UAC
During the installation of Visual Studio on Windows Vista you will get the following pop-up window when the installation will try to launch devenv.exe: As you have propably read due to improvements made to Windows Vista like the infamous User Acount Control (UAC) Microsoft doesn't support Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 and there are some issues with running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista and at the moment the only way to work around these issues is by running Visual Studio...
I have been playing around with the latest Windows Vista builds and I have written an article on the ActiveX Installer Service but I am not able to complete the article because apparently it doesn't work yet. My guess is that the problem lies within Internet Explorer as it needs some adjustments to work correctly with the ActiveX Installer Service. I really hope that this feature makes RC1 but chances are odd.What is the ActiveX Installer Service in a nutshell? Everytime Internet Explorer needs...