Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure

For a while, I could not figure out why VS2008 didn't show up in the list of apps to share from SharedView. I could share the entire desktop, but that's typically not what I want.
My dev environment for Azure is Vista and Visual Studio 2008 (along with a dozen other tools and SDKs). SharedView is just plain handy for quick collaboration, almost a necessity as well.
There is a simple trick to get them all to work together as expected. Visual Studio on Vista needs to 'Run As Administrator' for the dev fabric to work. Turns out that's the critical detail for SharedView, too. When I started ShareView with 'Run As Administrator', Visual Studio appeared for sharing and I was back to business as usual.

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