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From: DanS on 21 Feb 2010 08:29
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA.........Is this a valid folder for Win2K thru Win7?

(How can I be sure the program works thru Vista & 7 when we don't have a PC
w/Vista or 7 on it ?!?!.....(Rhetorical))


TIA,

DanS
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 21 Feb 2010 17:24
DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:

>CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA.........Is this a valid folder for Win2K thru Win7?
>
>(How can I be sure the program works thru Vista & 7 when we don't have a PC
>w/Vista or 7 on it ?!?!.....(Rhetorical))

If you are a developer then you should be testing your software using
Virtual PC, VMWare or similar.

Tony
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From: Dee Earley on 22 Feb 2010 06:15
On 21/02/2010 13:29, DanS wrote:
> CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA.........Is this a valid folder for Win2K thru Win7?

Yes.

> (How can I be sure the program works thru Vista& 7 when we don't have a PC
> w/Vista or 7 on it ?!?!.....(Rhetorical))

You can't.

--
Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk)
i-Catcher Development Team

iCode Systems
From: Nobody on 22 Feb 2010 10:36
"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote in message
news:Xns9D26566F3B45Ethisnthatroadrunnern(a)216.196.97.131...
> (How can I be sure the program works thru Vista & 7 when we don't have a
> PC
> w/Vista or 7 on it ?!?!.....(Rhetorical))

You can download a trial version of Windows 2008 Server and install it in a
VM.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx

Virtual PC: Free, but only supports 32 Bits guests, can run on 32 or 64 Bits
hosts.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx

VMWare Server: Free. Web based with plug ins. Supports both 32 or 64 Bits
guests, even if the host OS is 32 Bits, as long as the CPU is 64 Bits and
supports hardware virtualization.
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=server20&lp=1


From: Schmidt on 22 Feb 2010 12:06

"Nobody" <nobody(a)nobody.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:O6QZkT9sKHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> "DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote in message
> news:Xns9D26566F3B45Ethisnthatroadrunnern(a)216.196.97.131...
> > (How can I be sure the program works thru Vista & 7 when we don't have a
> > PC
> > w/Vista or 7 on it ?!?!.....(Rhetorical))
>
> You can download a trial version of Windows 2008 Server and install it in
a
> VM.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx
>
> Virtual PC: Free, but only supports 32 Bits guests, can run on 32 or 64
Bits
> hosts.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx
>
> VMWare Server: Free. Web based with plug ins. Supports both 32 or 64 Bits
> guests, even if the host OS is 32 Bits, as long as the CPU is 64 Bits and
> supports hardware virtualization.
> https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=server20&lp=1
>
To add to the Pile, my preferred "Virtualizer" is VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others
There's an OpenSource-edition, but also a (free for
personal use) closedsource one (the closed-source
Version with enhanced USB-support and other
"goodies").

It can work against VMWare-Disks natively and
the performance is also great (somewhat better
even than VMWare-Server) - new version 3.1.4
was released just a few days ago...
Most important feature, compared with the free
VMWare-Versions - branched SnapShots:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/12/29/virtualbox-branched-snapshots-tutorial/


Olaf


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