For those who don't know, Virtual PC is a software product that allows you to run another operating system (Windows XP, Linux, or even Windows 3.1) "virtually" from inside a single computer. You'll see that PC load in a window and act as if it was a virtual PC (more info here).

I am a big fan of VPC, its cool, you don’t have to format your hard drive each and every time you want to try a new OS of software. And especially when you want to try the new Betas.

Hope this info helps you!!

-Rujith

I don’t use IIS to develop web applications, since I started using Visual Studio 2005(at least in my home PC). So after long time I wanted to use IIS in my home PC to create a sample web application I found my IIS is not WORKING !!!!... I couldn’t start my IIS….

Well this was the error I was getting is ‘Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred.’ What do I understand from this, or how do I find out what the reason for the error. After doing a simple google I found my port 80 is used by some other application, using netstat, I found its been used by Skype.

So these are the possible solutions which you might want to use in case you come across similar problem.

Solution 1: change the TCP port from 80 to some other port 81 or so. To do this go to Run->type inetmgr -> Right click default website -> Properties -> in web site tab you can see TCP port.  Change the port to use any other free port. This solution is not recommended if you are developer who uses IIS. The reason being, if you are not using default port, you will have to explicitly specify the port for all the local websites. Like http://localhost:81/yourpage.aspx.

Solution 2: Pretty simple one, stop Skype or in Skype properties window under connection tab, you can uncheck the check which says Skype will use port 80 as an alternative port. After this, you will have to re start skype. And start your webserver…

NJoy

Rujith