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Nannette Thacker, consultant and owner of Shining Star Services LLC, specializes in development of custom dynamic database driven web applications utilizing ASP.net technologies. Nannette has been developing ASP sites since 1997. Nannette has written numerous articles on web development techniques and tutorials.

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Product Review: TredoSoft Multiple IEs

By Nannette Thacker

When developing, client specifications often include a requirement to support not only the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser, but also Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). If you have IE7 installed on your PC and you try to find a version of IE6 to install, good luck with a successfull installation. I don't know how they do it, but the folks over at http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE have created a great program called Multiple IE's that installs not only IE6, but also optionally IE5, IE4, and IE3.

This is donation-ware and I do highly encourage you to donate if you use this program, for after all, the "laborer is worthy of his hire."

Installation is quite simple. Download. Click the EXE. Select which IE versions you want to install. You're done. The icons are on your desktop ready to use.

Note, the installer does not work with Windows Vista. But this blog post explains how to make IE6 work in Vista.

May your dreams be in ASP.net!

Nannette Thacker

Posted: Aug 24 2008, 05:44 PM by nannette | with 4 comment(s)
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# August 24, 2008 6:55 PM

Joe Chung said:

I would recommend using Virtual PC and the IE App Compat Virtual PC images instead.  They're both free, no donations solicited.

# August 24, 2008 8:15 PM

kamii47 said:

It's a great utility.

# August 25, 2008 6:05 AM

stefan.sedich said:

Sorry but all I can say is do not rely on this product for testing IE6. I have had cases where a site would render differenty in the multiples IE6 and a stand alone IE6 machine, including AJAX functionality working on the standalone and not the multiple ies version.

This caused much frustration for me and days of misspend debugging, to test IE6 I use the IE6 VPC freely supplied by MS(google for it). I have also had cases where IE7 on a machine that had muliple IE6 installed rendered differently than a machine that had never had it installed.

Hence my warning, do not use for testing and go with an VPC instead :)

Cheers

Stefan

# August 25, 2008 11:47 AM
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