[AccessD] MSDN cds online

John Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu May 29 11:37:55 CDT 2003


Thanks for this.  I am downloading now.

For some odd reason I am only getting about 180 kbytes / sec today!  This
could take awhile.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:25 PM
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Subject: [AccessD] MSDN cds online


I saw this in Woody's Office Watch and I thought some of you might be
interested...

from WOW 8.18:

6. BURNING MSDN CDS
Last month I told all of you programmers that Microsoft has posted the April
2003 MSDN CDs, and you can get all three of them free for the downloading.
Those CDs include an enormous amount of information on Visual Studio 2003 -
it's the required reference for those of you willing to make the leap from
VBA to VB (or C) .NET.

The CD images are at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-8045-56619af
95835/qtr40enud1.img

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-8045-56619af
95835/qtr40enud2.img

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-8045-56619af
95835/qtr40enud3.img

One teensy-tiny problem. The CDs are in ISO image format - so-called .IMG
files - and you may have problems burning those files to a CD.

WOWser TP writes: "To get the files to CD you need a program like "undisker"
found at http://www.undisker.com. This software will open and view the
contents much like standard Zip file software and write the contents to the
CD drive. I only used the time limited shareware version of "undisker" but
the software worked very well and I am considering the purchase of the full
version.

One thing you will need to know is the Volume label that needs to be on the
CD. I am pretty sure that it is the name of the file without the extension.
Without the correct volume name the CD's will not load."


from WOW 8.19:

7. BURNING .IMG CDS
Last week I told you about WOWser TP's travails trying to get the downloaded
April 2003 MSDN CD images burned to CD. He used Undisker, and it worked
fine.

WOWser IW notes that he was able to burn the MSDN CDs by simply changing the
file name extension from .IMG to .ISO, and then using Nero (on a Windows
2000 machine). WOWser RC did the same thing and had no problem with Windows
XP's native file burner.


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