Any of you doing production work using Vista RC1 and any of the below:

• VS 2005
• Sql 2005
• Resharper V2
• SourceGear Vault Client
• LLBLGen Pro V2
• NUnit
• Office 2003

and, most importantly

• World of Warcraft

Let me know how it's shaping up. I'm considering making the switch and would prefer to stand on other people's shoulders.

Jeff

jeffreygg wrote:

Let me know how it's shaping up. I'm considering making the switch and would prefer to stand on other people's shoulders.

I was going to try the RC1 on my home laptop. However, I read somewhere that SQL 2005 doesn't work on RC1. Supposedly you will need a yet to be released SP2 for SQP 2005.

Can anyone confirm this?

Bob

I have 5 devolopers using VISTA Beta2 with VS2005 and SQL2005Express (SP1) with no problems. I am waiting fo rthe ORCAS of RC1 before I upgarde to VISTA RC1 and then I would have more feedback on the RC1. I also have LLBL2 working on the VISTA-BETA2 happily with no problems

Orcas RC1 stuff is all out:

.Net 3.0 RC1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19E21845-F5E3-4387-95FF-66788825C1AF&displaylang=en

SDK RC1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=117ECFD3-98AD-4D67-87D2-E95A8407FA86&displaylang=en

Orcas RC1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=935AABF9-D1D0-4FC9-B443-877D8EA6EAB8&displaylang=en

I'm waiting for now... I'm a little scared of breaking my PC again, and also I am wary of vistas PC demands....

Just upgraded my desktop to Vista RC1. Works great so far. The install was smooth, and my development environment is running fine. Office 2003 is looking good as well.

Performance is snappy. My specs:

Athlon 64 3000+ 1GB RAM ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 7200RPM SATA

I just did it last night so I'll know more over the coming week.

Jeff

I've yet to test it (I do have vistarc1 somewhere, but if others can chime in, that would be great), but does the llblgen pro installer run on vista rc1? We have received reports it generates an error...

Otis wrote:

I've yet to test it (I do have vistarc1 somewhere, but if others can chime in, that would be great), but does the llblgen pro installer run on vista rc1? We have received reports it generates an error...

I did an upgrade, so I haven't tried. I'll try to remember to do it tonight. You're interested in both v1 and v2 I assume?

Jeff

Running the installer on vista rc1 gives an error at the end of the install, error 2869. Looking it up via google it's something cryptic with error dialog which isnt an error dialog (?). I've the feeling it's something with Vista, dunno. Anyone else had this as well?

edit: hmm, sounds like a vista prob: http://forums.asp.net/1388938/ShowThread.aspx

edit2: solution: If you're going to install the demo on Microsoft Vista RC1 or earlier, please follow these steps, as you'll otherwise run into the 2869 error: 1. Create a new .bat file in the same folder as the one the LLBLGenPro20.msi file is in. 2. Add the following text 'msiexec /i LLBLGenPro20.msi' and save the file. 3. Right click the .bat file and select 'Run as Administrator'.

I've no idea why this happens, probably when the installer tries to create the registry keys for VS.NET to find back the runtime libs...

For any of you who were wondering, World of Warcraft runs just fine.

Jeff

jeffreygg wrote:

For any of you who were wondering, World of Warcraft runs just fine.

Jeff

pfew (I've never played WoW though, for now I'll stick with Oblivion )

Otis wrote:

jeffreygg wrote:

For any of you who were wondering, World of Warcraft runs just fine.

Jeff

pfew (I've never played WoW though, for now I'll stick with Oblivion )

I've heard that is just an amazing RPG. I don't think I've got the machine to run it though, really.

It's choppy here and there indeed, but it IS a great game

Otis wrote:

It's choppy here and there indeed, but it IS a great game

I'm waiting for Spore to come out, so I can NOT buy it. I know it will be a time sucker!!!

BOb

Vista (64-bit) seems to work with VS 2005, SQL Server 2005, but LLBL Gen seems to have an issue getting the DB Schema.

• The .Net Framework Data Providers require Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC). Please install Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC) version 2.6 or later.

• Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {2206CDB2-19C1-11D1-89E0-00C04FD7A829} failed due to the following error: 8007007e.

I think .NET data providers have a problem with vista, this is an error reported by the .net data providers, not by llblgen pro code, it just opens an ado.net connection.

Hi guys,

I have installed the RC2 this weekend, bad surprise : even with the .bat file running with administrator privilege, it didn't work. Impossible to reinstall my LLBLGen msi.

Not all the msi have this pb. For the moment I get this error only with ghostdoc and LLBLGen. That's so weird.

Have someone any idea ?

thanks

mika

Mika wrote:

Hi guys,

I have installed the RC2 this weekend, bad surprise : even with the .bat file running with administrator privilege, it didn't work. Impossible to reinstall my LLBLGen msi.

Not all the msi have this pb. For the moment I get this error only with ghostdoc and LLBLGen. That's so weird.

Have someone any idea ?

thanks

mika

I was a little bit too fast sorry. In fact, if it's working with the full path of your msi in the batch file else I had the error.

Mika

An update...

The installation issue still occurs with Vista RTM (tested on the Business & Ultimate editions). Running msiexec as administrator fixes the problem (thanks for the tip on how to do this).

Yes, I have an idea why this is: either the registry key addition for the vs.net paths (so it can find the runtimelibs) or the gacutil /cdl call. I'll do some tests to see if this can be solved easily before we move to Nullsoft's installer system later on.

Any other issues developing with Vista RTM? I've been successfull so far, but VS 2005 interface leaves artifacts here and there. Web applications build and publish without issues, which is all I care about (at least as far as I've tested them.) I had to add 'localhost' to the IE7 trusted sites to enable debugging (http://blogs.clearscreen.com/migs/archive/2006/09/14/3488.aspx).

I've not created a WinForm app yet. Anyone? Is this thing safe?

most problems will arise with debugging. But I haven;t done any development on vista yet, as vista doesn't allow debugging in vs.net 2003 so I won't run the OS on my development machine.

I installed Vista RTM on my main development machine yesterday and most things installed without any problems, but there were a few issues I ran into.

The latest nVidia Vista drivers wouldn't install and Dell haven't released any Vista drivers yet, so I had to install video drivers from laptopvideo2go. Once installed, Aero glass started performing beautifully.

Installing TortoiseSVN seems to cause Vista to revert to XP-style contextual menus and the TortoiseSVN cache seems to crash at random intervals. Hopefully the TortoiseSVN team will be able to fix this soon.

SQL Server 2000 won't even install

When installing SQL Server 2005, it tells me that I need SP2 (which isn't released yet), but most things seem to work with SP1.

IIS7 is rather...different. Still figuring out where everything is

A big problem for me is that I have a lot of Windows PowerShell build scripts, but as PowerShell won't even install under Vista I'm going to have to come up with another way to build and deploy for now. Back to batch and vbs probably

Jez wrote:

A big problem for me is that I have a lot of Windows PowerShell build scripts, but as PowerShell won't even install under Vista I'm going to have to come up with another way to build and deploy for now. Back to batch and vbs probably

Really, I thought powersheel was built into Vista? It's impossible to keep up with all the changes that occured over the life of Vista dev cycle.

BOb

PilotBob wrote:

Really, I thought powersheel was built into Vista? It's impossible to keep up with all the changes that occured over the life of Vista dev cycle.

Unfortunately not. It was originally planned to be part of Vista but was cut out a while back. PowerShell RTM is already available for XP, but apparently won't be out for Vista until January.