Installing in a Vista dev environment

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   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 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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gjk2701 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12-April-2007 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Quote Reply Topic: Installing in a Vista dev environment 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 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.

netprofits Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 05-January-2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 341	Quote Reply 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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gjk2701 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12-April-2007 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Quote Reply 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 , as well as on the microsoft site I posted above, and also downloading a new driver and messing with the DSN settings.