Orcas CTP on Vista issue

VinceX.NET — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:14:00 GMT

For the first message of my new life, I have an issue with Orcas CTP on Vista:

I know I supposed to use Orcas CTP in a VPC but I have only 2GB on my vista laptop and it's very paintfull to not have enough ram for both Vista and the VPC.

So, I decided to install Orcas on my laptop directly; I did it many time before with success.

Before I leave MS, I downloaded a build of Orcas (20323.00) and I had to patch it to make it work on Vista, otherwise, I got an error message :

"Error 1 Required file 'alink.dll with IAlink3' could not be found"  when compiling a WPF app. project.

I found the patch internally following a mail recommendation:

Windows6.0-KB110806-x86-ForTestingPurposesOnly.exe and I installed on many PCs with success until now;

today I got an message: "ERROR: The test signed hotfix you are trying to install has expired. Please contact Microsoft Support to get a newer version"

Someone can tell me if a new version of the Patch exists or if a more recent Orcas s build has been fixed to resolve this issue ?

if yes, where can I find it ?

Thanks very much in advance

- Vince

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