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Today, I really struggled with MS SQL Server 2008 RC0. I tried to install it on my Microsoft Vista German box without any luck. During System Configuration Check it told me that the performance counter registry hive is corrupted. Looking at the detailed log I found this information: Rule Name: PerfMonCounterNotCorruptedCheck Rule Description: Checks if existing performance counter registry hive is consistent. Message/Corrective Action: The performance counter registry hive is corrupted. To continue, you must repair the performance counter registry hive. For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956. ...

… or rather: good things come to those who wait. Yesterday, I planned to install Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista machine. Sounds like not much of a challenge, but the problem was that I previously installed VS 2008 Beta2. I knew that there might be things to consider, so I followed Scott Guthrie’s blog post where he describes all necessary steps to uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release. During uninstall everything went just fine. So, I started VS 2008 setup. It first installed .NET Framework 3.5 which seemed to be okay. But then suddenly the setup stopped without any reason or error message. ...

It’s been a while since I first heard about Microsoft® Silverlight™ (formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere or rather WPF/E). I read a good amount of documentation, downloaded Beta and even Alpha versions and played around with it trying to understand the way it works. Then, one day I found an awesome example showing pictures in a way I haven’t seen before in a web environment. That was it … I had to include it on my website. ...

As I mentioned earlier here, my website ultimately is .NET ready . Since I have quite a number of photos online that are off the record, I wanted to ‘protect’ them using forms authentication (within the former web hosting package developed in PHP I was using .htaccess and .htpassword files in order to protect complete directories). So, from my professional experience, I know that saving data in session is feasible. However, the problem comes with a clustered environment that you usually run into in production environments. One possible solution now is to store session data in a database. Since the package I ordered at Easy CGI does not come with a MS SQL Server database (unless you add it as an additional feature to your package) you are limited to MS Access or MySql as your database management system … well, this actually isn’t that much of a choice since MS Access is not really suitable in a multi-user environment. ...

Finally, I got it managed to move my domain to a different hosting provider. I was looking for an affordable while spacious provider for quite some time. But either they did not offer a windows hosting package or the amount of space was just too small. I hosted my site at Globat before and really have to say that I was very satisfied with their service and the whole package they provide. The only reason I was looking for a new provider was because of the type of hosting. Globat does not offer a windows package and therefore I was not able to do all the programming in ASP.NET which is by far my favorite language when it comes to web applications. ...

Background: Winsock LSPs and why they break ASP.NET In 2007 it was very common for laptops to ship with mobile broadband software — UMTS / HSDPA dongles or built-in 3G modems came with bundled connection managers from Vodafone, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, and others. A lot of that software installed a Layered Service Provider (LSP) into the Windows Winsock chain so it could intercept and inspect TCP/IP traffic for connection management, traffic accounting, or “smart” routing between Wi-Fi and cellular. ...

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One thing that quite frequently happened to me: I worked with MS SQL Server Reporting Services for quite a while, due to some reason (that I cannot assign right now) while accessing the ReportManager I get the following error message “Failed to decrypt symmetric key”. The suggestion now is to run RsKeyMgmt to delete all encrypted content and to run RsConfig to re-generate a new key. However, when running RsKeyMgmt on my machine running a German version of Windows XP I get the following: After I type in J and click on ENTER nothing happens. It just doesn’t do anything. I googled for solutions but just couldn’t find anything. The only way to get RS back to work was to reinstall it. This happened quite a few times to me until I found this post (original link: https://www.developmentnow.com/g/115_2005_1_0_0_454625/rskeymgmt-gives-no-response.htm) from Brian Welcker. So, the simple solution to this is to type in Y instead.