Someone asked on one of the Microsoft .NET newsgroups how he could check whether or not SP1 for Visual Studio .NET 2003 was installed. Service Pack 1 is published in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as article number 918700 so in order to check whether SP1 is installed you could check for the existance of the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Visual Studio\7.1\S918007
Even better would be to check if the value for the DWORD value "Installed" under this key, is set to 1 which means off course that SP1 for Visual Studio .NET 2003 is installed.
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In case you need to find out the version of the SQL Server installed on a server you could execute the following statement:
SELECT @@VERSION;
Which returns on my development sandbox the following string:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.2047.00 (Intel X86) Apr 14 2006 01:12:25 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
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One of our .NET developers had problems with a ASP.NET application on his machine. Looking at the event viewer there was the following entry:
Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: unable to open shim database version registry key - v2.0.50727.00000
There is a hotfix for this problem and this behaviour is caused because the ASP.NET application needs read/write access to a specific registry key but has only read access. You could also Registry Monitor to check which registry key(s) is causing this behaviour.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918642
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