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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

.NET Framework 3.0 has been released!

VinceX.NET — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:39:00 GMT

.NET Framework 3 News and Announcements

The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here:

Note, if you are using Windows Vista the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components are installed by default.

The Readme for the released version of the .NET Framework 3.0 is available here. If you have a previous CTP installed, please be sure to review the uninstall instructions. If you have questions about installing the .NET Framework 3.0, please post your questions to the .NET Framework Setup Forum.

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