DavidWSnow
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| 01 Apr 2008 7:59 PM |
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I am please to see this issue. Wish that I had it last Semtember when I switched to Vista Utlimate. Today I wish this was on painlessly applying Vista SP1. On my laptop it went en easily in about one hour.
On my Desktop/Development system it failed with a meaningless error message.
MS's suggesting was that I "upgrade" from my original DVD to refresh all file images (3 hours), then apply SP1. SP1 failed to shutdown on one of the reboots and the whole SP1 process restarted. It succeeded this time (3 more hours)
Within 30 minutes my system had frozen twice. This is a symptom I had not had before. It took me 2 tries to download your videos.
Vista is such fun.
/DaveS
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DavidWSnow
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| 01 Apr 2008 9:40 PM |
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I just watched the issue 31 videos. Vista SP1 froze twice. I have a few comments, suggestions and a possible correction:
- The method of authentication for the SQL server can be either windows or mixed. The default DNN install uses windows mode.
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IIS you can set the order of the default documents to have
"Default.aspx" at the top, so you don't have to mess with it each time
that you make a new DNN installation or portal
- You didn't
menton installing IIS on the system and which options that you must
install. As I recall when I did this last Sept this was the hardest
part. Maybe you could add a little in this area.
As
usual you did a great job. It was good for me to walk thru this again
in my mind. Today I almost never do a fresh DNN install. I seem to be
"cloning" my production system on my localhost and testing with it.
I
use Virtual PC running XP-Pro to test my web site with IE6. What
overkill. The question I have about Virtual PC is about the OS
licenses. Does MS want 6 Vista licenses if I run 5 Virtual PC's on my
Vista system? I had XP-Pro serial numbers from a couple of old boxes,
so it wasn't an issue for my simple usage.
/DaveS
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leesykes
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DavidWSnow
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| 07 Apr 2008 9:41 AM |
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It may also be the same WindowsXP-Pro volume license we had when I worked to DEC and Compaq which was good for 50,000+ installs and cost two arms and a leg
Almost makes you wish that DNN ran on Linux. Oh I almost forgot, on Linux I could run multiple versions a each browser and not need a virtual install foe each.
/Dave
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leesykes
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| 07 Apr 2008 9:53 AM |
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yeah prob will be a lot - I read the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
Can you setup Linux in a virtual environment in windows? - you would only need 1 virtual environment then for testing?
I haven't looked at Linux but was thinking about having a look as I want to setup a media server at home which streams videos, wavs etc via wireless to the tv, hi-fi etc. - I know its going off topic, but do you have any experience with that?!
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DavidWSnow
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| 07 Apr 2008 10:11 AM |
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To be honest I have looked at Linux much lately, however I did spend 20 years doing Unix software development.
I too was think that I might try Ubuntu Linux in a virtual environment. I found some instructions for setting it up. As for media server I have never used it and wish it wasn't part of my Vista systems. I'm tone deaf, don't listen to music and am happy with the Tivo for my TV, but not with the available programing.
/Dave
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lilryno
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| 01 May 2008 2:47 PM |
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I just purchased a subscription for Issue 31 because after purchasing a new laptop, vista ultimate, and VS 2005 almost a year ago...I have been unable to get the development environment working. As a result, instead of continuing to code my own modules I've had to hire people to do it. That's not been fun.
So I went through your tutorial and on the first video we were told to put "http://localhost/" into IE and in the video it shows a nice IIS7 screen. On my laptop, however, I get a HTTP 404.
I need some help getting IIS to work on my machine. I "uninstalled" it and "reinstalled" it on this machine and nothing changes. I remember deleting the "default" website that came up in IIS and I can't figure out how to get that back. Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't bring that default website back.
I have no CD for Vista Ultimate...I upgraded the one that was on this machine when I bought it over the internet.
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lilryno
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| 05 May 2008 8:49 AM |
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Outstanding!
Well I got it working for the most part. I would be very pleased to see a tutorial made on using Visual Studio 2005 on a Vista Machine (setting up the VS 2005 for best practices) and then creating a simple module. This would be a very useful tutorial. |
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leesykes
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tzimiskes
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| 17 Aug 2008 5:30 PM |
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| The instructions in the tutorial certainly work to create a working DNN site, but I have one question: Where is the database? When I open SSMSE I don't see ANY database other than master, model, etc. |
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leesykes
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