If I have the services on XP, to port them to Vista - do I need to take care
of Session 0, communication with apps, QueryStatus and other features in
Vista..



"Keith Patrick" wrote:

> Yes, as long as the services/code libraries are part of the .Net framework
> and/or part of the WinFX pillars (Avalon, Indigo, WinFS (won't ship with
> Vista, though), WWF). From a development standpoint, the two OSs are
> roughly equivalent (although I think the Vista driver models allow for more
> robust sound/video/networking, but that affects performance more than
> functionality) such that you are targeting a common set of foundations on a
> common runtime that is shared between both OSs, even if the underlying
> implementations are a bit different. Vista will differ more in
> administration, user protections (although if you write your XP app the
> "correct" way, it should run under Vista without annoying the user),
> interface org, but the most apps don't interface with the OS at that level.
> Things I assume wouldn't work the same under the two OSs: games (Vista
> launches them differently, but I'm not sure if the game is isolated from all
> that stuff), antivirus (these usually break between OSs), file system
> utilities, shell extensions.
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