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

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    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.

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

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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    Please bury it along with Microsoft Bob.
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    I think it's time to update?

    Howard

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    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 :)

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2005
    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..

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2005
    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.

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