How to Obtain the Dell Service Tag Remotely

June 28, 2012 - Posted in Applications, Articles, System Info - Permalink

Connect remotely to the Dell computer.
Navigate to the “Start” menu and select “Run.”

In the Run dialog, type “cmd” (without quotes) and click “OK.”

Type “wmic bios get serialnumber” (without quotes). Press “Enter.”


C:\Documents and Settings\User>wmic bios get serialnumber

SerialNumber
5LMY1D1

The computer responds with information from the Dell remote computer. The information below “Serial Number” is the Dell system service tag.

To obtain the make and model number, type “wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber” (without quotes). Press “Enter.”

Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider is not registered

June 21, 2012 - Posted in .NET 4.0, Access, application pool, Applications, ASP.NET, Error, system error, VS2010 - Permalink

Basically, if you’re on a 64-bit machine, IIS 7 is not (by default) serving 32-bit apps, which the database engine operates on. So here is exactly what you do:

1) ensure that the 2007 database engine is installed, this can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E038C891&displaylang=en

2) open IIS7 manager, and open the Application Pools area. On the right sidebar, you will see an option that says “Set application pool defaults”. Click it, and a window will pop up with the options.

3) the second field down, which says ‘Enable 32-bit applications’ is probably set to FALSE by default. Simply click where it says ‘false’ to change it to ‘true’.

4) Restart your app pool (you can do this by hitting RECYCLE instead of STOP then START, which will also work).

5) done, and your error message will go away

Retrieve HTML form input in code behind (vb.net)

June 5, 2012 - Posted in .NET 4.0, Applications, VS2010 - Permalink
Markup page

<input type="text" name="customer" value="< %= Session("Customer") %>">

Code behind

Dim CustomerName As String = Request.Form("customer")
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