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Debugging .NET apps on Windows 98

I was sick all of last week and am still recovering from the flu. My blogging slacked off a bit, but now back at work I slowly feel the need to communicate about our bugs and status again.

Today we were faced with an interesting bug. Its little known but the runtime runs on Windows 98/98 SE/98 ME. As a result, we provide remote debugging support to this platform. We dont allow VS to run on this as the shell isnt supported in Windows 98 - this was a decision we made a while ago.

Now keeping this around is a cost on us and we've debated the old keep vs. cut decision around this many times.

How do you feel about this support? Dont care? Is there anyone who runs a larg number of apps on Win98 and debugs it using vs?

Shoot me some mail...

Shaykat

Published Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:39 AM by shaykatc
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Leon said:

I don't care about win9x, except when there is a crash :) It's very helpful to be able to debug a problem using VS.NET instead of using cordbg, windbg, SOS, and friends.

I would say if you support win9x, then it would be helpful of VS.NET supported debugging it.
February 15, 2005 12:47 PM
 

Jonathan said:

Man, it will be nice when the world is off of 9x. Will make things much so easier.
February 15, 2005 12:59 PM
 

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] said:

Oh man. Kill it, let it die a quick, horribly painful death...
February 15, 2005 1:39 PM
 

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] said:

Oh man. Kill it, let it die a quick, horribly painful death...
February 15, 2005 1:39 PM
 

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] said:

Oh man. Kill it, let it die a quick, horribly painful death...
February 15, 2005 1:39 PM
 

Howard Hoy said:

Please bury it along with Microsoft Bob.
http://www.doyousnap.com/portal/albums/7/159.aspx
I think it's time to update?

Howard
February 15, 2005 2:38 PM
 

Michael Giagnocavo said:

Win98 shouldn't be used in any professional environments these days (Yea, I know it IS, but it shouldn't be) , so why support it? The crowd is calling for blood :)
February 16, 2005 7:39 AM
 

zzz said:

As long as fixing that bug does not delay or cut anything related to VS2005, then fix it ;)

If it does, well I think you can point the 98 users here to see what was the public consensus..
February 16, 2005 12:46 PM
 

Keith Hill said:

Until we can tell our customers that Microsoft no longer supports Win9x (~ June 2006), we need to be able to debug our C#/.NET apps on Win98. And yes, we have certainly run into bugs that only appear on Win98.
February 16, 2005 3:42 PM
 

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