I use Virtual PC a lot, especially for development. I try to emulate a mini-infrastructure of how I’ll be deploying my solutions, so no SQL Server on my box, no IIS on my box, etc. To support this I use Virtual PC Guy’s steps for enabling communication between my host and the VPC’s. If you are on an Active Directory environment this can have a pretty negative impact on name resolution, specifically when browsing through “My Network Places” (XP) or just “Network” (Vista). 
If you are running into this and it bugs you, go into your Microsoft Loopback Adapter properties and disable/uncheck “Client for Microsoft Networks”. I personally disable everything except Virtual Machine Network Services and IPv4 since this just a small private network running on my computer.
Archive for March, 2008
Virtual PC and Network Places
March 21st, 2008So What’s Your Windows Experience Score?
March 21st, 2008I realize this isn’t the MiniMVC post I promised, but that one is a monster and I wanted to feel like I accomplished something this evening.
Last week I was forced to replace a dying video card which was a piece-of-junk when I bought it, but, well, I’m cheap. I picked up an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and while not the best, it’s more than I’ll need.
When I built this rig, I picked up about the best available at the time. Looking at my latest Windows Experience Score, I’m sort of regretting not picking up the Intel 6800 Core 2 Duo, though it was significantly more expensive than the 6600 I did choose. I guess I can’t fault the decision based on the facts at the time. That said, my Dell M1530 has the 6800 and I swear it’s a friggin’ beast.
What’s your score?
IIS 7 is so cool
March 21st, 2008I’m so behind on IIS 7 it makes me sad. I love HttpModules and HttpHandlers in ASP.Net (Speedy Rewards transaction processing is based on one I wrote), but this just takes the cake.
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