Vista and VS2008 strangenesses

Question

Has anyone noticed odd behaviours when using VS2008 on a Vista box? My main dev machine is a Dell SomethingOrOther running Vista Home Premium which is fully patched as is my VS2008.

Some quirks are just quirks: when running VS2008 the play/pause media controls on my keyboard don't work (a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard ~ a snappy title if ever I saw one...).

Other quirks are more of a problem: a particular VS Solution makes use of a 'utility' class. I edited that class to add another field. No matter how many times I recompile/clean/manually delete the old dlls etc the compiler tells me there's no such field. I check the solution into SVN and check it out on my laptop (XP SP3 with fully patched VS2008) and it all works fine. No idea why.

Anyone found any other oddities?

SAL

Answer 1

have you tried doing things in elevated privileges mode? including reinstalling and all...

Answer 2

I think its VS2008 I am having all sorts of wierd things happen with it but im running xp. Not to the degree that you say where it is messing with volume controls. My wierd things are in VS2008. For example I place a gridview on page 1 go to page 2 then back to page 1 and my gridview will have moved.. Its just buggy.. really buggy

Answer 3

VS2008 runs fine on my Vista. All service packs (both VS & Vista) are installed.

I'm also using a MS keyboard: Laser Desktop 4000.

Answer 4

Have you done any performance profiling, vs is v naughty and puts instrumented dlls etc, in your VS IDE folder. You will then get references only to the instrumented version, not your newly updated DLLs (This keeps happening to me and I forget everytime to clear out the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE folder)