I am please to see this issue. Wish that I had it last Semtember when I switched to Vista Utlimate.  Today I wish this was on painlessly applying Vista SP1. On my laptop it went en easily in about one hour.

On my Desktop/Development system it failed with a meaningless error message.
MS's suggesting was that I "upgrade" from my original DVD to refresh all file images (3 hours), then apply SP1.  SP1 failed to shutdown on one of the reboots and the whole SP1 process restarted. It succeeded this time (3 more hours)

Within 30 minutes my system had frozen twice. This is a symptom I had not had before.  It took me 2 tries to download your videos.

Vista is such fun.

/DaveS

I just watched the issue 31 videos. Vista SP1 froze twice. I have a few comments, suggestions and a possible correction:

• The method of authentication for the SQL server can be either windows or mixed. The default DNN install uses windows mode.
  
• In IIS you can set the order of the default documents to have "Default.aspx" at the top, so you don't have to mess with it each time that you make a new DNN installation or portal
  
• You didn't menton installing IIS on the system and which options that you must install. As I recall when I did this last Sept this was the hardest part. Maybe you could add a little in this area.
  

As usual you did a great job. It was good for me to walk thru this again in my mind. Today I almost never do a fresh DNN install. I seem to be "cloning" my production system on my localhost and testing with it.

I use Virtual PC running XP-Pro to test my web site with IE6. What overkill. The question I have about Virtual PC is about the OS licenses.  Does MS want 6 Vista licenses if I run 5 Virtual PC's on my Vista system? I had XP-Pro serial numbers from a couple of old boxes, so it wasn't an issue for my simple usage.

/DaveS

Hi Dave,

The fun of Windows eh?!

Virtual PC - yes I think if you look around on the main windows website, there is an enterprise licence for vista, which is specifically aimed at multiple installs of vista on virtual PCs.

It may also be the same WindowsXP-Pro volume license we had when I worked to DEC and Compaq which was good for 50,000+ installs and cost two arms and a leg

Almost makes you wish that DNN ran on Linux. Oh I almost forgot, on Linux I could run multiple versions a each browser and not need a virtual install foe each.

/Dave

yeah prob will be a lot - I read the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...fault.mspx

Can you setup Linux in a virtual environment in windows? - you would only need 1 virtual environment then for testing?

I haven't looked at Linux but was thinking about having a look as I want to setup a media server at home which streams videos, wavs etc via wireless to the tv, hi-fi etc. - I know its going off topic, but do you have any experience with that?!

To be honest I have looked at Linux much lately, however I did spend 20 years doing Unix software development. 

I too was think that I might try Ubuntu Linux in a virtual environment. I found some instructions for setting it up.  As for media server I have never used it and wish it wasn't part of my Vista systems. I'm tone deaf, don't listen to music and am happy with the Tivo for my TV, but not with the available programing.

/Dave

I just purchased a subscription for Issue 31 because after purchasing a new laptop, vista ultimate, and VS 2005 almost a year ago...I have been unable to get the development environment working. As a result, instead of continuing to code my own modules I've had to hire people to do it. That's not been fun.

So I went through your tutorial and on the first video we were told to put "http://localhost/" into IE and in the video it shows a nice IIS7 screen. On my laptop, however, I get a HTTP 404.

I need some help getting IIS to work on my machine. I "uninstalled" it and "reinstalled" it on this machine and nothing changes. I remember deleting the "default" website that came up in IIS and I can't figure out how to get that back. Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't bring that default website back.

I have no CD for Vista Ultimate...I upgraded the one that was on this machine when I bought it over the internet.

Any suggestions on how to continue?

Outstanding!

Well I got it working for the most part. I would be very pleased to see a tutorial made on using Visual Studio 2005 on a Vista Machine (setting up the VS 2005 for best practices) and then creating a simple module. This would be a very useful tutorial.

Glad to hear you got it working,

Thanks,

The instructions in the tutorial certainly work to create a working DNN site, but I have one question: Where is the database? When I open SSMSE I don't see ANY database other than master, model, etc.

The database is in the folder App_Data within your DotNetNuke installation files - you will need to attach the database if you wish to view the data in the tables etc. using SQL Server - for info on this have a look at:
How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website

I was able to successfully install a new install of DNN to Vista, but I am struggling to restore a backed up copy of a live site... I have the 'localhost\mysite' portal alias site setup, but when I execute it redirects to the live website. If I delete the portal aliases from the 'PortalAlias' table that are not '..localhost\..' it does not redirect to the live website, but returns a DNN installation screen as if there had been an error and provides a link to "return to site".

Any suggestions?

it sounds as though you have done the correct steps. I would double check

IIS points to the correct DNN installation folder with the correct localhost address
In SQL Server a user has been added to the security folder in your attached DotNetNuke database
Both database connection strings in your web.config file

Following the videos, I successfully installed Virtual PC, Vista, IIS and SQL Server Express and DotNetNuke 5.1.1. I am very pleased and appreciate the videos. Question: now that I have a DNN domain running on localhost in the virtual PC, how can I view the website on one of my other computers on my network? I tried http://ip_address_of_VirtualPC/DomainName and it doesn't work. TIA

You will need to make sure that ip_address_of_VirtualPC/DomainName is one of your PortalAliases.

Thanks Joe. That fixed it.