Vista hate

I'm currently suffering Vista to try to install some development software - on the one hand, for work, and on the other, to play with F# and dotNet.

I realised that I need the full version of Visual Studio (the free "Express" version doesn't allow any plugins, by design) so downloaded the 90-day trial version.  It downloads as a .iso file to burn to disk, or to mount.

Cunningly, Vista doesn't have any builtin tools to do anything with a .iso.  Now, I'm getting used to Windows not having basic functionality that you could just take for granted under Linux or Mac, but this is pretty silly for software downloaded from Microsoft itself.

A quick google for "mount iso free vista" came up with a few aborted attempts (XP only, non-free, etc.) and finally, this: Virtual CloneDrive, from SlySoft which so far seems to pleasantly Just Work.

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Jon Harrop
You do not need the full version of VS to use F# for free. You need the freely available VS Shell instead of VS Express, as described here:

http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/f-in-visual-studio-for-free.html

osfameron
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Thanks Jon -- I did try downloading the shell, but got an installer error. I would have persevered, but given that I also had a work requirement (SDK for a mobile device) I went straight to the full version trial :-)
Paul Kinlan
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From what I recall Microsoft recommend Virtual Clone drive for their MSDN subscribers - all the MSDN stuff is ISO's.

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