Mouseless development environment1/31/2024 ![]() I'm not sure if virtualized instances count in the World's Smallest TFS Server book of records, but maybe now you can see why I was surprised when it worked so well :-) Rather than installing a clean version of TFS (with all the pre-requisites such as Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 etc) I simply dropped in a test VMWare image that I normally use for demos into a beta version of VMWare Workstation 6 that I had installed on the Vista partition of my Mac Mini. This was a little surprising for me, as the machine in question was my Mac Mini.Ĭourtesy of the good folks at here is a comparison between my Mac Mini, Dave Glovers Mini ITX system in a Morex 3888 case and a can of pop. The machine worked a dream, and the demo passed off flawlessly (well, apart from a few presenter glitches, but you can't blame TFS for that). It is dual core with 2GB RAM and 120GB hard disk just sitting idle - so I figured I would put TFS on it. Normally I talk to one running on my laptop - however, I had a spare machine sitting on the desk right next to me that I can connect to over my Gigabit Ethernet. I was a little worried about running live meeting, routing my VoIP phone call and also accessing a test TFS instance over the VPN back into the office all on my 2Mb ADSL connection so I figured I would play safe and talk to a local instance of TFS. We have a bunch of TFS test instances over in our head office in Champaign, but I was doing the webcast from my office in Northern Ireland. On Tuesday I was doing an MSDN webcast demonstrating the Teamprise plug-in. I've created a new category on my blog called "Vista" in which I'll post my trials and tribulations as I use the OS day in day out as a Team System developer.ĭave Glover has held onto the title of world's smallest Team Foundation Server instance since August 2006. Eclipse and Teamprise all installed just fine and worked with no problems so I knew I was good to start work Monday morning. My new hard drive got a 5.0 and my Aero experience got a 5.9 from my NVidia Quadro FX Go1400. I have a Dell Precision M70 and my Windows Experience Index is 4.1 - constrained by the CPU which is a Pentium M 2.26Ghz. The actual install of the OS went very well, by far my easiest install of Vista to date. I started the upgrade on Saturday so that I would be productive again by Monday morning. I took the opportunity to upgrade from a 60Gb drive to a 100Gb drive at the same time as I'm guessing that I'm going to have to use a Win XP virtual PC image quite a lot for the forseeable future so that I can test / reproduce problems with software in XP. My dev machine is vitally important to me so I wanted to make sure I could roll back quickly at any point. So much so that I actually bought a new hard drive for my laptop and installed Vista on it. However, an upgrade before the official consumer launch means that I knew it was going to be painful. It runs great on my Mac Mini so I decided to bite the bullet and see what it is like to run on day in day out. I like the faster start-up times and the additional support for mobile users. ![]() I like the fact I get prompted when things want admin status. Before I start complaining, the reason I installed Vista on my main dev box is because I like it. I got too jealous of everyone with Windows Vista and decided to upgrade myself. Hopefully they'll be a Vista compatible version of iTunes soon. Step 8: Press Next again and confirm that everything works as expected, then save the settings. Check the box "Run this program as an administrator" and press Next. Step 6: Press "Next" on the display settings screen, nothing needed to be changed here Step 5: Select "Do not apply a compatibility mode" and press Next Mine was in "c:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" which is the default install location for iTunes. ![]() Step 4: Type the program location or browse for it. Step 3: Select "I want to locate the program manually" and press Next Click on the link "Use an older program with this version of Windows". Step 1: Press the Windows Globe (or press the windows key on your keyboard) and go to Control Panel. This gave me the change to make my first foray into the world of the Program Compatibility Wizard. It only seems to need to run as administrator to get iTunes to Sync with my iPod, but as that is the only reason I run iTunes it is kinda handy. Anyway, to get iTunes 7.0.2 to work correctly on Windows Vista RTM, I had to run the application as an administrator. I am very nearly at the point of purchasing a new MP3 player so I am ready for any excuse to tip me over the edge. So, next on my list was to get iTunes working so that I can easily feed my podcast addiction.
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