Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 18:28:19 CDT 2009
As I keep saying, put it in User Defined Properties in the FE and BE - cannot be beaten - travels with the MDB and no way of seeing it. Encrypt it too if you want. No Registry, no .ini, no visible signs. Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: 25 August 2009 00:07 To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev You need to be sure whatever you build will install properly in Vista. We ran into problems because we had always written to the Local Machine in the registry. Vista pretends to go along with that but it actually writes to the current user, which can cause a lot of confusion when licenses are applied. We're trying to find a way to use an encrypted file instead to handle licensing now. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:19 PM To: VBA Subject: [dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev 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? Even though I have been using Vista on my main development laptop for a couple of years, I still hate it, so that would not be my first choice. Windows 2003 is a very stable environment but it is also a server OS and I have run into a lot of applications, PerfectDisk for example, which refuse to run on a server OS OR want you to pay hundreds of dollars for something that costs $50 for XP. Which leaves me with XP which is getting long in the tooth. Any yes, I have a copy of Server 2008 which I assume would have the same "is a server OS" issues that 2003 brings with it. Any thoughts on this? BTW I think I am going to bring up a server machine (real hardware) to run the Server 2008 license I have. - _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com