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I am trying to determine which Windows OS is running on a machine, programmatically. I am able to get the Major Version, Minor Version, Revision, which SP, etc, etc, etc. What I am in need of is determining which version of Win2k and Win2K3 are running on machines (i.e. Win2K Pro, Win2k Server, Win2k Advanced Server, etc) :confused:. Does anyone out there have any idea on how to capture this info without interrogating a domain controller/AD or WMI (too slow)? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Mike

I suppose I should have qualified this a bit better. The pages appear to load fairly well, my problem is when I try to download code. I've tried a couple of times over the last few days to download the zips from the Razor framework http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/RazorPt1.asp[^] with no success. I'm sitting on a T3, and have little to no problems getting to other web sites, so..... Anyway, if nobody else is having issues, I'll chock it up to my bad luck.

Is it just me or does the bandwidth from CP appear to be a slow drip?

I'm having some issues with an attempt to serialize an object to file using a BinaryFormatter. The error I keep getting is: The type System.Runtime.Remoting.ServerIdentity in Assembly mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 is not marked as serializable. Problem #1, I have no idea where I am referencing ServerIdentity. This is the method I am running in at the time of error: Private Shared Sub DumpUnprocessedDeployments() Try Dim cntr As Integer = CollInstance.Count If cntr > 0 Then logger.WriteLog("Dumping " + cntr.ToString.Trim() + " unprocessed deployments....") Dim s As Stream = File.Open("bin\webdeploy.dmp", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite) Dim bf As New BinaryFormatter Dim dpl As Deployment Dim al As New ArrayList For Each dpl In CollInstance logger.WriteLog(dpl.Project + " " + dpl.State + " " + dpl.Package + " Requester: " + dpl.User, False) bf.Serialize(s, dpl) ' <=== ERRORS OUT HERE Next s.Close() Else logger.WriteLog("No Unprocessed Deployments to Dump") End If Catch ex As Exception logger.WriteLog("An ERROR was Encountered while Generating the Dump File....") logger.WriteLog(ex.Message, False) End Try End Sub Here is the Code for the Serialized Object: Imports System Imports CM.WebDeployment.Interfaces Public Class Deployment Inherits MarshalByRefObject Implements IDeployment Private IsPending As Boolean Private RunWhen As Date Private FTPDir As String Private FTPPwd As String Private FTPSvr As String Private FTPUsr As String Private HPkg As String Private HPwd As String Private HProj As String Private HState As String Private HUsr As String #Region " Object Constructor(s) " Public Sub New() MyBase.New() End Sub Public Sub New(ByVal HarProj As String, ByVal HarState As String, ByVal HarPackage As String, _ ByVal HarUser As String, ByVal HarPassword As String, ByVal FServer As String, _ ByVal FDir As String, ByVal FUser As String, ByVal FPassword As String, _ ByVal RunTime As Date) MyBase.New() HProj = HarProj HState = HarState HPkg = HarPackage HUsr = HarUser

Another SCM tool (again, with a high price tag) is CA's Allfusion Harvest. It's not too bad to work with and is incredibly flexible. My biggest gripe about it, coming from a primarilly Microsoft shop is the fact that it only runs on Oracle (though the developers at CA have told me for the past 2 years they were looking at adding SQL server as a back end). Another good thing about it is the integration into the VS IDEs (both 6 and .NET) looks and feels like VSS. One good feature that is also available (not an add on, it actually comes with the product) is their web front end. You can set the product up to fully work across the internet. The biggest issue I have with it is the fact that is is Java based, and again we're primarilly a MS shop. Learning curve involved with setting up Jakarta/Tomcat as opposed to rolling it into IIS :-D. My 2.