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Installing the Web21C SDK on Orcas

At the same timeI decided to take the plunge and repave my machine. I've been running Vista for ages - not many problems with it, apart from VS2005 just wasn't a good player. So I chose try the new Visual Studio beta beast. I wouldn't normally, but as there is no change to the underlying CLR, hopefully there won't be too much damange to things, especially sharing projects and solutions with other people.

So got everything up and running, and then the .Net SDK installer quit, saying that Visual Studio had not yet been run. Which it had!

Turns out that the one of the safety checks that the installer runs before it starts deploying stuff, is making sure that this registry key exists: Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 - string value UserProjectTemplatesLocation

With VS Orcas that key is deprecated, and the value exists in Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0. Which makes sense.

So I just went and created the value at the wrong location (!) and this fooled the installer to bypass it's safety check, and it carried on.

It did fail again - at the point where it would add components to the toolbox. This is fine, I just add my own tab, and then add components from the file C:\Program Files\BT\BT SDK Release 3.0\Bin\btsdkcomponents.dll.

Et voilà, everything running nicely.

No doubt these bugs will be ironed out, be they BT's or Microsoft's, over time. Orcas isn't live till at least the end of the year, at a guess, so I guess they aren't critical.