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Topic: Installing in a Vista dev environment

Posted By: gjk2701
Subject: Installing in a Vista dev environment
Date Posted: 29-March-2008 at 9:11am

Hi,

I've recently upgraded from my XP machine to a new Vista machine, and am having trouble getting my development install of ProductCart running again. I've followed the Microsoft solution at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=926939 - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=926939 however I am still unable to connect to the database properly. Has anyone been successful getting pcart working on Vista? If so, any tips would be much appreciated.

thanks.

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Posted By: netprofits
Date Posted: 29-March-2008 at 10:08am

I'll be blunt...you're best bet is to drop Vista and go back to XP. We bought a new machine with Vista and had so many problems with almost all our development tools that we ended up scrapping Vista altogether. I'm sure it's a nice OS for the average user but in our experience it does not work well for developers.

We also have a development server which is running Windows 2003 Server and SQL 2000 so we just use that for any development sites we work on. It works great.

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Posted By: gjk2701
Date Posted: 29-March-2008 at 1:03pm

Thanks netprofits. I'm determined to give Vista a go though, headaches and all.

For others, I did finally get it working, by following the instructions here: http://forums.iis.net/p/1108980/1703486.aspx - http://forums.iis.net/p/1108980/1703486.aspx , as well as on the microsoft site I posted above, and also downloading a new driver and messing with the DSN settings.