I’ve just setup a new laptop running Windows 8 & Visual Studio 11 developer preview.
Hardware
Asus U36SD
Intel Core i7
4GB RAM
160GB SSD
1GB NVidia 520M
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/U36SD/
Installation
It was really easy to get Window 8 up and running. The laptop came with Windows 7 pre installed.
- Boot into Windows 7
- Download 64 bit developer preview (with developer tools)
- Unpack the ISO onto the desktop (I used 7zip)
- Run “Setup.exe”
- It will ask if you want to check internet for latest version – “Yes”
- It will ask what you want to keep – “Nothing”!
In what seemed like less than 5 minutes (I didn’t time it), the machine had rebooted and I was running Windows 8!
Visual Studio 11
It comes pre-installed, so there is nothing to do there.
I’ve create a simple hello world application. I chose to build a “C# metro application”, you are presented with the familiar XAML designer & C# code behind. There is not really much to say here. Visual Studio 11 looks and feels exactly the same as 2010 except there are a bunch of new projects for “Metro applications”. WPF & Silverlight developers won’t have any difficultly slotting into this development environment. Apart from the namespaces everything is very similar.
I’ll post more once I’ve something interesting to talk about…
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