Installing the Apr 23 NETMF + Gadgeteer package from Support – GHI Electronics does not work on Windows 8 (consumer preview). During install, I get an unhandled exception, setup exits.
Given that Win8 hasn’t been released yet or even in beta, you should not be surprised. Check back after it’s been released 
Welcome to the community!
indeed. pre-release stuff. Not surprised, just bummed. It’s not like “Windows” is much different other than the new “WinRT” win8 API’s, which this doesn’t use or depend on.
Hi neoscoob,
I have just downloaded the above package and installed all ok on Win8…
Cheers
Justin
You are talking about Win 8 + VS2010 or Win 8 + VS11 ?
Win 8 + VS2010
wow, in this case, I’m glad I posted, and I need to backtrack what went wrong here. Just to be clear, is it VS Pro or the free Visual C# that you loaded successfully?
ok, I found the trick.
When I ran this, I get the new Win8 “UAC” messages. In the effort of making an easy thing more easy, it became more difficult - they didn’t think this through. When it warns you that your computer is protected, it offers you an “OK” button. That doesn’t mean you are ok with the thing you are trying to run, it means you are ok with the fact that it was BLOCKED.
You must click “More Info” and click Run Anyway. See attached pics.
Technically, this was a user error on my part. While it may be intuative for a new user of Windows, it’s completely non-intuitive for long time users IMHO. Thanks Stevesi @ Microsoft. Real great way to get away from the simple ok/cancel dialog, or the yes/no mentality when you did something OPTIONALLY “helpful” for me.
Anyway, Gadgeteer is indeed up and running on Win8 + Visual C# running inside a VM! Connects and deploys fine from the VM too. Super!
@ neoscoob - This may not be as convenient, and there may be a bit of a learning curve, but 2 things to keep in mind:
[ol]The dialogs and behavior you’re seeing are more secure by default, and the given that many users simply click OK without thinking, that’s arguably a very good thing.
We’re still talking about the consumer preview…so you’re not necessarily looking at the final behavior, etc.[/ol]
- Had they used ONLY the 2nd dialog (defaulting to Don’t Run), that is plenty secure, [em]AND[/em] much more intuitive.
- Having just left Microsoft and knowing the status of Windows 8 like I do, I would be highly shocked to see this dialog any different in the final release. (and in fact, being so familiar with MS stuff is why I am even more frustrated that this new dialog design threw me off in the first place)
But your points are valid, understandable. 
In any case, I’m glad I got things up and working!