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February 12, 2010March 11, 2019

Control Panel Search Tip for Windows Vista/Windows 2008

In order to search for any Control Panel item, you should not use “Classic View”. As an example, if you want to turn off UAC (not recommended though), you search for “uac” with the normal Control Panel view and the option should come out. The good news is the issue is fixed in Windows 7, …

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December 12, 2006March 11, 2019

Using MSDTC between Vista clients and Windows 2000 servers

Background Consider the following two scenarios: 1. You have implemented a .NET application accessing a specific COM+ service with automatic transaction processing. You derived a class from ServicedComponent, set the Transaction attribute for the class, and applied the Automatic attribute to a method which opens a SqlConnection. 2. Inside a TransactionScope, you wanted to open …

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