VS 2005 download tips
Jeff Key
Thursday, March 25, 2004
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1. Please suspend your transfer or do not start it until mine is complete.  (Give me another couple hours.)
2. Do not try to do a side-by-side install on your main machine.  I haven't tried this with this build, but I've found in the past that side-by-side installs aren't perfected until late in the product cycle and we're still very early.  This isn't something you want to try out yourself -- bad side effects can cause older versions to not function.  Let someone else give it a go first.
3. If you're going to install to a VPC and already have a VPC w/the PDC VS.NET Whidbey, start uninstalling the PDC Whidbey pronto or create a new OS image.  Uninstalling PDC Whidbey in a VPC running at low priority (the default, I believe) can take a long time.
4. And finally, don't expect to get the bits quickly.  You're going to be competing with a bunch of other hungry geeks for bandwidth/resources and your transfer times won't be optimal.  Acknowledge this and be happy that you'll get the bits eventually. 

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