Feb 06

I spent a good 24 hours trying to figure this out. Here is what happened:

  1. I wanted to install the IIS Rewrite Module on my server which needed Vista SP1
  2. After installing SP1, the W3SVC service refused to start
  3. I went online and tried to find solutions and couldn’t find anything.
  4. I tried going to Add/Remove windows components to uninstall Windows Activation Service (WAS) and IIS and reinstall them
  5. After reinstalling WAS, I could not reinstall IIS7 and kept getting errors like “Not all components installed successfully” (paraphrased)
  6. Essentially nothing worked. I even called Microsoft but the friendly Indian guy could not help me.

Then I said, “whatever, let’s try again” and I:

  1. Restored my computer to pre-SP1 (using windows restore)
  2. resintalled SP1
  3. got same errors
  4. tried to find a solution again and…

BAM! The wonderful Taylor Mitchell had the only solution I found that worked. Apparently, after installing SP1, my applicationHost.config file lost a setting. Read all about the solution here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistasp/thread/456da543-2301-4ba4-86d2-c3e016554255/

Dec 18

So I’ve been ripping my hair out for a few minutes trying to get a simple div to display correctly in Firefox. The puzzling thing is that it looks great in IE and doesn’t work at all in FF - something that is usually the opposite.

In any case, I’ll cut to the chase - if you’re trying to get a div to display with a min-height and you can’t, for the life of you, figure out why it’s not working in FF, simply set the div to clear on both sides like so:

.SomeClass
{
  min-height: 39px;
  clear: both;
  padding: 5px;
}

The padding is just for my purposes.
Good luck!