Thanks David. When I typed Path the output filled my whole Dos window! _____
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Gardiner Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2017 11:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtualmachines still the way to go? VMs and Docker are great for isolating things. Also now with Windows 10 being able to do a 'refresh' (leaving all your documents and source files etc alone) combined with something like Boxstarter (or even just Chocolatey), being able to rebuild your machine can be done relatively painlessly (eg. a few hours, or overnight). I do like the idea that recreating my development environment is pretty straight forward. Do watch out for having too many versions of SQL Server installed - it can end up making your PATH environment variable too big and then "bad things" start happening. David On 4 February 2017 at 10:16, Preet Sangha <preetsan...@gmail.com> wrote: Your VMs take a long time to load? I've been using SSd for about 4/5 years now and don't find VMs take that long at all, esp. since there is not need to power down. You can just pause them. For my dev box I have SQL server (2 versions), VS 2010 (C++) and VS 2015 (complete) , though the 2010 is now no longer needed. Plus I have git and and few tools like beyond compare and git UIs + office software. I tend to use VMs (Hyper V) for testing where more than PF5 is needed. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 4 February 2017 at 12:30, Kirsten Greed <kirst...@jobtalk.com.au> wrote: I have a chance to upgrade my development box. Over the years multiple programs have crept on to my box including 3 versions of SQL Server Express. I am wondering how to be more disciplined in keeping my environment clean Although I have some VMs installed I haven't been using them because they take so long to load. For trying out new things - like VS2017, are VMs still the way to go? Or is there something else now ( like Docker? ) What programs should be "On the metal" ?
