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More confusion with VS Orcas March CTP Download/Install for Vista (Hopefully Revealed)

Mohamed — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:07:00 GMT

Few days before, I posted that you cannot install Visual Studio Codename Orcas March CTP on Windows Vista, however, I got comments from Dustin and Paul who just did it! (Dustin used a VMWare virtual machine though). Hmm.. I honestly wish I was wrong and I can use the new web features :S. But... Well, it's not only me. Many guys in Channel9 forums confirmed it, and others in MSDN forums (like here, here and here) with different errors. Even the download...(read more)

VS Orcas March CTP on Vista - Don't even think about it :(

Mohamed — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:01:00 GMT

Update [March 6, 2007]: I've gone through all the possible options for downloading/installing Visual Studio Orcas March CTP with high focus on Vista in a new post. I recommend it to you over this one. If you tried to install Visual Studio Codename Orcas on Windows Vista, you must have had an error during this. The error might not be clear at all, or in some times indicate that it's because it cannot find an error log file (which is should be creating itself) Well, long story...(read more)