Does Visual Studio 2008 work well with Windows 7 pro 64bit

Question

I am just about to buy a Dell Studio 15 Laptop with Windows 7 Pro 64bit Has anyone faced any issues in installing or working with Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 Pro. Or do I need to go for Windows 7 Pro 32 bit?

[EDIT]
Any issues with any other development tools, what about VS2008SP1, Azure Add ons, Sql Server 2008 express, Virtual Server 2005 etc ?

[EDIT 2]
Could you all please list the development applications (specify 32/64bit) you have installed on you 64bit windows 7 (also specify the version of Windows 7 used)

Answer 1

I own ALMOST that exact laptop. A Dell Studio 16 with Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate (RTM) installed. It runs perfectly. Visual Studio 2008 runs perfectly, too. I also run the same setup on my desktop and it runs well there.

The following tools are installed and work flawlessly:

1. VS2008SP1
2. Altova XMLSpy 2010
3. AVGFree 9.0 AV
4. BeyondCompare 3.x
5. CodeSmith Pro 5.1
6. ReSharper 4.5.x (5.x EAP works too)
7. ASP.Net MVC
8. Office 2007 Ultimate
9. SQL Server 2008 64-bit (2005 32-bit Express worked fine too, but I don't have that installed any longer. I am sure 2008 Express 32-bit would work as well.)
10. All Modern Browsers
11. TortoiseSVN 64-bit
12. VisualSVN
13. WinRAR x64

Another reason to go with 64-bit is because that laptop will take up to 8 gigs of RAM, and you need a 64-bit OS for that. Save yourself a reinstall and go 64-bit now :)

Other notes about this laptop that I can tell you:

The laptop starts up and shuts down in just seconds. It's perfect for Win7.

You will be very happy, Binoj!

I have more information about my setup here. Aside: I also talk about how the performance improved when I added an SSD. I'm including this slightly OT stuff because I think it would benefit you personally, as your laptop is nearly identical. Note that in the blog post I have the RC installed, but I have been running the RTM for quite some time now and it works great!