Vista, Visual Studio and Dotnetnuke development

hooligannes97 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:10:00 GMT

I had been using Vista on a Virtual PC to slowly become acquainted and I had refused to own a notebook, until I was sucked into reality when my wife asked me to take a week off or else... Long story short, I looked for and bought a laptop in less than an hour. I configured it with 4GB RAM an Vista Business 32-bit, since I wasn't prepared to spend more on a 64 bit machine for my first purchase.

After installing Office, it was time to set up my development environment for my DotNetNuke projects. VS 2008, SQL 2005 and Virtual PC 2007. After set up, I started to configure my DotNetNuke environment and experienced issues when trying to install DotNetNuke.

I had two specific issues:

The install would hang. After several attempts and getting help from Charles Nurse I realized it was that VS2008 only installed the latest MS AJAX version, and DotNetNuke uses AJAX v 1. After installing it everything was OK
After successfully installing DNN4 it was time to play with DNN5 Betas. With Vista's IIS version you can create sites, not just virtual directories and I was happily trying to create one called http://donetnuke_2 to follow the practice for core modules. For some reason after installing the beta successfully I could not login into DNN. With help from Sebastian Leupold, Erik Van Ballegoij, Charles, Chris Hammond and Shawn Mehaffie, I finally pinpointed the error to the fact that you cannot use dashes in the domain part of the URL. After switching to http://dotnetnuke2 I was back in the game.

This are just two issues I came across and so far I have been coding away without any issues in Vista and VS2008. I plan to start testing Windows 7 and VS2010 CTP in my first attempt to be an early adopter. Of course, I will post my findings here, stay tuned.

Have you found other issues with Vista and VS2008? Let me know.

Néstor Sánchez aspnet food for thought, from the Dúnadan Raptor : AJAX

Vista, Visual Studio and Dotnetnuke development

Néstor Sánchez
aspnet food for thought, from the Dúnadan Raptor : AJAX