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

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Sat Mar 14 20:28:35 CDT 2009


...yes but as I said previously, they've renewed it every time for more than 
a year now and almost certainly will continue to do so since you still can't 
install more than one version of ie.

William

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From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:18 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [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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