I reinstalled Vista again on my Dell 5150, but this time I used the Nvidia drivers from the http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html and my lack of a login prompt has not reappeared. However, it is not all good news, the Aero interfaces has only appeared once, the rest of the time it is the non-Aero …

I have been battling with Vista CTP (5308) for a few days. I have now installed it twice on my Dell Inspiron 5150 (80MB drive, 2Gb memory, Bios A38) and both times it has installed fine, automatically updated the Nvidia FX5200 driver via Windows update and let me install applications, rebooting a few times as I go …

I have been fighting an authentication problem on this all day with the new ReportViewer in ASP.Net 2.0. I have been getting 401 authorisation errors when I tried to set any parameters (or run a report with no parameters) inside the viewer. Turns out the problem was that the _ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl …

We had been running our blogs using separate single blog installations of .Text .94 for best part of two years without any major issues. With the release of Community Server 2.0 we decided that it was a good idea to upgrade, the danger of getting left behind on the upgrade path was just too real. So how do you go from …

We have been running .Text 0.94 for a good while now, and all has been OK until a couple of weeks ago. We noticed an increase in Spam and that IE7 beta did not render some of the pages correctly, so making editing hard. So I took this chance to update to the newly release Community Server 2.0, I will post my …

I was asked via this blog if the GUITester tool can be used with VB.NET. Well because of the architecture of .NET in theory it can be used with any .NET language, as long as the language designers implemented attributes. The only change that is required is to make sure that the attributes are declared in the correct …

Yesterday I was at the Solution Architect Forum: Defining, Building and Using Software Factories at Microsoft TVP, all very interesting and I or Robert will no doubt blog on it soon. The Q&A session throw up some interesting questions on if Software Factories will have an effect on the status of the Software …

1. “YOU NEED A LICENSE TO TOUCH THAT!” 1.1. Introduction Throughout the history of science and technology there has been a trend in the development spectrum away from the gentleman amateur and towards the professional engineer. This report explores at which point on this spectrum Software Engineering currently lies …

Today I tried upgrading a VS 2003 ASP.NET 1.1 application to VS 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 all went OK I had a play but I wanted to roll back from my sourcesafe system to the ASP.NET 1.1 as this is what the production server is using at present. Again this all went OK, or so I thought. I then tried to debug my ASP.NET 1.1 …

This one really got me. I was trying to get the built in WiFi working on a new Acer 2350. Windows XP saw the built in IPN2220 fine, but got no signal strength, but a Netgear USB WiFi worked fine in the same PC After much fiddling and time on Internet I found the problem, there is a small black flight mode switch on the …