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In keeping with tradition, I've sacraficed my personal productivity and am running a beta operating system that's giving me (thankfully few) headaches.
A couple weekends ago I put together an x64 computer so I could give the XP Pro x64 Edition a spin. There have been surprisingly few bumps in the road, but some are worth noting:
My awesome printer isn't supported and probably never will be. (x64 happily runs x86 apps, but needs x64 drivers.)
VS.NET 2003 compiles things, but won't run them. Something about the debugger not being installed correctly.
VS 2005 won't install.
VPC doesn't work on x64 yet (or so I've heard), so I can't easily get around any of the above problems.
I can work around #2 for 1.1-related stuff (ie. running w/o symbols), but not being able to play with .NET 2.0 is a bummer. Tonight I added a little doodad to the unfinished Snippet Compiler 2 so it will work[1] on 32 and 64 bit machines running 1.x and 2.0 frameworks. If you're in the same boat as me, the x64 .NET 2.0 beta 1 SDK does install correctly, so SC can do generics, anonymous methods and all of that other fun stuff.
The SnippetCompiler 2.0 December Technology Preview should run on every computer that has the .NET Framework installed, and you can download it here.
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