XNA doesn't like Vista
While I was speeding home from NYC on the LIRR, I tried to get Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express to run on my copy of Vista (build 5536). It didn’t work. What’s more annoying is that the problem was at the very end of the install and happened either when it was installing project templates (which is the last thing the installer said it was working on) or when it was trying to install the latest DirectX runtimes. I suspect the latter, or perhaps some other issue. I tried to perform a custom setup but I couldn’t deselect the DirectX portion… nor any portion of the setup for that matter.
It looks like I’ll only be doing WPF on my Vista box.