if you have win 7 installed you can do a upgrade. i know many are against this but it can prove to be a big time saver. i did it on one pc and worked really ok. i had to confirm one time and then it went automatically and the whole thing took less than 1 hour. i've been running it for two weeks and is really ok. the exception is some hamachi (vpn software) that does not play nice with w8 yet so does not work. this is however "low level stuff". most of the apps will just run.

you said it better than i did. just give it a chance! don't get pissed because you can't find the start button. it's a lot more than this, a lot more! it really works well on old machines and is fluid. if you don't like the start page then go to desktop. give yourselves time to discover it. learn a few useful shortcuts like "windows + x". my mother in law was a pc iliterate but had to use a pc and by state contract she got a mandriva-linux machine. she has been using linux for several years and she can get her job done with it. she just uses an app and that's it. she did not know what linux was but she was using. my point is that things sometimes just need adjusting to them. really have the intention on making it work. if after that you still don't like it then... well i rest my case. maybe it's not for u. when starting this i was so and so, but have been researching the matter for moths. after using it a while i just have to have it!

the test pc (mom's) was vista... in italian... ugh! my devel machine is win 7, laptop win 7, workstation win 7, file server is fedora. vista got better after service pack 1 and some say it was on par with 7 and it's expected as they are so closely related. i don't know this first hand as i never used it (vista)extensively. so i'm a win 7 guy, visual studio developer. i'm not crazy about the new interface, nor i dislike. it can be useful to some folks after getting used to it. i think it's useful if we are to have a unified windows experience. remember that ppl are resitant to change and some are plain lazy and like to complain. i think the other many changes are definetly worth the hassle. i see win 8 being well accepted and becoming the norm. it will make win 7 obsolete faster than win 7 made win xp.

i just installed win 8 on mom's acer laptop (dual core@1,6ghz, 2gb ram, dog slow hdd). it ran vista and it was unbearable. win 8 just runs decent. it's fluid, starts relatively fast, closes fast. has the option to reset/restore/keep file versions. i just don't get this bitching about the start button and start menu. the new metro stuff has a bit of a learning curve but i think it's quite nice. one can have all it's stuff there: email preview, chat, photos cycling, facebook updates. i won't be using that much but it's ok for people that only do browsing, facebook, email, im etc. just love the way it's fluid even on crap hardware. i can say that i don't like the fact that you have two sets of system config: one from metro and one from desktop. i guess the metro version is needed as tablets can do with a watered down version of config. i believe that one can do most of the config a average person may need to do in the metro version. for the knowledgeable there is always "win + x". learn the few keyboard shortcuts that are really useful like win + x! your life with win 8 will be so much easier. one thing that i really love besides the restore/reset/file versions is storage spaces. that one is something that drove me towards linux to get that working. it took me weeks and moths to set it up ia a accepatble way. there are some speed issues there but the benefits are so great. all in all i'm looking forward to move to windoes 8 my work pc, my wife's (very decent acer timeline) laptop, my linux(fedora/amahi) file server. it's the first time i install a windows before it's available to the masses and i am quite happy. it's not perfect but it it definetly worth the upgrade, for tech heads as well as for "normal" folks.

it's almost never a good ideea to disable the swap file. if you have plenty of ram you could set it to something lower like 4gig in your case (if you are space limited). look in resource monitor at the mem usage of visual studio. having 8gigs of ram should be a good start, the fast ssd definitely helps. if you have 4 cores then i do not see how visual studio kills the machine. usually resharper (i use 5.1) does its scanning at the begining, builds a cache (hogging the cpu for a while) and then it's quite idle. the cache is reused after ide/os restarts. careful not to delete the resharper cache as it will have to rebuild it. also do not go crazy on registry/os cleanners/optimizers etc. also if you have automaticly generated code that is large then you can also exclude that from the analysys. other than that resharper is priceless. take a look at the antivirus you are using as some are renouned to be hogging the cpu. if needed disable live scanning of the projects folder and/or ide process.

20 days and running :) couple of vs2005 instances running, sql server 2005 express with filltext search and many many others. dell rullz!

i already told you. it shows "#error", no other details. i observed one thing. i noted that i could not see any field to use with controls embedded in a rectangle. that might be because the rectangle cannot have any dataset. if for example you add a rectangle and then add a list in it, set a dataset for the list then the controls in the list cand select fields. it's a bit strange but at least it works this way. it can be easily seen that the reportviewer is version 1 and there can be done a lot to improve it, but hey it's better than nothing!

hello all i'm using report viewer and i need to show data. the report viewer uses some object to get data. i declared the fields i need to use in the report, editing them by hand. if i use textboxes imbedded in list or tables then everything looks ok. but if i try to put a texbox in a rectangle then i cannot choose any field from any dataset. if a copy a textbox with an expression in it and put it in a rectangle then the textbox shows "#error". what must i do to be able to use datasets for the controls in a rectangle? what is the purpose of rectangle if i cannot link it to data?