I needed to upgrade a few computers to windows 7. The best thing is that as I’m using the professional edition, Which gives me a free copy of windows xp, in the form of Windows xp compatibility mode, to test the applications on to ensure their compatibility with older systems.
It seems to be working well, allowing me to verify the presence of various things that I thought should be working. By adding a loopback adaptor, I can debug the application from within the confines of the virtual machine, easing the resolution of issues that are not present on my developer workstation.
DB upgrade steps complete for the next round of changes
I’ve completed the DB upgrade steps needed for the next round of changes. None of the connections have been made between the new table structures and the frontend (e.g. searching still uses the old fields).
Searching for a name will need the munging of the Prefix and Surname fields into a single field – this is simply as it would be too difficult to split into a prefix and surname to apply the SQL filter. I wonder if there’s a better way of doing that, though?