[AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET)

>From that link:
"This VPC image will expire in April 2009."

If you do want to use it however, note the following from VirtualBox Help:
"Finally, VirtualBox also fully supports the VHD format used by Microsoft"

Cheers,
Stuart

On 14 Mar 2009 at 20:10, William Hindman wrote:

> ...been that way for more than a year ...there is a separate link to dl the 
> right vhd
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en
> 
> ...the secret to this is that ms is providing a vhd with win xp or vista AND 
> ie6, 7, or 8 now to web developers to allow testing
> against multiple browser environments ...since you can't run more than one 
> version of ie on the same system. they came
> up with this backdoor ...but the bottom line is that its a fully functional 
> vhd with the os and ie already installed and you can use
> it for whatever you please ...and anyone can dl and use it if they know 
> where to look.
> 
> ...and of course ms isn't broadcasting this everywhere ...you only find it 
> by looking for ways to test both versions of ie on your system :)
> ...not a word or link to this on either the vpc or their regular vhd site :)
> 
> William
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:54 PM
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 
> Express&VB.NET)
> 
> > William,
> >
> > Interesting.  Is that a recent promotion?  When I downloaded VPC last
> > year there wasn't any OS that came with it.
> >
> > Steve Erbach
> > Neenah, WI
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, William Hindman
> > <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
> >> ...its free ...and it comes with a vhd with win xp or vista already
> >> installed so you don't have to buy another copy ...the free os is a 
> >> limited
> >> time but they've renewed it every time it was about to expire so far.
> >>
> >> William
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "Max Wanadoo" <max.wanadoo at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:57 AM
> >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008
> >> Express&VB.NET)
> >>
> >>> William,
> >>> Is virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft free or not. The site says "free
> >>> download"
> >>> but it is unclear whether that means that after installing it, I then 
> >>> get
> >>> only xyz days to use it.
> >>>
> >>> If not free, what would you recommend?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Max
> >>>
> >
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