Building a Vista Development machine
As I said yesterday, once most of the driver issues are resolved, it's time to install everything else. Gigs of it. So here's a list. I'll update as I remember all the stuff I've not needed yet.
[Update: After a whole day of installation, the machine is still not ready. I'll add some more of my tools tonight. Ah if only there was one way to click with a nice checkbox on the software you want to get installed on a machine and let it do its job on its own. A bit like a package manager...]
- Windows Live Writer beta √
- Box.net add-in
- Source code formatter add-in
- Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beta (the 8.0 seems very unstable under Vista) √
- Windows Live Mail Desktop beta √
- Visual Studio Team Suite (I'll talk about my hate relationship with tfs a bit later. Get latest - merge - commit: good. Check out - readonly files crap - try and checkin - no offline mode, pleeeeeeeeeeease). √
- Windows SDK (.net framework 3 sdk really) √
- SQL Express 2005 SP2 CTP √
- SQL Management Studio Express SP2 √
Visual Studio Web Application Project- Visual Studio 2005 SP1 beta √
- Team Foundation Client √
- .net 3.0 Visual Studio 2005 Extensions √
- XML Notepad 2007 √
- Expression Blend beta √
- Snoop √
- GhostDoc 2005√
- TestDriven.net 2.0 √
- Reflector √
- PowerShell 1.0 RC2 X No support for vista RTM...
- WiX
- Snippy √
- VSI Content Installer Powertoys
- CLR Profiler
- Process Monitor √
- Process Explorer √
- PSTools
- DebugView
- Xpath Mania √
- Gmail Notifier
- Skype √
- Adobe Acrobat √
- DPack Visual Studio 2005 Add-ins
- WinMerge (and how to replace the merge tool in TFS)
- CopySourceAsHtml