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Having difficulty RDC into server from my work PC [Having difficulty RDC into server from my work PC]

RodAtWork — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:03 GMT

I'm working at home today, using Microsoft's Mesh (www.mesh.com) to connect to my work desktop PC. (It is running Windows XP SP3. At home I'm using Windows 7.) This is working very well, and I'm thankful!

However, there is one sticky point. I want to be able to remote desktop connect from my work PC to one of the servers on our network. I have tried, repeatedly, to RDC into various servers, but have failed each time. I'm always getting the error message:

The system could not log you in. Maka sure the username and password are correct and try again.

I have made sure that the usernname and password are correct. I have tried multiple accounts on 4 different servers, and I'm getting the same error messages for all attempts. What could be causing this problem?

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Windows XP didn't want to shut down [Windows XP didn't want to shut down]

RodAtWork — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:18:47 GMT

I've got a Windows XP Pro box at work. Recently, it just hasn't wanted to shut down, when I try to make it do a reboot or a shut down. Instead it just sits there.

Why's that?

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Making the thumb tack stay on a Bing search [Making the thumb tack stay on a Bing search]

RodAtWork — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:08:55 GMT

My agency has just relocated to a new building. I've put a link to it on our website, using Bing's mapping. However, in testing it, I see the thumb tack (I don't know what it is called, so that's what I'm calling it) that points out our address, disappear. I really want that to stay on the map, and I'm using our users do to. So, how do I do that?

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Migrating from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate [Migrating from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate]

RodAtWork — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:36:24 GMT

I'm working on replacing my failed PC at home. Since this is my dime, I
cannot afford as nice a machine as I have at work. Therefore, whatever I
buy now will likely have Windows Vista Home Premium on it. Can I upgrade it
to Windows 7 Ultimate or Win7 Enterprise? Or is one forced to upgrade to
the equivalent version of Windows 7 that corresponds to Vista?

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Getting 0xC00000E9 on boot-up [Getting 0xC00000E9 on boot-up]

RodAtWork — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:00:42 GMT

I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit version, on my PC. It lasted less than 24 hours before it started giving me errors. Now, I'm getting a 0xC00000E9 error. Something about a hardware error. But would it tell me what hardware? no. Can I get to the event log? no. How am I supposed to diagnose anything it I have prevented from seeing what's wrong???

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64-bit Vista Ultimate BSOD daily [64-bit Vista Ultimate BSOD daily]

RodAtWork — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:03:11 GMT

For some reason, my 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate has been BSOD on a daily basis, whenever I turn on my machine. If it happened only once I would consider this to be random, but daily has me concerned. What's going on here?

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Netflicks and Windows Media Center [Netflicks and Windows Media Center]

RodAtWork — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:09:57 GMT

I have Windows Vista Ultimate. Last night I was creating a DVD for viewing later on my TV. When the process was finished it brought up Windows Media Center, displaying the DVD, etc. I closed that, but noticed that it looks as though Netflicks is available through Windows Media Center. Since I don't have Netflicks right now, I don't know how that works. How does it work?

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Win 2003 Server and KB954430 [Win 2003 Server and KB954430]

RodAtWork — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:23 GMT

One of our Windows 2003 Servers has some update, related to KB954430, which continuously wants to be installed. I've done it three times, and it still keeps popping back up to be installed. Why is that?

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MS Access: hash map cannot be updated [MS Access: hash map cannot be updated]

RodAtWork — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:22:08 GMT

Last week one of our users reported an error with one of our applications. This application, which is currently written in VB6, uses a couple of Microsoft Access databases. She now has MS Access 2007 installed. I finally had a chance to get to her machine and see what the error was. It said,

"The entry <C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\JULIE\MY DOCUMENTS\TEMPORARY ASI.LDB> in the hash map cannot be updated.

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x8007001f)"

Microsoft Access 2007 is involved. That is the log file for one of the 2 MS Access databases. I'd like to know if anyone has seen this error before with MS Access.

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Which attributes in the App.Config file do I specify in order to increase the size of the message being sent back to my WCF service? [Which attributes in the App.Config file do I specify in order to increase the size of the message being sent back to my WCF service?]

RodAtWork — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:27:23 GMT

I’ve written a WCF service that uses TCP as the transport protocol. I’ve got it hosted in a Windows service which I’ve written. And now I’ve written a simple app, as a client, to test getting and sending the data.

Fetching data using my new WCF service works fine. (YEAH!) However, sending the data back to the service doesn’t work. I get an error message that says, “The maximum message size quota for incoming messages has been exceeded for the remote channel.” This doesn’t surprise me in the least, as I am sending back a boat load of data (one of the primary reasons why I choose TCP over HTTP was because of the data I would be sending and receiving).

I’ve been asking around to try and get help on how to increase the size of whatever buffers I need to, in order to make this work. I was advised to increase the sizes of:

maxBufferPoolSize

maxBufferSize

maxReceivedMessageSize

and for the <readQuotas> element I was advised to increase the sizes to:

maxStringContentLength

maxByteArrayContentLength

maxDepth

maxBytesPerRead

maxNameTableCharCount

I’ve made the changes to the app.config file of the client application, but that didn’t help. I’m not surprised by this, because I’ve received the data fine at the client. It is the service side that needs the changes. However, I don’t know where to put these changes into the app.config file. Which element or section do I put them into? And do I put them into only the WCF service’s app.config file, or do I put them into the Windows service’s app.config file, or both?

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Printing just 1 appointment from Outlook [Printing just 1 appointment from Outlook]

RodAtWork — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:45:15 GMT

I've got various appointments schedule in my Outlook (Outlook 2007). I would like to print out a week's worth, but only showing 1 appointment. The only way I can think of doing this is to delete all of the other appointments. I don't want to do that, though.

So, how do I print out a week from Outlook, showing only the appointments I want to appear on that week's print out?

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Why does IE crash suddenly on some websites? [Why does IE crash suddenly on some websites?]

RodAtWork — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:32:34 GMT

I've noticed that sometimes Internet Explorer (I'm using IE 7) will suddenly close while I'm brousing. For example, on real.com when I'm reviewing some list on their website, I'll click on their Next link, and often (very often) IE just closes.

Why is that?

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How do you distribute a VB6 InteropForm with your VB6 app? [How do you distribute a VB6 InteropForm with your VB6 app?]

RodAtWork — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:05:26 GMT

Our two major apps are both written in VB6. I'm working on converting one now, due to the number of issues that it has, but the other one works reasonably well and so for the time being we're leaving it alone. However, every now and then I have to make changes to it. Whenever I have to make changes to this old VB6 app, I loath getting into VB6. It is such a pain, after having worked in Visual Studio .NET.

So, I've been considering replacing one or two of the old VB6 forms with a VB6 InteropForm Library project. I could use either VS 2005, which I've already gotten the VB6 InteropForm Library project for, or I would assume that there might be one available for VS 2008. Anyway, my question deals with how to distribute this with our app, if I do include it? Right now we've using an older version of the Wise installer, because we've got to install Crystal Reports 11 Release 2 with this VB6 app, along with several third party COM components. I'm just not sure how I would include a VB6 InteropForm Library assembly in the Wise installation.

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Can TableAdapters save to multiple databases? [Can TableAdapters save to multiple databases?]

RodAtWork — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:42:44 GMT

I've been using ADO.NET's data adapters for years, but now want to use a table adapter in my WCF Service, which I am writing in VS 2008 using the .NET Framework 3.5. I've got 30 tables, in 2 different databases, which I want to save data to. I have been nieve enough to think that I could fetch and save the data to both databases. Now that I'm actually at the point of implementing the save function using the table adapter's UpdateAll() method, it looks like I was so wrong about this.

So, I want to know, can one table adapter be used to save data using a strongly typed dataset which has tables drawn from more than 1 database? And if it can, how is that done?

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How do I get the data from several tables into a strongly-typed dataset using a table adapter [How do I get the data from several tables into a strongly-typed dataset using a table adapter]

RodAtWork — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:24:40 GMT

I am using the method that Ira Lukhezo described in a blog post of his on WCF for VS 2008. (Its an excellent post, I've found.) The thing that I'm having trouble with is getting data from several tables. I've followed his suggestions and made a strongly typed dataset of 30 tables, which are split between 2 different databases. In Ira's example he used one of the data adapters to return just one data table. I want to return data from all 30 tables in the two different databases. What I thought I could do was define my own GetData() method which would return an instance of my strongly typed dataset. What I'm having difficulty with is retrieving the data for each table and assigning it to the data tables in the dataset. I have, for example, something like this:

ASIDataset dsReturn = new ASIDataset();   
ASIIncomeLast30TableAdapter last30Adapter = new ASIIncomeLast30TableAdapter();

and then this:

ASIDataset.ASIIncomeLast30DataTable last30Table = new ASIDataset.ASIIncomeLast30DataTable();   
last30Adapter.Fill(last30Table, ClientNumber, CaseNumber);

But if I try to do either of the following two lines, I get an error saying that the ASIIncomeLast30 is a read-only data table:

dsReturn.Tables["ASIIncomeLast30"] = last30Table; //causes error   
dsReturn.ASIIncomeLast30 = last30Table;  //also causes error

So, I am not sure how I can get the data for all 30 tables from the 2 different databases.

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Working with Dataset Designer with a table adapter, part 2 [Working with Dataset Designer with a table adapter, part 2]

RodAtWork — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:36:48 GMT

This question is more difficult. I'm trying to retrieve data from 2 databases. I'm trying to retrieve data from several tables in a database. All of the tables that I'm retrieving have at least the same three columns in their primary key (thus they are in a one-to-one relationship with the primary table), and others are additional columns in their primary key in order to have a one-to-many relationship with their parent table. Basically, the table definitions are as follows:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MyTable1](
 [ClientNumber] [int] NOT NULL,
 [CaseNumber] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
 [Followup] [tinyint] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [MyTable1_Default]  DEFAULT ((0)),
 --Several other columns are defined here for each table.
 CONSTRAINT [PK_MyTable1] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED 
(
 [ClientNumber] ASC,
 [CaseNumber] ASC,
 [Followup] ASC
)WITH  ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

Because these tables (almost 30 of them) have the same 3 columns I wrote a generic stored procedure which I use to retrieve the data for any given ClientNumber, CaseNumber and Followup. I pass in the name of each table and the ClientNumber, CaseNumber and Followup parameters. Here is the source for that stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spTableData]
 @TableName varchar(50),
 @ClientNumber int,
 @CaseNumber tinyint = NULL
AS
BEGIN
 DECLARE
  @executionString nvarchar(500); 
 SET NOCOUNT ON;
    -- Build SELECT command
 SET @executionString = N'SELECT * FROM ';
 SET @executionString = @executionString + @TableName;
 SET @executionString = @executionString + N' WHERE ClientNumber = ';
 SET @executionString = @executionString + CAST(@ClientNumber as nvarchar);
 IF @CaseNumber Is Not NULL
 BEGIN
  SET @executionString = @executionString + N' AND CaseNumber = ' + CAST(@CaseNumber as nvarchar);
 END
 SET @executionString = @executionString + ' ORDER BY CaseNumber DESC';
 --now get the data
 exec sp_executesql @executionString;
END

I am having problems with the dataset designer. I'm trying to find a way of specifying each table's name, and maybe some default parameters for the ClientNumber, CaseNumber and Followup, so that I can get each of the almost 30 tables into the dataset, but the dataset designer is fighting me on this. It doesn't seem to want to do it. What do I do?

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Working with dataset designer in table adapters [Working with dataset designer in table adapters]

RodAtWork — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:55:55 GMT

I'm going to begin work designing a rather complicated dataset in a table adapeter, in VS 2008. I'm going to incorporate stored procedures, hitting against a SQL Server 2005 database, for both the retrieval of data and storing the data. Because there's so much involved I expect I'll have to start, work on it for a few hours, save what I'm doing and then go back to it later to work on it more. I know this is a simple question, but can I do that? Whenever I've worked with the dataset designer in table adapters I've always gotten it done in one go. I've never had to work for a long time, save it and then pick up later to finish it.

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Installing Office 2007 stops Windows from coming up [Installing Office 2007 stops Windows from coming up]

RodAtWork — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:38:57 GMT

I've helped a co-worker of mine with her PC. She owns a 4 year old Compaq PC. I've added memory to it, to bring it up to 1 GB of RAM. Its running Windows XP SP2. She needed to get a working version of Office for some graduate work that she's started to do. All she needs is Word and maybe Excel, so I thought the Standard version of Office would be fine, which is what I advised her to get. She got it and installed it this past weekend. After installing and, it required her to restart her PC, and that is when things went bad, according to her. She restarted her PC and it doesn't want to come up at all.

What could be causing that?

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WCF services and table adapters [WCF services and table adapters]

RodAtWork — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:59:35 GMT

I want to use an ADO.NET TableAdapter (VS 2008) to save several tables at the same time. I've got a few questions as to how to do this.

First, can I pass in a TableAdapter to a WCF service, or is it not serializable?

Second, how do I go about designing the table adapter in my WCF service? There is no UI for the WCF service, so I'm not sure how I would go about hosting it, so that I can design against it.

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How do I get English when going to MSDN? [How do I get English when going to MSDN?]

RodAtWork — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:07:34 GMT

Somehow or other, and I have no idea how this happened, when I go to something like MSDN Social Bookmarks, I get Korean (or some other Oriental language). I’ve no idea how to fix this, stop it, reset it, etc. And when I click on what I assume in my profile, of course that is in Korean as well so I can’t fix that either.

How do I get it back to English?

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WCF services hosted on Windows Server 2003 R2 [WCF services hosted on Windows Server 2003 R2]

RodAtWork — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:08:47 GMT

I know that IIS on Vista and Windows Server 2008 can host WCF services that use protocols like TCP, but that IIS on Windows Server 2003 cannot (I think it is restricted to WCF services that use HTML). Can IIS on Windows Server 2003 R2 host WCF services which use TCP or other protocols other than HTML?

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Getting a "library not registered" in COM+ [Getting a "library not registered" in COM+]

RodAtWork — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:53:41 GMT

I'm trying to move our old (VB6) COM+ components from one Windows 2003 server to another new. I've put them into Component Services on the new server, but when I try to export from as library applications I get the following error message:

"Catalog Error
An error occurred while processing the last operation.
Error code 8002801D - Library not registered.

The event log may contain additional troubleshooting information."

Well, as it turns out the event log didn't contain any additional troubleshooting information.

Anyway, I don't know what could be wrong. These are old components which we wrote and have been using for several years, and I've never run into this problem. I've got a couple of questions which might help clarify this problem. First, do we have to install ADO (not ADO.NET, but the older ADO) onto the Windows 2003 Server?

Second, this new server is a 64-bit dual processor with the 64-bit version of Windows 2003 Server. Does Component Services, or ADO, or anything like that, have problems running on a 64-bit OS?

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How many use the smart client software factory? [How many use the smart client software factory?]

RodAtWork — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:08:02 GMT

Some years ago we started developing our first ASP.NET application. We started with beta 2 of the .NET framework, and have worked with it ever since. Then about 5 years ago we converted one of our Windows applications into ASP.NET and at that point we were doing more Web development than Windows development. However, we’ve got 2 major Windows applications left, both written in VB6. One doesn’t take much maintenance, and I think we’ll all comfortable in leaving it as a VB6 app. However the other one is a big app, that is causing us problems. Both in the way it was designed and because of some third party controls by companies that either are no longer around or no longer support those old ActiveX controls. Because of the way in which this Windows app is used, it must remain a Windows app; mainly due to the fact that it must run in a disconnected fashion on users’ laptops. So some time ago I started investigating ways of updating this application’s structure and I came across the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF). I’ve been spending the better part of the last month or so trying to learn it.

The SCSF is good, but it is quite complex. I’m working my way through the hands-on labs, and really starting to understand it much better. But I’m stepping back a bit and beginning to wonder about the bigger picture, for my situation at least. I’m wondering about maintaining this re-written application, by other developers than myself. It is taking me a while to learn the SCSF, and I am pretty sure that some of my co-workers will not be able to get their minds around it. On that basis alone, I am considering using a simpler, although less best practices, approach. After all, if my co-workers cannot use the SCSF, then I think my re-writing this application won’t be too useful. So, the only thing that would convince me to continue with the SCSF is if I were to find out many people in the .NET work force use SCSF when doing Windows development. At least some of my co-workers won’t be able to wrap their minds around SCSF, and I think that some will have a very difficult time with it, but if the methodology of SCSF is prevalent among Windows developers, then I might continue with this approach.

So, I am asking, if you do Windows development, do you use a SCSF approach or not?

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My Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse [My Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse]

RodAtWork — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:22:08 GMT

This morning when I got up I fired up my PC. The mouse didn’t work and the keyboard didn’t work. I’ve got a Microsoft Wireless Comfort keyboard and mouse 4000. I thought that perhaps the batteries needed to be replaced, so I replaced the batteries for both the mouse and the keyboard, but it didn’t help. No response at all with either the mouse or keyboard. So now I’ve got Windows Vista waiting there and I’ve got no way (that I know of) to do a Control-Alt-Delete and shut it down. The only way I know of shutting it down is to power off the machine. (Side question: is there any way of doing a Control-Alt-Delete in Windows Vista, when that machine is not a part of an Active Directory domain? I don't have AD at home, but I'm wondering nevertheless.) This mouse and keyboard are fairly new; I have never changed the batteries in them until this morning. After I changed the batteries I pressed the button on both the mouse, keyboard and the wireless broadcasting unit so that they would “find” one another; but that didn’t work. Can this mean that the mouse and keyboard have gone bad that quickly? They only last as long as one set of batteries life time? I should hope not, as that would be a very expensive disposable keyboard and mouse.

I’m wondering if I’ve missed something. Since I only had about 10 minutes to work with the mouse and keyboard before I had to leave work, I had to leave it sitting there. I just talked with my wife and she said that after I left she powered it down and back up again. It came up, and naturally went into the “Windows shutdown abruptly” mode. She was able to respond to it at that point using the mouse to bring it up normally, but after that it stopped responding to the mouse and keyboard.

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Got a strange beeping sound after changing memory [Got a strange beeping sound after changing memory]

RodAtWork — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:05:05 GMT

I just finished changing memory on a friend's PC. She's got a 3 or 4 year old Compaq PC Presario. It only had 256 MB of memory and was getting pretty slow. I've changed it to 1 GB of memory.

After I put it in, I turned the machine on and checked things out. It looked OK, but I wanted to see the 1 GB in the CMOS setup, so I rebooted it and got into the machine's CMOS setup to take a look. Everything there looked fine.

Then I rebooted her machine a second time and it started beeping at me, and didn't want to go into Windows. No BSOD, either. I've never seen this behavior before. I simply turned it off, let it sit there for a minute or so, and then turned it back on. It was fine. I got into the event log and took a look around, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

What would cause this behavior and should we be concerned about it?

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