Last night I got Windows 7 Release Candidate up and running in VMWare on my Macbook Pro.  So far so good, I have Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express installed and they seem to working fine.

I used Disk Utility to delete my existing FAT32 partition where I was running Windows XP, and then create a new partition. I then ran Boot Camp to create a new FAT32 partition (32GB), but once the Windows 7 installer kicked in it informed me that Windows 7 only runs on NTFS.  At that point you can just format and continue.  Once Windows 7 is installed, Boot Camp kicks in (Windows 7 warns you that it doesn't think the software is compatible - I ignored the warning).  All the Boot Camp drivers installed without incident.

I then attempted to connect VMWare to my new Windows 7 partition, but I found I had to first delete the /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm and then create a new virtual Machine .

I found these instructions to be helpful.

I've been working on a new theme for this site, and I've been running Visual Studio 2008 and explorer windows through VMWare's Unity features, which allows the window to "float" amongst the rest of the OS X windows.  Pretty neat -- although I noticed that the VMWare window wouldn't work when placed in another spaces desktop area.

I downloaded Distant Shores, A Visual Studio Color Scheme by Tomas Restrepo.

It makes my code look so beautiful...

The site has been down since December, mostly because I tried to change hosting providers, and got busy.  I had tried moving the site to ubiquity hosting, but couldn't seem to get blogengine.net going with mono.  I have signed up with discountasp.net, and got the site back up in less then an hour.  During this time I have also been dealing with my previous host, fluidhosting, who have been trying to extort money out of me -- one of these situations you don't want to get into.  I've heard hosting providers tend to have a shady reputation, but fluidhosting are downright crooked.  But discountasp.net was recommended to me, and so far they've been great.

Anyway, looks like my site theme has defaulted to pink with butterflies, how cute -- maybe I'll keep it like this for a while.

Finally, I'm writing this post on my new Macbook Pro, which is the greated laptop I have ever owned.  I've got a Boot Camp FAT32 partition with Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008 installed -- I plan on getting my feet wet with C# 3.0, and .NET 3.5.  More one this later.