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Let's take a look at how you can actually get your hands on a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and start to work with it. If you don't already have a copy, what you can do is go out to Microsoft's website and I'm going to show you a couple of things but really this video is about Virtual PC because when we talk about getting our hands on a copy of anything nowadays, Virtual PC is an option that you have that you really need to look at. So let's start off. I'm just going to go to the Microsoft home page. That's where I'm at right now and I'm going to do a search for Virtual PC. Now, the reason I'm doing this because you know you how to search for thing but this reason I'm doing it this way is that Microsoft, I know this is going to shock and disillusion, but they're throwing a little confusion in here. Notice there is a new product that's going to come out called Virtual PC 2007 that runs in the Vista world. Let me just bring that up and show it to you and this thing is, they'll talk about how it's supposed to run and help you and so forth but if you go to that page, you'll notice that they're touting this new version of it that runs in Windows 7. OK? And so what I want to show you is not that version, OK, because if you don't have Windows 7, I don't know what all that's going to involve. But if you'll come down here and notice Virtual PC 2007 and to be honest with you, don't know what the differences are at this point but this is the one you want. Just the regular, old, plain vanilla Virtual PC 2007. Now, as of the time I'm making this video, that's the way it is so you'll have to investigate this but you'll, if you download the wrong one it won't work and it won't install so that's the way you know. So anyway, what you're going to do is now download this, depending on the operating system your running and then just click Save File and you will download that. Then once you download it, just kick it off and install it and what you're going to end up with then is a little program that when it runs, it looks like this. So after you install it, right, it's going to show up on your Start Menu and you'll just go click on Microsoft Virtual PC and what's really cool about this thing is that I can create totally new operating systems that will boot up and start. Now watch this. I'm going to boot this one up. If I click on it and say Start, it's going to boot up a total separate machine in this window right here and I'll let you watch this just a second. If you haven't seen this, it's cool. Virtualization is taking over everywhere so this is going to boot up a Windows server and it will run in this window and then I can press the right Alt Key and the Enter Key at the same time and make this thing full screen. But right now I'm just going to kill this thing and say turn that off, what, I want to do that. So what's the big deal here? Well, first of all notice I can click New and I'm not going to all the way through this but this will kick off a wizard that you can now step through and create your own virtual machine and basically sets aside a little area of the hard drive and this is resource intensive here, OK, to run Virtual PC on your machine. You need a lot of RAM, three, four gigabytes probably. You need some disk space because each virtual hard disk because when I start this machine up and it starts in a window, it has its own virtual hard disk or an area of the hard disk that it uses exclusively and it may be six to ten gigabytes. OK? Now, here's what's the big deal with Virtual PC. I'm going to go back out to Microsoft's website and here we are back on Microsoft's website and what I'm going to do now is do a quick search for Visual Studio 2008 VHD or Virtual Hard Disk and when I search this it will tell me if they have any Virtual Hard Disks for 2008 and notice they do. It's the Team System Foundation Server but it's running Visual Studio 2008 and notice it's a Virtual PC image and so if I click on that link, I can chase this down and notice here's a bunch of pieces; six different pieces. I click each one of these and download them and when I get done, notice I'm going to have six parts. They're in the raw files, if you're familiar with the raw files. I'll just simply double click the Part 1. Once I've got them all downloaded, executed, they will join them together and I will end up with like I think a ten gig drive here. Once I've got that going, what that's going to do then is produce a set of files and I'll show you what those look like. So what I've done is I've got me a little FireWire drive and I put all my virtual hard disks on there, OK and so notice this WS3 SQL 2005. We download these things; well, actually I'll show you. When you download the Visual Studio and then you join them all together, this is what you get and then all I have to do is double click on this file right here and it will just open it up in a new window and begin to boot up and Virtual PC will take care of that. There's all kind of cool things you can do with this. I can create an empty Virtual PC using the wizard and then I can just do a capture and I can read an ISO without having to burn it to disk so all I'll tell you is go get Virtual PC, read the Help Files on it. There's tons of stuff on Google out there but anything that you want to learn, the next version of Visual Studio which is 2010, there's a VHD out for that. There's a VHD for Windows 7, there's all kind of cool stuff you can play with. You just download these things. They work for 90, 190 days or something. Then you kill them and no big deal. The other ones, the files I was showing you, the virtual hard disk files, when I'm through playing with one of these, I just click on it. I click Remove and then I go delete the files off my hard drive and it doesn't damage my computer at all. No more dual boots or any of that stuff. So anyway, just wanted you to be familiar with Virtual PC and see what you could do with it. I hope this helps. If I've left you a little confused, just go out to Google and Google virtual PC and start reading.