In the last couple of days Microsoft released Community Technology Preview’s of the next interation of the Express development packages (Codename Orca) for those of us that like to live or try out the bleeding edge of stuff. Now being a glutton for punishement I figured what hell and downloaded the VB.NET package for a go around.

Well downloading is as about as far I can get because every attempt to actually install the package results in it quitting at the point of trying to install .NET 3.5. I can’t get any further and and explanation as to why it is puking on install at this point doesn’t exist anywhere. I should note that I am still running Vista RC2 so I don’t know if that is the problem or not.

Any MS type geniuses out there that just might read WinExtra and know why this is happening or any work-around please feel free to pass the explanation along. In the meantime this just pisses me off and means I won’t have anything to play with today

Conversation Tags: Microsoft, Orca, VB.NET, MSDN, development, NET 3.5