Thursday, September 11, 2008

Virtual PC 2007 Version numbers

Virtual PC 2007 = Version 6.0.156.0
Virtual PC 2007 SP1 = Version 6.0.192.0

SQL 2008 Error 5120

Today I was trying to attach some databases to SQL 2008 on a Vista machine but kept getting Error 5120. To avoid this problem you must start SQL Server Management Studio in Administrator mode. (right click the link, select Properties, click Advanced and enable "run as Administrator").

SMTP server in Windows Server 2008

This took me a while to find today. If you install the SMTP server in Windows 2008 the management tool is in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager rather then in the new IIS7 tool.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

PopupControlExtender bug with buttons

There seems to be a bug in the Ajax Control Toolkit that generates a Javascript error when you click on a button inside a PopupControlExtender panel. I replaced the Button with a LinkButton and managed to get things working.