[slides below]

I had a great time. Thanks to my audience for playing a long.

Thanks to Kevin, Andy, Kevin, Darrell, Justin and Susan for having me. We had a great time. Got to sit in on some great presentations on MVC, Silverlight+WPF, SSIS.

Great to see Andy, Roberto, and a whole slew of other folks that I normally see in Nova. And always good to see Andrew Duthie, Microsoft Evangalist Supreme.

Here are my slides:

Well, I shot my mouth off about giving a presentation on how to give presentations.

So the good folks at the Richmond CodeCamp are giving me a forum on Saturday, April 25th. I better be good because they put my in the big auditorium at J. Sargent Reynolds Community College.

Richmond CodeCamp 2009.1 Sessions

Lots of great presentations being given by the folks down there, so come out. You just might learn something!

Of course, here is was what happened at my last presentation...

I'm building another virtual SharePoint development environment. Unfortunately, I did not adequately size my VHD -- and with all the applications (Office, SharePoint Designer, VS2008) -- that takes up a lot of space.

Rebuilding a new VHD would be time consuming.

So, what is the least expensive and least time consuming way to enlarge a VHD?

You are going to need to use a couple of programs.

Download VHDResizer from vmToolkit. This is a simple to use tool, but it is only part of the solution. With this tool you can enlarge the available space, but next you have to extend the partition. You can use diskpart.exe (in your Windows/System32 folder).

Here is the trick, though. If you try this within Virtual PC, etc., still using the original VHD as your C drive, you will run into an error, "The volume you have selected may not be extended". If you have another Virtual computer, add the extended VHD as an additional drive, and use the diskpart program on it.

You can follow this guide to get you through.