<p>I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing these same issues:</p>

<p>My main dev machine is a Dell, running Vista Home Premium and Visual Studio 2008 - both fully patched / up-to-date.</p>

<p>There are some quirks, such as the play/pause media controls on my keyboard not working while running Visual Studio 2008. These kinds of quirks are annoying, but not really problematic.</p>

<p>A bigger issue is this one:</p>

<p>In one of my solutions, I make use of a class called <code>Utility</code>. If I edit the class to add another field, no matter how many times I recompile/clean/manually delete the old <code>.DLL</code> files, the compiler tells me that there is no such field. If, however, I check the solution into SVN and then check it out on my laptop, which runs Windows XP SP3 with a fully patched Visual Studio 2008 - everything works fine. No idea why.</p>

<p>Has anyone else experienced this, or other problems with this kind of configuration? And if so, do you have any suggestions for how to overcome them?</p>

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