06 November 2003 02:40
nielsb
Up and Running
I just got home from the US and the PDC and yesterday I managed to get everything installed (Longhorn, Whidbey, Yukon). Yes, Yukon runs just fine on Longhorn and a minute ago I compiled and ran a very simple CLR function from inside Yukon. I did not install Longhorn on a VPC VM, but on a separate partition. I just couldn't stand to have to wait for a couple of hours while the installer tried to determine my hardware.
For now I try not to use the Visual Studio IDE when playing around, but just an external editor (Emacs for me) and compile from the command line. Well, that is not entirely true, I'm using Msbuild to compile and I like it a lot. Just for fun I may decide to create a task which deploys CLR assemblies to Yukon (however it may be a waste of time as I assume that will be in later drops of Msbuild and VS.NET).
I have one problem with my Longhorn installation though: I can not hook up an external monitor from my IBM ThinkPad T40. In other words; the key combination Fn|F7 doesn't work in Longhorn (it works just fine from Win 2003). Anyone else seen this?
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