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• Change Visual Studio 2008 Web Development Debug Server

  I'm experiencing an odd exception when debugging locally but everything works fine when it's deployed to a remote development server. Someone suggested I use IIS locally when debugging, instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development Server... Posted Dec 04 2008, 05:44 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: IIS, Software, Visual Studio, Web, 7.0, 2008

• Visual Studio 2008 Find in Entire Solution Fails

  Well this is new! I just ran a global search in my solution, like I do a hundred times a day, and it failed with this generic error message in the Find Result window: Find all "FIND ME!", Subfolders, Find Results 1, "Entire Solution"... Posted Nov 24 2008, 09:41 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Error, Visual Studio, 2008, Find

• Install Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Licensing Role Service

  My Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services machine has just used up its 120 day licensing grace period. I setup the TS server to publish a few remote apps (Firefox and VLC mainly), just to stay current with the latest technologies available through my MSDN... Posted Oct 24 2008, 08:23 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Server, Windows, Software, Remote, 2008, RDP, Terminal Services

• SQL Server 2008 - Saving Changes Is Not Permitted

  Using the import data wizard I created a new table from a spreadsheet and then tried to delete some columns and add a primary key. When I tried to save my changes in SQL Server Management Studio, this error appeared: Saving changes is not permitted. The... Posted Sep 14 2008, 09:26 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Error, Server, Software, SQL, 2008

• Did China Buy the Olympic Games?

  I can't believe that China is getting away with blatantly cheating in the Olympic games. If you haven't been watching, most of the 2008 Chinese Woman's Gymnastics Team is clearly under the minimum age of 16. You can tell just by looking at... Posted Aug 13 2008, 11:39 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2008, Olympics, Beijing, China

• Remove Antivirus XP 2008 Spyware

  I was surfing the net for FreeNAS reviews today and I came across an article on BlogTopList.com. I kid you not... I simply clicked the link and immediately my computer was infected with "Antivirus XP 2008". I didn't click the yellow-information... Posted Jul 11 2008, 02:52 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Software, XP, 2008, Antivirus, Malware, Virus, Malwarebyte's, Spyware

• Hyper-V Final Release Update

  The final release of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 was posted today and it's just a simple update . I've already got it installed and running, all that's required is a reboot. I'm glad to have a final version installed just for peace... Posted Jul 10 2008, 09:45 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, Update, Software, 2008, Hyper-V, Virtualization

• Configure SourceSafe over HTTP SSL (HTTPS) on Server 2008

  *** Couldn't get this to work with Visual Studio 2008, see bottom. Install the Web Server Role Check ASP.NET Check II6 Metabase Compatibility role service Check all Security role services Install SourceSafe If SourceSafe isn't already installed... Posted Jun 19 2008, 01:23 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Server, SSL, Software, 2008, Source Control, SourceSafe

• Publish a .NET 3.5 Website to Windows Server 2008 IIS 7

  Install the Web Server Role In Role Services, select ASP.NET and continue. Install the .NET 3.5 Framework On your webserver, install the .NET 3.5 framework . Publish Your Application In Visual Studio, publish your web project to a local folder, like on... Posted Jun 18 2008, 07:42 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 7, Server, Windows, IIS, Software, SQL, 2008, ASP.NET, 3.5, .NET

• Configuring Server 2008 for RADIUS Authentication

  I like connecting to my network using my pfSense firewall's built-in VPN server. Following these steps, I can configure Windows Server 2008 to provide the authentication credentials for pfSense via RADIUS. I figured this out using this great guide... Posted Jun 04 2008, 03:36 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: RADIUS, Server, VPN, Windows, PPTP, 2008, NPS

• Not Upgrading to Community Server 2008

  I upgraded Bunker Hollow last night, from this current version of CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960) to the latest version of Community Server 2008 (4.0something). The update was a little confusing... you have to first download and install a... Posted May 20 2008, 09:57 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Update, 2008

• Heroes Happen Here, Milwaukee 2008

  A co-worker and I attended the 2008 Microsoft Launch event yesterday in Milwaukee WI. Even though it was more of a promotional event than a learning conference, the presentations featured a number of demos that showed actual code. The speakers focused... Posted May 10 2008, 10:23 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Software, 2008, Microsoft. Event, Launch

• Installing the Ajax Control Toolkit in Visual Studio

  Download the control kit from http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11121 . Choose the 3.5 version for Visual Studio 2008, with or without the source code. Unzip to a local directory, like C:\Ajax. From your... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:43 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Software, Visual Studio, 2008, Ajax

• My Visual Studio Color Settings

  All the credit for this color scheme is owed to Oren Ellenbogen . I've just modified it slightly to suit my taste. I changed the font to Courier New, changed keywords a little and exported the settings as Fonts & Colors only so that when you load... Posted Feb 27 2008, 12:56 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2005, Visual Studio, Settings, 2008, Color, Font

• .NET 2.0 Custom SqlMembershipProvider

  While I'm waiting for my development machine to come in (Thinkpad T61p !!!), I'm doing some prep work on my desktop. I installed SQL Server 2005 Standard x64, Visual Studio 2008 Professional x64, and all of the service packs and updates. During... Posted Feb 03 2008, 10:56 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Server, 2005, Visual Studio, x64, SQL, 2008, SqlMembershipProvider, Membership