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Orcas VPC TimeBombedBase Missing

I downloaded the Orcas Visual Studio Beta 1 VPC from MSDN yesterday and stitched all of the zip files together, and launched it.  Ran into the dreaded:

“E:\VPC\TimeBombedBase\Base01.vhd” could not be found message.  If you run into the same thing, you can find others with the same issue easily enough.

The solution is to download the VSCTPBase.exe file from here.  Extract the Base01.vhd file and then point to that as the base for your Orcas VPC.  It’s working great for me now.

Published Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:34 AM by ssmith
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# re: Orcas VPC TimeBombedBase Missing

Yes, according to MSDN you are required to download the base Image (VSCTPBase.exe) once per desktop prior to installing Orcas bits or anything for that matter.

In my case, I use VPC 2004 on my laptop that has WinXP Home Edition pre-installed, I had downloaded earlier version of VPC 2004 which are not supported on WinXP Home Edition, but one which is available from the same page on MSDN somehow managed to install, but it crashed very often during boot-up and Orcas installation.

I switched to VMWare (5.5) and installed the WinXP and Orcas bits and now it is running smoothly.

Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:25 AM by Zubair.NET!

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