SSW Update - Do you turn on undo disks for testing purposes?
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By default, Virtual PC will not offer you the chance to undo your changes. When testing applications, you do not want to taint your test environment with DLLs you have previously installed. You should be testing on a clean install of the operating system and core programs (e.g. Office if required, .NET Framework 1.1) - so that your test environment is the same as the standard user environment. To allow your test Virtual PC image to be rolled back to the state before you installed your test software, you should check on the "Enable Undo Disks" option when creating your Virtual PC image. However in some cases, such as keeping undo disks that haven’t been committed to the virtual hard disk can create a large amount of disk-related overhead. Therefore it is recommended that developers store the undo disks on a separate physical disk to the virtual hard disk.

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Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-platform browser plug-in. This provides RIA user experiences utilising core dot NET common language runtime functionality within the browser. This means that windows style applications are able to run from within the browser. Silverlight also supports many rich media display options, such as vector graphics, animation and audiovisual playback.

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