Recording WebTests with VS2005 Web Test Recorder and IE7 on Vista

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Scenario
If you start Visual Studio 2005 on Vista and create a new web test you may experience that web recordings no longer work.   VS2005 RTM (non SP1) must communicate with the Web Recorder.   You may get an error that says " ... you can only launch the web test recorder from within Visual Studio 2005...".

Solution #1
One way to address this is to start the Visual Studio IDE as Administrator (right-click and choose run as adminstrator)

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta
SP1 Beta currently makes you aware of the requirement to run the VS IDE as administrator and does allow non-administrator web test recordings.