Nikolais Rant

If you are getting "Parser Error Message: Access is denied: 'Some Assembly'." and "Source Error: < add assembly = < * > / >" sometimes when you are running your web applications it maybe because of index server. Here are some tips to sort it... Easiest being stopping Index Server.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329065

Care of http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/deepak/archive/2004/10/14/885.aspx

Well I am about to begin my journey into VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 using Virtual Server to host my development environment. Here is a quick tip just incase you have some issues getting the server up and running.

When attempting to fire up the Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC) Server and you keep getting 'Virtual Server could not start the VMRC server. Another server may be using the selected TCP/IP port.' run the following command to check which application is hogging the tcp/ip port 5900

From Steve Radich blog Permalink
To display the listening ports on a server you can do (From a command prompt):

netstat -ano | find ""

For example the newsgroup post is about virtual server which uses port 5900. You could do:

netstat -ano | find "5900"

This would return something like:

TCP 0.0.0.0:5900 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 320

You can then launch Task Manager and find that task ID. If Task Manager doesn't show the process id column then you can (in task manager) go to View - Select Columns - PID (Process Identifier).

Thanks Steve