Using Windows 7 for Development

Upgraded dev machine from Vista Ultimate 74-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. So far, so good. Some notes:

• Visual Studio 2008 could not start Shipper 3 in a debugger. Had to register dte80.dll, dte80a.dll, dte90.dll, and dte90a.dll (search web for "regsvr32 dte80.dll" for details).
• Visual Studio 2008 would not build deployment project (setup) until I registered mergemod.dll (search web for "regsvr32 mergemod.dll" for details).
• Virtual PC 2007 is not supported. Had to convert all of my virtual machines to Windows Virtual PC. Not hard, but tedious. Uninstalled Virtual Machine Additions and installed Integration Features on each VM. Shutdown no longer asks if I want to merge undo disk. I miss that.
• IE8 would crash when I visited any of several different pages (techmeme, msdn, etc). I suspect something in the cache from Vista was causing the crash. After resettings IE and restarting Windows, the crashes went away.

Now testing Shipper 3.5 on Windows XP SP3 (32-bit only), Vista (32-bit only), and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).

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