I have Vista loaded and everything is going great. This past week, Microsoft released a service pack for Visual Studio 2005. I thought this would solve some of the issues with Vista and Visual Studio. When you load the sp and start Visual Studio, you get the following message: Visual Studio 2005 SP1 requires an update for Windows Vista
So to run properly on Vista, there is another update that Microsoft is working on. If you click the Learn more about Vista in the Start up Window, it brings you to: MSDNWiki Beta? Maybe there is a mistake here. After searching, I found this page that contains info on Visual Studio 2005 SP1. It contains a link for Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Betawhich leads you toThe download you requested us unavailable. The Vista update is still in beta and I’m sure this is why the links are a little crazy, but I think someone needs to update them before we get a lot of frustrated developers out there.
The same goes for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, which also has a couple of issues running on Vista. You can find info here as the service pack is not yet complete. SQL does work, but you just need to be aware that you could have an issue or two. You can find more info on this at Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista.