I recently purchased Visual Studio Pro '08 and installed in on Vista HP. It comes with SQL Server Developer, but I disovered I could not get that to install correctly. From what I have discovered on other forums, Vista HP does not expose IIS properly to SQL Server so Reporting Services does not install at all and my passwords are not recognized by SQL Server even though I am the "administrator" on HP. The suggestion was to upgrade to Vista Ultimate (a bitter pill, at best) or downgrade to Windows XP. Visual Studio seems to work fine and lets me work with SQL Server Express, but I need Developer if I'm going to get any real work done.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Better yet - anyone know a solution?