On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello from my new PC ... my Xmas present to myself: an AMD 6-core with 8GB > of RAM in a "silent" case. I put the parts together on Thursday afternoon > and I am attempting to launch the thing and go experimentally live now, at > 5pm on Sunday. That's how long it takes to build a new development machine. > I was going to smash a bottle of champagne over it, but I needed to drink > the bottle instead. This is my first 64-bit OS as a primary development > machine and I discovered a few irritating traps for the record: > > > > · I had %ProgramFiles% coded in many dozens of batch files and > post-build events, which needed to be smartened to check for > %ProgramFiles(x86)% and change behaviour accordingly.
That one's annoying. You end up needing a variable for both, and use the correct one for x86 and x64 apps respectively, if you want your scripts to operate on both model machines. > > · Some COM components did not appear in dcomcnfg, so after a bit of > suffering I found you have to use comexp.msc /32 to reveal the 32-bit ones > and configure them. That happens for perfmon as well - but I run it as mmc /32 perfmon.msc - I'm guessing that this will work for all the mmc console apps. > > · Some Windows Services wouldn't install until I called > installutil.exe from the Framework v4.0.30319 folder, whereas I was calling > from the v2 folder previously without problems. > > > > Most of my time was wasted on getting ASP.NET and Silverlight apps working > again. It's just a brain-drain chore to get all of the virtual directories > and permissions back to a working state. The rest of the time was spent just > getting the hundred or so solutions to compile again due to dependencies on > 3rd party libraries like ComponentOne, Visifire, WPF Toolkits, Silverlight > toolkits., T4 templates, utility DLLs, etc. These damn things have to be > installed and registered, it's the reverse of knocking over dominoes. > How about IIS (that is, which model it runs in?) -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
