Making Longhorn 4074 and Whidbey Beta 1work

Longhorn 4074 has been plagued by the fact that it does not officially support any of the Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) CTPs or Betas. There have been a few hacks  (Miguel Jiminez) however to get at least the CTP1 (WinHEC release) working with 4074.

Now the quest was to get Beta 1 working, and - daringly - I started to install Whidbey Beta 1on my VMWare LH 4074 system. Interestingly enough I didn't run into any problems in the beginning.

After the Framework update to 2.0.40607 the system needed to reboot and - not too surprisingly - the explorer.exe failed. After first trying Miguel's explorer.exe.config (in %SystemRoot%) and failing, I came up with this one (actually a copy of the csc.exe.config in %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.31113):

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

<startup>

<supportedRuntime version="2.0.31113" safemode="true"/>

<requiredRuntime version="2.0.31113" safemode="true"/>

</startup>

</configuration>

After this, the explorer shell would work again, and the install resumed.

All other components (VS, SQL 2005, Documentation and LHSDK) installed fine with no problem at all.

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Some additional remarks: only the Indigo templates show up - Avalon etc. disappears like in the CTP version. Also, System.MessageBus is not installed into the v2.0.40607 directory, but using 2.0.31113 works.

Posted at 10:31AM Jul 28, 2004 by beuchelt in General  |  Comments[2]