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• Don't Install Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on Windows 7

  You'll need to uninstall Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 on your Win7 machine if you see the following errors: Cannot start Windows Virtual PC Host Process Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is not supported on this version of Windows. Posted Nov 10 2009, 10:27 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Error, Windows, Virtual, Software, PC, SP1, Microsoft, 2007

• Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled.

  A local winform application is blowing up on me with the following errors: System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException: Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled. Please enable DTC for network access... Posted Oct 26 2009, 11:23 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Error, Windows, Software, Development, Microsoft, System

• Outlook 2007 "No Default Mail Client" Error

  I was forced to install Office 2003 after I had already installed Office 2007 and when I launched Outlook this morning it bombed out with: "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please... Posted Oct 26 2009, 08:36 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Outlook, Error, Software, Microsoft, 2007, Office

• Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Work Item Error

  I just finished setting up my Windows 7 workstation. I installed VS2008 Development Edition, SP1 and then the VS2008 TFS Team Explorer. I went to open up my work items and received the following error message: "Could not load type 'Microsoft... Posted Oct 23 2009, 02:37 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Error, Visual Studio, Microsoft, 2008, TFS

• The CheckedListBox Control: A Microsoft Blunder

  I'm developing a new .NET 3.5 winform application and in a preferences dialog there is a group of options that will be selected with checkboxes. I opened up the toolbox and started the cursor towards a GroupBox control when I noticed the newer CheckedListBox... Posted Oct 21 2009, 08:27 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Software, Code, .NET, Microsoft

• Exchange 2007 Edge Queue "4.7.5 Certificate Validation Failure"

  I was troubleshooting some Exchange issues recently and I managed to create a whole bunch more. I managed to remove a certificate from my Exchange 2007 server not knowing it was still in use. After doing that, my inbox was suspiciously quiet and anyone... Posted Jun 11 2009, 10:02 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Exchange, Error, Server, Software, Edge, Email, Microsoft, 2007

• IE8 Renders ASP.NET Menu Control Incorrectly

  I saw this issue coming a few months ago when testing my application from my Windows 7 Beta build, my ASP.NET drop down menus were broken! They appeared all white and nothing was clickable, as shown below: IE7, Firefox 3, Opera, Safari, etc all render... Posted Mar 27 2009, 11:32 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Error, Software, Internet, ASP.NET, Microsoft, IE8, 8, Explorer

• MS SQL Loop Through Table Scripts

  At some point you may want to loop through every row in a table and perform operations based on the fields in each row. After a bit of investigation, I've found the 2 most common ways of doing it. Loop Through All Rows of a Table Using a Counter This... Posted Mar 10 2009, 10:24 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Script, Software, Code, SQL, Programming, Microsoft