So it seems in the near future we would be developing our favourite FWH / (x)Harbour applications from VisualStudio IDE 
Antonio
I am trying to follow along and duplicate your install .. I think I took the links out of sequence ..
1) Downloaded and installed the redistributal shell ( integrated mode ) .. last link you posted
2) then the VS 2008 sdk v1
Upon starting the sdk install it told me I had to ( already ) have the VS studio 2008 Standard edition ..
Tell me what you did and how you got your package of links to load properly ??
Rick Lipkin
Hello Rick,
First I installed vs_ideredist.exe. This makes a exe file in a new directory.
Then I installed this exe from this new directory: vside.enu.exe.
Takes some time and I think I had to start this exe twice.
First the exe installs framework.
Thirdly I run the VsSDK_sfx.exe.
Regards,
Otto
Rick,
Please do as Otto tells you, and then try to run Visual Studio once installed:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Hello Antonio,
what are your tests with VSX say? Do you think this could be a solution?
Best regards,
Otto
Otto,
Its very powerfull, but very complex also But I don't worry about that.
My worries are that I have already detected an important bug, that I plan to report to Microsoft and hopefully they may fix it soon. I may be wrong and it may not be a bug but something that need some extra work:
I create a dialogbox and select to save it as a RC file from the main pulldown menu, and it does not get saved as a RC. Instead it saves it as a RCT file again
Otto and Antonio
I will try again tonight with the install .. just curious on the Windows forms editor .. did you try to edit or open a legacy form ( .rc ) and see what VS will do with it ??
Rick Lipkin
Rick,
Its opening the RC files as text files, not as resources. Though curiously it has associated its icon to the RC files, meaning that they can be managed from the IDE
We may be missing something. We should locate a technical forum where to post some questions about the Visual Studio IDE and how to properly configure it
Question already posted:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPo ... D=1mode=1
Hopefully we get some feedback from MS
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James,
Thanks for the info. I have already reviewed several websites, blogs, videos, etc. but our first requirement is to know if it supports RC files.
Aparently it does, as the options for opening and saving RCs are there, but they don´t work 
