I noticed that my last posts were about Vista 2005 SP1 on Vista. I had a bunch of trouble with that experience. I'm sure that the rough edges were polished out later on, but my initial experience could have been better.

I've been running Visual Studio 2008 (AKA 'Orcas') B1 and now B2 on Vista SP1 builds to write Silverlight v1.1 apps. I've got to say that the experience has been great. A bunch of work has been done to support UAC (the fundamental issue) by the VS and .NET Framework teams, and this on its own will be worth a big part of the price of admission.

I've also been building/debugging DasBlog (the blog software used to run this site) in VS 2008 B2 on Vista SP1 with IIS7. IIS7 is a pretty big change. After a few tweaks, help from the ASP.NET/IIS team and a bunch of help from the DasBlog team, I got it working. See Scott's post and post for more info.

There was only one problem in VS 2008 B2 w/IIS7 integration. That issue will be fixed in the next public release.

All in all, it's great to see a quality product, one that I'll be using a lot, coming from the VS team.