[dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev

Doug Steele dbdoug at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 16:46:19 CDT 2009


Hi John:

My development environment is a  15GB VMWare virtual machine.  I installed
Win XP, VS2008 (C# only, I think, but all the help files), SQL Server
Express 2005, and Office 2003.  I have less than 1GB free.

Doug

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> I am going to do a virtual machine to do my development on.  This allows me
> to move it around on an
> external disk between host machines.
>
> My question is what OS would you suggest for the VM for development in
> .Net?  My available choices
> are XP, 2003 and Vista (and maybe Server 2008).
>
> Also how much disk space for the virtual hard disk?
>
>



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