[02/03] Deploying VB.NET app to win98 machines.

[Xcoder]

I might ask specifics in another post, for now I was just wondering how well does a VB.NET app works in win98, generally speaking, would you guys consider it a good idea performance-wise?

Just considering the performace hit of Framework 1.1.

(Our app might be used in old PCs).

[Asgorath]

I was able to run my vb.net app in a p3 at 800mhz with 128mb of memory.
It Windows 2000 pro so i don't about w98?!
But it was quite slow.
Jorge

[kleinma]

I have tested running .NET apps on 98-2003.

If you are asking if an app will run slower on 98 than on XP, that is all relative to the hardware, not the OS. Of course generally speaking a 98 machine is more likely to be on older hardware.

You should test your app on 98 to make sure things work correctly, but I would defenitly not exclude it from the systems you plan to deploy to, if you do, you are cutting out potential user base.

People running 98 on older machines are probably all too familiar (and used to) apps running slower on their machines, than on a nice new XP box.

[Xcoder]

I have tested running .NET apps on 98-2003.

If you are asking if an app will run slower on 98 than on XP, that is all relative to the hardware, not the OS. Of course generally speaking a 98 machine is more likely to be on older hardware.

You should test your app on 98 to make sure things work correctly, but I would defenitly not exclude it from the systems you plan to deploy to, if you do, you are cutting out potential user base.

People running 98 on older machines are probably all too familiar (and used to) apps running slower on their machines, than on a nice new XP box.

Ok, How about specs? what do you recommend on your own apps as min requirements?

[kleinma]

Honestly, my app was pretty basic (was a webbrowser app that was customized to only go to a specific website, and assist in form filling data) but I was running it on (believe it or not) a 1Ghz Machine that was running windows XP as the main OS, and then VMWare, to emulate a guest OS, and ran 98 on that.

So the 1Ghz machine (with only 256MB of ram) was running XP, VMWare, and windows 98, which I ran my app on.

Obviously it was a little slow, but it ran no problem. I would refer to the minimum system requirements of the .NET framework itself, and base your programs requirements on that, unless your program does something that specifically needs a lot of horsepower.