PROBLEM DESCRIPTION After installing the .NET framework 4.0, I wasn't able to start the Enterprise Single SignOn service for BizTalk 2006 R2. The ENTSSO services were failing with the following error message: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: While I was trying to connect to an Access Database from Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 7 x64 server, I got the following error message, Server Error in '/myCalendar' Application. The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB...

Goal: To write a SQL command that will connect to the Microsoft Access 2010 database in Visual Studio 2010. Solution: This can be achieved using the connection string as follows, OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection ( "Provider...

Background: I was looking for a requirement where I needed to use the SQL SELECT command based on a user’s input. In my case, it was a selection made from a DropDownList. This select command will be further used to populate a GridView. The...

Visual Studio 2010 was released by Microsoft yesterday (12 th April 2010). VS 2010 promises a lot of new features. More details of the new features are present in the following articles, What's New in the .NET Framework 4 http://msdn.microsoft.com...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: While switching between the design view and the source view in Visual Studio, it was observed that the switching takes around 2-3 minutes to complete. During this while, the IDE was in a hung state. RESEARCH: 1. We suggested...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: One of my customers was trying to install SQL Reporting Services and noticed that he was not able to complete the installation. The IIS feature was disabled during the installation, and it was giving the following error message...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: My customer was facing issue while installing the Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control on Windows XP SP2. TROUBLESHOOTING DONE: - He was using Windows XP SP2 and had installed the Remote Desktop Web Connection :...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: One of my customers observed that IE 8 is prompting for authentication every time he accesses his aspx page. He is using Single Sign On which takes the credentials of the currently logged in user and logs the application under...

My customer is repeatedly seeing the following crash events in the event viewer while running the ASP.NET 2.0 web application on x64 bit machines. This application worked just fine on x32 bit machines. Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: We were trying to run a windows application which is getting invoked from a link in the ASP.NET 3.5 web application. The windows application was supposed to get invoked on the client machine. The web app is hosted on the IIS web...

I was trying to run a BizTalk Project using Visual Studio 2008 and was getting the following error message: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The project file 'C:\BiztalkProject.btproj' cannot...

One of my customers wanted assistance to set the Internet Explorer as the default browser through group policy even though the user installs other browsers and makes it the default browser. Since there aren't any predefined GP available, I helped him...

My customer wanted to disable the IE 8 Welcome Screen through group policies. Background: After we install Internet Explorer 8 for the first time or reset the Internet Explorer Settings, you’ll see the Set Up Windows Internet Explorer 8 screen...

My customer was trying to install the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-070 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (KB958393) from the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6AC7CF8F-D046-43A8-B4EF-253153D65AED&displaylang...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION You are trying to set the proxy server and the exception list for the Internet explorer through the group policies and noticed that the policies weren’t getting applied properly. Internet Explorer Maintenance -> Connections...

My customer wanted to enable the IE setting "use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections" on all the client machines through group policy. RESOLUTION ============ It is normally easy to enable the settings through group policies and inherit on...

I wish everyone a very happy and prosperous new year 2009. This is my first blog for the year. I hope it really helps. Windows Vista and Windows 2008 comes with .NET framework 2.0 installed by default along with the operating system. However it is...

I was trying to implement storing ASP.NET session in SQL server today and faced a few problems during configuration. I had to go through many articles that talk about what is SQL server, what's the need to store session in SQL etc. Common, I know them...

I have handled a lot of session related issues till now; I felt the need to key in a few checkpoints we could always refer while we are seeing session timeouts. There are a lot of reasons for session loss. To name a few, ü Application Pool is...

A few days back I got an interesting case. The customer was trying to access a site ( https://www.site1.com ) deployed on DOMAIN1 domain with Integrated and Basic Authentication enabled in IIS. When the user browses the site from Internet, and doesn’t...

I have been into .NET debugging recently and one of the issues I was able to figure out the root cause J . Crash issues are normally easy to troubleshoot :o) PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The customer was getting “ Service Unavailable ” whenever he accessed...

One of my customers was noticing that his worker process crashed repeatedly (W3SVC error 1011). While troubleshooting this issue, we had collected crash dumps using debugdiag tool. After looking into the dumps I saw that we were running into heap corruption...

One of my customers had implemented forms authentication in his ASP.NET 2.0 web application. He was facing problem with session and authentication timeouts. They saw that the session time out value was resetting on every post back, but authentication...

One of my customers wanted to know how he can disable the entity tags in the IIS headers. He wanted to disable it to improve Web browser caching performance. (Ref: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags ) For more information on the...