Fabulous demo from MIT

Created: Jun 19, 2009

Have a look at this fabulous demo from MIT …

Installing SQL Server 2008 RC0

Created: Sep 11, 2008

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.

The hassle of installing VS 2008

Created: Dec 07, 2007

… 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.

Silverlight Surface

Created: Sep 13, 2007

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.

ASP.NET session state store provider for MySql

Created: Jul 10, 2007

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.

kimpel.com Hosting

Created: Jul 10, 2007

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.

ASP.NET/IIS hangs - Visual Studio stops responding when you try to create/access an ASP.NET project

Created: Jul 04, 2007

I just found a solution to the issue in the subject. I had the problem a while ago and the only resolution was to re-install my machine. Today I had the same issue again after installing (what I figured out) an UMTS software on my machine. ASP.NET and IIS worked just fine before, but after installing the UMTS software this morning I had the same problems again. I googled and fortunately found this post. The resolution is just to run the little application attached. This will remove the bmnet.dll installed and will fix settings within the windows socket layer. It worked for me.

Hello world!

Created: Jul 04, 2007

Welcome to my blog.

Microsoft Surface

Created: Jul 04, 2007

This is one of the hottest technology I’ve seen in a while: Microsoft Surface

RsKeyMgmt: German culture (no response)

Created: Jul 04, 2007

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.