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My Wrox Blox Books - Now on Amazon!

by Damien White 1/30/2009 10:00:23 AM

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com.  Pretty cool stuff!  They were listed up there before, but weren't available directly through Amazon until now.  For a full description and the table of contents of each, just click on the Amazon links at the bottom of this post.  In addition, here are my previous announcements:

Both books are good guides for anyone using ASP.NET AJAX in either Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 using .NET 2.0 (with the AJAX Extensions) or .NET 3.5.

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How To: Install Windows 7 on VirtualBox 2.1 – Fix Sound, Video and Network adapter

by Cedric Boudoya 1/20/2009 1:44:07 PM

On my previous blog posts, I covered the installation of VirtualBox 2.1 and I went over the step-by-steps to create a virtual machine to host Windows 7.

I will now go over the details of fixing the sound, video and network adapter. 

If you go to Start > Right-click on My Computer > Manage (or run mmc), then you will get the content management window. You should notice that two devices are not properly installed (Base System Device, Ethernet Controller).

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How To: Install Windows 7 on VirtualBox 2.1 – Installation details

by Cedric Boudoya 1/20/2009 1:42:59 PM

On my previous blog posts, I cover the installation of VirtualBox 2.1 and I go over the step-by-steps to create a virtual machine to host Windows 7.

I will now go over the details to install Windows 7.

  1. You should have the VirtualBox setup and started the virtual machine by clicking on the start button.
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    Click OK.
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How To: Install Windows 7 on VirtualBox 2.1 - Create a virtual machine

by Cedric Boudoya 1/20/2009 1:41:40 PM

Today, I will go through the step by step instructions to setup VirtualBox for Windows 7.
First of all, You will need to install VirtualBox. Follow my VirtualBox installation guide from a previous blog post if you need the step-by-steps.

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How To: VirtualBox 2.1 Installation Guide

by Cedric Boudoya 1/20/2009 1:38:23 PM

In this step-by-step guide, we will install VirtualBox 2.1.  This article is the first in a multi-part series on installing Windows 7 beta on a VirtualBox virtual machine.  Let's get started...

  1. Get the virtual box binaries  and its source code from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
  2. Launch VirtualBox-2.1.0-41146-Win_x86.msi
  3. Click Next
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