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***Never mind, I realized the answer as apparently there is another set of cd's somewhere and I just have to find them. *** The company I work for has a MSDN subscription. I've found the Visual Studio .NET Version 2002 disks from the msdn subscription. I know we are current on the subscription. My question is, shouldn't I somewhere have cd's clearly labeled Visual Studio .NET Version 2003? Or is it that I install the 2002 version and then apply the MSDN subscription index cd's that I have which are labeled like April 2003 and so on? Thanks

I hear ya on that one and I did a backup prior to the upgrade. I was just a bit unsure at first of how to upgrade because I didn't find any specific instructions about how to do it. I was happy to learn from the posting that the installer will do the upgrade so it's a pretty sharp little device in my opinion ;) I've got my local install of SQL set to perform a backup each night. Although I am not storing much in the way of code files in it right now what I am storing is just as important to me, a growing set of documents that I am creating. I've been working on them pretty much each night hence the nightly backups. I'm hoping to soon get done with my documentation project so I can start working on some coding :D

Thank you so very much for the advice. I truly was hesitant about taking that approach as I was afraid it would just do a new install wiping out what I already had. I did as you suggested though and everything went as smooth as possible and I am now upgraded to the 2.06 level :) I will have to drop a note to the SourceGear folks for making this such an easy application to upgrade. I'm totally impressed with how easily it installs and upgrades.

I have been using SourceGear Vault here on my home computer and I am really loving it. The version I am running is 2.05. I have noticed they have a 2.06 version out now. I have looked their site over and I can't seem to find any instructions regarding how to upgrade. Does anyone know how to go about doing that?

Well, I've looked around and I've not seen any place to perform the upgrade from. If I right click on the default web line I get the options in All Taks of removing the extensions or checking them. Checking them seems to be a security type check when I run that option. Any thoughts on what I might be missing or where I might look instead?

How do I tell what version, if any, FrontPage server extensions are loaded on my web server? I am running XP Pro with IIS 5.1. I have not installed any version of FrontPage on my system yet. I installed IIS before installing Visual Studio .NET. I plan to obtain soon FrontPage 2003 and have been doing some reading on it. Found that FrontPage 2002 server extensions are the ones it utilizes and wanted to see if I had a previous version of them installed or not. I don't think I do as I don't recall intentionally installing them, however, I can't say for sure. Thanks

Thank you both for your posts. The information you provided was what I was looking for :)

Hello there everyone, I'm just getting my feet wet real good with SourceGear Vault and had a question that I am seeking input on. I noticed the Admin tool will let you create backups. Is there any advantage to using the backup feature of the Admin tool over using the standard SQL 2000 backup functions? In times past I have used other application software that had internal backup features but I typically would not use them, leaving my backups to the ones generated at the system or database level instead. Just thought I would ask here and see what other users of SourceGear Vault thought.

I too have a Dell, in my case a Dell Dimension 4600 desktop machine. When I had to reload XP after replacing the hard drive, I used my Dell XP Professional cd that came with my Dell machine. Like you, not really worried about how it worked, just noted that it did something different than I thought it would. But certainly not complaining as I'm back up and running just fine now which is what really matters to me :cool:

SP2 doesn't have any bugs that I know of or have heard about. The big matter with SP2 is that depending in part on your hardware vendor and such, you may have to obtain updates from them first or other types of pre-planning before installing SP2. I had the unfortunate luck of having my hard drive go out just a day after I first applied SP2. Initially I thought it was some type of conflict among softare or drivers or some such type of thing, but as I looked into it more I sadly found that my hard drive had just decided to up and go out on me. Once I purchased a new hard drive, reloaded my software just as things were before applying SP2, then installing SP2, everything has been moving right along just fine for me. Hope this helps.

I would tend to agree with you about XP putting settings in the BIOS. With my recent hard drive crash, I fully expected to be prompted for such information when I first powered the machine up after installing the new hard drive and beginning to re-load the operating system. I was never prompted and the re-load went off without a hitch. Not that I am complaining about the way it worked, actually I was quite happy to see the re-load go so smoothly after having my nerves racked by the hard drive going out in the first place. :)

I have used a couple of those partition type softwares and I've never had much luck with them. Not saying they aren't any good, it is just sometimes it can be a bit tricky to handle. Something I have recently discovered, but have not actually tried it yet, is using Virtual PC to do the type of thing you are looking at, running Linux alongside of XP. I don't have the bookmark here, but there is actually a place on one of the MS sites describing how to accomplish the task with Virtual PC. I'll have to look the bookmark up when I get to work and let you know what it is. I'm rather interested in it because I hope to do the same thing sometime in the not too distant future here on my XP Pro machine at home.

Actually, it wasn't the download page that got me. I figured that one out just fine and pretty quickly to after scanning the descriptions of the download files. What threw me for a momentary loop was the page you go to after the install is done. The http://localhost/VaultService page. I became confused there when it indicated the next step was to download and install the admin client and the vault client. After I made my initial post and did a double take on the thinking about things, that is when I thought to look in the Start - Programs area and found everything was already installed. I haven't had the time yet to work with it a lot, but I like what I have seen of it and know I will give it a good honest try for a source code control solution. So I am happy with things after my momentary confusion moment. :)

Seems I overlooked something, which I try very hard not to do. The admin tool did install for me during the server install, since that is the file I downloaded and the option I elected to take when the install began. I was just not looking in program files for the program and now that I have I find it right there. This is looking great. When I am more rested I will begin working with it and see how things go. I really think I'm going to like this :)

I'm using XP Pro on my machine here at home, just installed SP2 last night and everything seems to be trucking along just fine. This evening I tried to install SourceGrear Vault, a few of you had mentioned this would be a good candidate for a version control system and I really wanted to get started with it and see how it worked. The install of the server portion seemed to go just fine. I did get to the point where you type in http://localhost/VaultService and the web page for it came up just fine. It was on this web page that there was a link to download and install the admin tool and the client tool. I thought I would do both since this is going to be the machine I use it on to track things for here at home. I downloaded the two msi files, but I could not install them. When I went to click on them I received a message that they had not been digitally signed. I clicked Ok to press on since I knew where the files had come from. But that was as far as I got because I then received an error message stating "The System Admin has set policies to prevent this installation". I was on my system as myself, which I did check to make sure was set as the administrative user of the sytem. Apparently there are some security settings in SP2 for XP that come by default set to disallow the running of msi files. Can anyone point me in the right direction to getting things set so that I can install these or have I made a mistake and Sourcegear Vault will not run on XP? Thanks

When I look in that area, I am not seeing anything specifically labeled as the product identification number or the product serial number. I do see in the Installed Products area where everything other than the Crystal Reports For Visual Studio .NET has the same number. The number is a grouping of 5 digits, then 3 digits, then 7 digits, then 5 digits. Would this identical grouping of numbers be what I would use in the registration of my VS.NET Professional edition?

After loading VS.NET 2003 on the new hard drive in my computer today, I went to register it and could not locate the Product ID# or Serial Number for it to complete the registration process. When I initially purchased it earlier in the year and loaded it on the hard drive that just crashed on me, I never registered it as my internet connection was down at the time I loaded it originally. Thought now would be a good time to perform the registration. I have done some searching in Help, even looked on the help menu and could not find an option that would provide me with the information. Can anyone clue me in on where to look?

I agree with you, being able to un-upgrade something if there is a problem is the best route to go. I am really glad that SP2 is removeable from within the add/remove programs area. Later, when I get to the point of trying to load SP2 again, I should be able to use the add/remove feature to un-do it if there is really any hardware or software conflicts with what I am running. For the moment I'm one tired little computer user. Just completed reloading most of the application and development software onto the system. The new hard drive is doing great. I do plan on loading SP2, but for the moment I'm taking a break and leaving the system at the SP1 level. Figure I've done enough work for today :)

No on the AMD processor. I am running a Dell Dimension 4600 desktop with an Intel Pentium IV processor 2.4GHz with 512 meg of ram, using XP Pro as the operating system. I really believe the hard drive just happened to crash just after I had done all the work on downloading and applying SP2. The good news is that I am on my way back up. While down-and-out yesterday evening after work over the hard drive going bad in my machine, I found a good deal at CompUSA on a Seagate drive that is 160gig, my former one was 120gig. With the mail in rebate the drive is basically half price :) So I purchased the drive. I installed it in the machine late last night, using my Dell provided XP Pro cd loaded the base operating system. I picked back up on the reload this morning and as of now have things close to being like they were before the install of SP2. So I'm moving right along thankfully :cool:

Actually, it's not looking like that was the problem after all. When at home over lunch today I tried booting it up into safe mode, wouldn't go. Starting to look like the hard drive is bad at this point. Gets so far into the boot process and just seems to hang. So looks like I'll be shopping for a hard drive at this point.

Yes, apparently I just did not do enough reading to adequately prepare for things before I applied it. I think I will initially remove it through the add/remove programs option and get myself back to the state I was in before I applied it. Then I'll need to take the time to truly read up on everything and then reapply it with the knowledge of what areas I will then have to modify to make things work. Wish me luck this evening, I'll start the add/remove process this evening after work while mowing the yard. Hoping to have things functional again by Saturday so I can sit back down and continue my studies for the 70-315 exam :)

Looks like I spoke to soon on what appeared to be my successful application of SP2. At the moment my machine won't boot up unless I use safe mode. :confused: Based on what I am reading in this thread at the moment, I think it must have something to do with MSDE SQL2000, IIS, and VS.NET that I have on my machine. Both SQL2000 and IIS are set to start on boot up and I am guessing that is what is keeping it from working at the moment.

Speaking just of my own experience, I loaded SP2 for WinXP last night on my home machine. I run XP Pro on a Dell Dimension 4600. Up to the point of SP2, I had kept my XP Pro updated with all the patches that Microsoft had provided by way of auto updates. I run VS.NET 2003 Professional edition, which uses the .NET 1.1 framework. So far everything has run just fine without any issues for me. Typically most of my work is done within VS.NET 2003, but I also do some MS SQL2000 work with the MSDE version that I have loaded on this machine. I do some image/photo editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and that seems to work just fine as well. You might want to check out the Microsoft page regarding what to expecte during the update, and follow the link to your manufacturers site to see if they have any words of wisdom to impart. I know for Dell there are a couple of models they do not suggest updating yet because of issues with video drivers. You should also check your anti-virus software and make sure it is agreeable with SP2. I use McAfee and it had to be updated before loading SP2, no big deal though as I subscribe to their update program and just went and downloaded what I was in need of. Hope this helps.

While I haven't read or purchased this book myself, it does look like one I will certainly give strong consideration to when I reach the point of doing compact framework programming. .NET Compact Framework Programming with C#

Interesting question and related posts on this topic. While this does deal with ASP.NET in the arena of web technologies, I would imagine you would see the extension used heavily in the combination of MS SharePoint portal server and InfoPath. I recently attended a MS seminar where some of the features of InfoPath were demonstrated. Seems it is a way of using XML to drive web forms and it seems InfoPath fits right in with the concepts of the SharePoint portal server to help make information within a company available on the companies intranet. I would imagine you would see the extension associated with SharePoint driven sites then due to the nature of what SharePoint is and how it uses InfoPath's ability to take XML based data and render it to a webpage.