Setting up dev environment in Vista

Things I have done in Windows Vista while creating my development environment.

1. Installed the SP1.
2. Disabled the Business Contact Manager in Outlook with Business Contact Manager.
Reference : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903094

Thanks goes to my co-developer Chatura for providing me the link.

3. Installing VS 2005 and VS 2008 side by side

First install VS2005 and then VS2008

Step 1 : Installed VS 2005 ( Team server architect )
Step 2 : Installed VS2005 SP1
Step 3 : Installed VS2005 Vista SP
Step 4 : Installed VS2008

4. Installing SQL Server 2005 developer edition

Step 1 : Run the owc11.exe

This will install the MS Office web components 2003

Step 2 : Make sure to remove the express edition ( MS Sql Server Mobile )

I did install without removing it and finally intallation failed. :(

Once again thanks goes to Chatura for helping me to trouble shoot the issue.

Step 3 : Install SQL Server 2005 dev edition

5. Installing Nant

Step 1 : Extract the nant bundle into a folder
Step 2 : Add the Nant.exe path into the environment variables (path).

6. Adding the Nant Addin into VS2005

Step 1 : Extract the zip contents into [User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins
Step 2 : Start VisualStudio
Step 3 : In Tools>Addin Manager check NAntAddin and Startup columns
Step 4 : Now activate the Add-in in Tools>NAntAddin
Step 5 : The Add-in should now be visible (you can dock it and resize as desired)

So far so good, I need to see how the box going to perform when I start developing again in full throttle.