My job purchased a number of Workstations for the few developers that we have. The machines are Dell's with 8 processors in them. The machines came pre-installed with windows Vista on them and instantly became a nightmare for running legacy applications and developing on.
Since the license purchase included Windows XP, I hit a button and XP was installed on the machine. The machines that followed came with XP pre-installed, thank God!
Anyway a few years have passed, the database Admin still has Vista on his machine and for a number of years was unable to get security updates from our WSUS server until we later purchased a license from Microsoft and upgraded.
I'm still running windows XP on my development machine and seem to run into problems developing for Windows Phone 7. Since Microsoft officially retired XP back in April of 2009 there is no support. I searched the Microsoft blogs and the Microsoft employees seem to be in a rage with those who are running XP and insist on getting support for Windows Phone 7 development on the OS.
One person on the web posted a solution and I am testing it to see if it works. Here is what they say:
Workaround for installing Windows Phone 7 CTP on Windows XP:
1.Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh
2.Extract the contents of the setup package by running vm_web.exe /x and choosing a path to extract to
3.Go to the folder you extracted to in step 2 and open the file baseline.dat in notepad
4.Look for the section named [gencomp7788]
5.Change the value InstallOnLHS from 1 to 0
6.Change the value InstallOnWinXP from 1 to 0
7.Save and close baseline.dat
8.Run setup.exe /web from the folder you extracted to in step 2
What I did was right click on the vm_web.exe file I got from microsoft and extracted that into a folder.
I then right click and choose New > Text Document and opened that document.
I entered setup.exe /web in the first line and renamed the file setup.bat and double clicked the file to launch the install.
We will see if it works.
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