Running Visual Studio 2010 on Win 7 inside XP Mode
I outlined in an earlier post how XP Mode gives Windows 7 users a very easy way to try out beta software without worrying that the main operating system install might be messed up.
Here is a screenshot of VS 2010 Beta 2 running on my Win7 desktop. Notice that the only way to tell is that it has the blue Windows XP bar at the top instead of the Win 7 Aero bar like Task Manager in front of it.
Yeah, I get that. My only thought was that you might miss out if you want to play with some Win7 specific features – new IIS version, multitouch, taskbar, etc. Hansleman’s got a great post on streamlining the build of a reusable Win 7 VHD.