Brian Keller always does a great work releasing a Demo Machine with all the goodness of VS2010 and TFS2010, really useful for making demo and courses. The only drawback is that this machine expires after 6 months, and if you did some customization on it, or prepared some customized hands-on-lab, you usually need to do [...]

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To test dev 11 preview I’ve setup several virtual machines, just to be sure not to ruin my main installation box, since dev 11 is a developer preview and is not a good idea installing pre-beta release on production machine (even if dev 11 preview is really stable). One of the annoying stuff in running [...]

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The Brian Keller’s Virtual Machine with all the goodness of dev11 developer preview is an Hyper-V one, so if you have a windows 7 environment (like me) you cannot use it. A possible solution is using a Virtual Disk converter like the Starwind one (http://www.starwindsoftware.com/download-starwind-converter) that permits you to convert a .VHD hyper-v virtual disk [...]

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