Window's Vista is no good for the Developer!
The Good News is that we have Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio available in Beta (so you are on your own with that :>). The bad news is that Visual Studio 2005 will only work, and then with specific problems. Somasegar expalins this a little bit:
"The second thing that I’d like to discuss is our support for Windows Vista, which is due to release in the coming months. Ensuring that VS2005 works well on Windows Vista is a core goal of ours. Visual Studio 2005 SP1 will run on Vista but will likely have a few compatibility issues. We are working with the Vista team to understand those, to provide workarounds where possible and also work on providing you with a set of fixes beyond SP1. We had a choice to make internally – hold up VS 2005 SP1 till we get the fixes in or decouple and ship VS 2005 SP1 as soon as possible knowing that we have to provide fixes for some of those Vista compatibility issues later. Based on your feedback of having SP1 for VS 2005 soon, we decided to separate the two. Visual Studio 2005, with its support for the .NET Framework 2.0 and add-ins to support the .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Vista, and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, provides a first-class development experience for developers."
Another Key point he makes is that the older versions of Visual Studio will not work:
"However, we will not support Visual Studio .NET 2002 or Visual Studio .NET 2003 as development environments on Windows Vista."
Based on some of the early reports of migrating to Vista, I am glad I am getting older and a little more patient with jumping to newer releases. I love implementing the latest technologies and no one was happier to see ASP.NET 2.0 than I am, but this sort of scares me to know my primary development tool(s) may or may not work on Vista. I think Vista will/should be awsome once it is finally released, so I sure hope these issues get resolved ASAP.