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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 (which I believe is called Cassini). So here it goes...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-04-2008
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" No files were found to look in. Find was stopped...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 11-24-2008
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 subscription. But over the last 4 months I've...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-24-2008
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 changes you have made require the following tables...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 09-14-2008
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 them and the numbers don't lie either; the average...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 08-13-2008
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 bar to allow anything to run, and my IE settings...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 07-11-2008
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 of mind, even though I haven't had any problems...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 07-10-2008
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 and configured, go ahead and do it. Make sure everything...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 06-19-2008
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 the desktop. Copy that folder to a local folder...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 06-18-2008
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 that I referenced for Windows Server 2003... Enable...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 06-04-2008

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