{"id":118,"date":"2007-10-29T07:09:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2007\/10\/29\/Visual+Studio+2008+QuotOrcasquot+VPC+Snafu"},"modified":"2007-10-29T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T13:09:21","slug":"visual-studio-2008-quotorcasquot-vpc-snafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/visual-studio-2008-quotorcasquot-vpc-snafu\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2008 &#8220;Orcas&#8221; VPC Snafu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual PC download of Visual Studio 2008 &#8220;Orcas&#8221; has been great. No install. No chance of corrupting your current Visual Studio 2005 install. It just works and allows you to play with the early bits in a virtual environment. That&#8217;s one of the things that virtualized environments excel at. The Virtual PC images were timebombed to prevent their use in perpetuity. Now for the bad news&#8230; Microsoft originally announced that the timebomb date was March 15, 2008. In actual fact, it is November 1, 2007. After that, you&#8217;ve got a few options as detailed on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2007\/10\/27\/update-on-expiring-vs2008-beta2-vpcs.aspx\">Jeff Beehler&#8217;s blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The VPC will reboot every 2 hours due to the Windows license being expired. Move your data somewhere else or make sure your demos are less than 2 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade the Windows Server 2003 guest OS to use a non-trial license, such as from a MSDN Subscription. (Details in Jeff&#8217;s article above.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these situations is ideal, especially for those without MSDN Subscriptions. Hopefully we&#8217;ll get the next Visual Studio 2008 beta in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual PC download of Visual Studio 2008 &#8220;Orcas&#8221; has been great. No install. No chance of corrupting your current Visual Studio 2005 install. It just works and allows you to play with the early bits in a virtual environment. That&#8217;s one of the things that virtualized environments excel at. The Virtual PC images were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnetgeneral","category-dotnettools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}