After downloading Whidbey beta for nearly two days <g>, it finally was ready to install. The install itself was smooth – no errors and only took an hour and half. Geez - *only* an hour and a half – I hadn’t even meant it sarcastically <g>. I installed into a clean XP Virtual PC session that I have stored away and install this stuff onto. No previous VS installation of any sort, only IIS, SQL Server and few utility applications I need.
Install seemed OK, but on startup I immediately get errors that the various smart device packages did not install. Great – that was one of the things that I need to work seeing that I’m doing a session on this stuff at DevTeach. Murphy is looking out for me apparently…
Creating a Smart Device project works but as soon as a form is created the designer crashes. What are those smart device guys doing? This stuff has not worked in any build or CTP yet???
Ok, I have other things to work on… So I created a new ASP.NET project and started with a database connection… Nope – doesn’t like that either because it has problems getting past the Sql Server Mobile Edition driver problem. I can’t connect to any database in Server Explorer except create new ones or use file based SQL 2005 databases (which I don’t want to mess with right now).
This is kind of a sad showing – with all of these requirements of specific versions of this and that just to run and then have a failure because some unimportant side component is missing is really lame.
Aaargh… I guess I’ll try to re-register everything. I wonder if this is a problem because of the VPC installation…
I was able to get my small app that I’d started putting together with the February CTP running so that’s encouraging at least…
It’s time to get some sleep I guess – this is not helping me get out of the pissy mood I’ve been all day. <g> Ah, but there’s waves later today. Something…