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A couple of days ago I received an email from Steven Davis. He proposed some brilliant enhancements to the MySQL session state store provider. Thanks to him, I am able to provide a new release of it today. New features he incorporated into the provider are: added cluster db support: the ability to retry within a cluster of servers, the web.config can then use connectionStringList="," fixed timeout Minutes to TotalMinutes changed namespace to Kimpel.MySqlSessionDll to make debugging clearer Release v.03 now also supports MySQL Connector/Net 6.2. I also added a SQL script to create the necessary sessions table. ...

I really like the idea and hope to see some of it in the near future. Have a look at this video: (original URL https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6712657&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1) 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

I am using Microsoft’s Virtual PC quite heavily in all my development projects since it has lots of advantages in my day to day work … especially when working in multi-project environments. It is just until this week that I learned a very important lesson in this area. I can’t imagine how difficult and inefficient my setup has been. I found this very interesting blog entry “HOWTO: Use Virtual PC’s Differencing Disks to your Advantage” by Andrew Connell that makes life so much easier and in additon to that saves tons of space on my harddrive.

I just ran into an interesting exception within a Java project. I implemented a couple of Java classes along with hibernate mapping files. Until today, everything worked just fine. I then added some attributes/properties to a class and completed the mapping file. After deploying and testing the application I ran into the following hibernate exception: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to instantiate default tuplizer [org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer] I really couldn’t figure out what was wrong and tried almost everything. I just overlooked a little tiny detail: I misspelled a getter-method in the Java class and this led to the exception above. ...

I am totally excited about my new home entertainment system. It uses a standard digital satellite dish along with an external FireDTV (Digital Everywhere) digital TV receiver connected to my more or less frumpy desktop PC. The computer runs Windows 7 RC with Media Center configured to use the satellite box. My living room is equipped with a Xbox 360 connected to the TV. The Xbox 360 and my desktop PC talk to each other via powerline AV ethernet connection (since I totally forgot to put a system of conduits in my home). ...

Just recently I wanted to give Windows 7 RC a test drive. I used to run Windows XP on a pretty old fashioned computer with the following setup: - AMD Athlon XP 1600+ - 2 GB RAM - ASROCK K7VT4A Pro - ASUS V7100 Pro This setup works quite decently. Well, at least for the purpose I am using this machine for which is emailing, surfing and some document and media management. ...

As Joel (original URL https://cid-a4e6342ee2ff07cb.profile.live.com/) and Ciprian Tarta (original URL https://cid-9e17649272bd0cd7.profile.live.com/) mentioned, the code for the MySQL session state store provider contained a little bug in the RemoveItem method. I fixed this bug and also tried to re-format the document. You can download the document here: https://www.kimpel.com/FileDownloader.aspx?file=MySqlSessionStateStore v.0.2.zip. Enjoy!

Have a look at this fabulous demo from MIT …

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. ...