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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...
Someone asked me by email how if it was still possible to download one of the Release Candidates of Windows Vista. The answer is yes you can or at least I know how you can download Windows Vista RC1 from the official channels and here is how:Navigate to the following url: http://www.microsoft.com/wi... with your Windows Live IdChoose the languageThat's it!Imho they forgot to put this offline but in the meanwhile you can download...
It looks like the Windows Vista RTM has already leaked on the world wide web. Imho this must come from within the Microsoft walls since it isn't available on the MSDN Subscriptions downloads. Maybe it is just a trick from Microsoft to get a lot of people already acquainted with Microsoft's newest Windows platform? Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
I guess that the title says it all, after several problems and cutting numerous features they managed to release Vista within the promised timeline: http://msdn.microsoft.com/w... if you have access to the MSDN Subscriber downloads:Windows Vista and Office 2007: Availability on MSDN Subscriber DownloadsWindows Vista and Office 2007 will be available through MSDN Subscriber downloads within 7 days of release to manufacture (RTM). MSDN Subscriptions is committed to making new content available...
The Windows Vista team has posted on their blog pictures of the new Windows Vista and Office 2007 packaging. They look a lot better then their predecessors! See the other boxes here. Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
As you have propably already read on the blogosphere: a couple of days ago a pre-RTM build of Windows Vista (Build 5840) has leaked. Those who were in the CPP (Customer Preview Program) could use their product key to install and active the beta builds. This has ended with build 5840 as you can no longer use those product keys to install Windows Vista. Ah well, I guess we are going to have to wait for the RTM then. Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
The biggest disadvantage of new operating systems is the lack of working software or at least designed to work on the new platform. One software I was missing for Vista was a decent CD/DVD burning tool, something like Nero. Months ago the team behind Nero already announced that they were working on a patch to make Nero 7 compatible with Windows Vista. Every month they release an update and the latest update that will upgrade your version of Nero 7 to version 5.7.5.0 is that update a lot of people...
Microsoft has just launched the CPP (Customer Preview Program) for the first Release Candidate of Windows Vista. I'm not a fan but if you are you can download both the 32 as the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista RC1 here:http://download.window... recommend that you use a download manager. I have been using Internet Download Manager for a while and I am pretty happy about it. Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
If you have installed Windows Vista RC1 and have a graphics card with a NVidia GPU you can download and install the ForceWare drivers here:http://www.nvidia.com/... Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado
Has anyone tried and succeeded in installing Windows Vista RC1 in VMware Workstation v5.5? I have tried several different combinations, choosing custom types, 384MB, 512MB, 1024MB RAM and so on but for some reason the installation stops at the screen with the progress bar on the bottom and the caption "Windows is loading files...": Sure I could just switch to Virtual PC or another virtualization software but if you have a VMware Workstation license you want this to work too in VMware Workstation...
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