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Sep 20th, 2007

Ok I’ll… with Visual Studio.NET

So here we are a few weeks into the semester when my course (CIS 285A – ASP.net) finally started, it’s fifteen weeks not eighteen. This course requires my Visual Studio 2005 software, which I have and my product license key, which I appear to have lost.

No problem I will simply log in to the student service that got me this expensive software for free and get the key. Ok no I won’t I’m locked out. Ok I will put in a support request with the service, and the school, and in the meantime attempt to do my work while at work since I work in the CIS labs.

Ok no I won’t do my work because I keep on getting error messages that make no sense at all. So now i will attempt to make this software work with Visual Basic Express, Ok no I won’t Vista won’t let me install IIS, something about being elevated, thanks for the great error code Microsoft.

Ok a couple of days later I figure out the elevated problem, I had to run a dos command as administrator in Vista, nothing tough to do but an annoyance all the same. Still though no dice on getting work done at home. So I head back to work to accomplish this task.

Still no dice and still no response from any of my support requests until finally, over the course of two days a support request is answered, and I have access again to my account so I can get my product activation keys. But I am at work and still unable to fix this problem with odd error messages at work. That is until…..

I discover what the error messages actually mean, the teacher told us to put a text field control on the form, but did not tell us to name it anything in particular and the error message did not inform me of an issue, neither did I look for the blue squigglies that indicate a coding error.

Long story short: I hate looking at other peoples code and have a hard time with it, I need to get over it big time.

Now if only I could get work done at home….

EDIT: After much hand wringing, cursing, and emails back and forth I am able to successfully run Visual Studio.NET and ASP.net under Vista. I doubt I will learn anything new, but hey it’s another language I can familiarize and confuse myself with. Special thanks go out to people at my work/school.

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