Installing Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition

Wow! I am impressed. It’s a work-around but well worth the learning experience. After working 7 days on my 2 year old note book with no success installing the SQL express component; I discovered
Microsoft’s Virtual PC, a developers dream.

My Dell system: 1.6 Pentium M processor, 1GB of memory, 60GB disk

1. WinXP as host with lots of stuff loaded.
And with Microsoft’s Virtual PC, I can simultaneously run all three:
2. Visual Studio Express on WinXP
3. WinXP Media Center Edition

Response time is excellent, can mouse, cut and paste across systems, lots to learn and explore. I am impressed!

Thank you,

…Sam