Visual Studio 2005 professional ​compatibili​ty issues

I know that the VS 2005 SP1 has compatibility issues with vista.
Is it just me, or does anyone have a problem running VS 2005 professional on Vistal ultimate?

It simply says that it could not create application data folder.


Thanks in advance,
Sashidhar K

Seen this?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

Yea certain actions will cause problems in VS.NET 2005 under Vista.  You can get around a lot of them by right clicking on the shortcut to VS.NET and using "Run As Administrator".  I know, this is a bad practice.  But it's a necessary workaround until they release the update for Vista.

What really bothers me is that WCF apps will throw exceptions unless they are run as administrator.  Perhaps they need elevated permissions but there should be a better way to handle that than throwing an exception (UAC prompt?)?  Although I am rather new to WCF and there could be specific ways you have to program against it so that it avoids the need for administrator.

Actually, that particular problem appears to be an installation issue.
Aaron Stebner talks about it here.

The steps he gives for repairing the installation are:

1. Click on the Start menu, choose All Programs, then Accessories
2. Right-click on the item named Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator
3. Click continue to launch an elevated command prompt
4. Run "%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup