Delphi 2007 for Vista development. It runs well in Vista,
and produces Vista compatible applications. It used to be by Borland,
which at time was Inprise, but is Borland again, but now Delphi is by
CodeGear, a wholly owned subsidery of Borland. Try
www.CodeGear.com
for info.
-- Larry Maturo
"John Kotuby" <JohnKotuby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> As a software developer I have generally been disappointed in Vista, as it
> had very poor support for Visual Studio and SQl Server. Now I am having
> another problem with it, on a new Dell Dimension.
>
> I can use FireFox on that machine for web surfing with no problem.
>
> However, IE7, Outlook 2007 and MS Mail have stopped working with the
> internet... cannot make any connections with websites, newsgroups or mail
> servers.
>
> When I run the network diagnostic from IE (after it says "Cannot
> connect...") it reports that there are no problems found!
>
> I have done a bunch of searching for answers and have found none that fix
> the problem.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> BTW I am the IT Manager at a small company and have worked with computers
> and PCs for 16 years, including DOS based machines and IBM mainframes. I
> have not ever encountered such problems as I am seeing since I upgraded my
> PC at home to a Vista Ultimate model.
>
> I refuse to upgrade any of our 30 PCs at the office to Vista. I will stay
> with XP for at least another year or 2. I don't really see any advantage
> to Vista... especially from a Software Developer's standpoint.
>
> Thanks to all in advance...
>
>