Recently, I upgraded to Windows 7 RC and found that the experience has been great. Zero compatibility issues, all works as it worked in Vista and the integration with Windows Easy Transfer (WES) has been phenomenal. If you don’t know WES, it is a tool available by default with Vista and Windows 7 that allows you to migrate your Outlook, IE, Desktop and other personal settings easily, in addition to backing up your files across different locations.
Coming back to the original intent of the post, as always I have the Beta versions and Visual Studio 2010 is something I can’t resist trying out on Windows 7 RC. Surprisingly, there was zero issues when installing on Windows 7 RC. The only work around that is running all over the internet is that SQL Server 2008 SP1 must have been installed before installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta on a Windows 7 RC machine.
I had it already so faced zero issues. If you don’t have SQL Server 2008 SP1 installed, you would want to do that first from here before installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 on a Windows 7 RC machine.
Go ahead, install Windows 7, install SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2010 and get to experience the latest with Application Development.
Cheers !!!
posted @ Monday, June 15, 2009 7:25 AM