The Problem: You attempt to create a new Coded User Interface Test in Visual Studio 2010, and you get the following error:
The following package failed to load: C:Users[File Path Goes Here]Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.IE.dll. Coded UI Test is now in an inconsistent state. Remove this package and restart Visual Studio to work with Coded UI Test.
The Cause: For whatever reason, Visual Studio does not copy Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.IE.dll into the solution, and but it thinks it did.
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The Problem: You attempt to do a query using Linq To Entities and your code does not work.
The Cause: For reasons unknown, Linq to Entities has different operators than Linq To Sql.
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I pieced all of this together from various sources online, so the code is a bit rough, but here it is:
1. Create a partial razor view, call it _NotifyBar.cshtml, it contains this:
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The Problem: For whatever reason, your website is displaying a white screen with “Service Unavailable” and nothing else.
The Cause: There could be many causes, but the one I just discovered was that the application pool had shut down for no good reason.
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I recently read Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t and the original CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers post from Expensify. For a quick summary
Starting Fact:
- Startups are risk taking places
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The Problem: You move servers, and for unknown reasons all smtp services stop working. You search forever, but there are no error messages being given and nothing in the event log
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I was trying to update my main app code to utilize the .Net Framework 4.0 and this happened:
The Problem: I could find no obvious way to update the mscorlib reference in my solution, so I decide to simply delete it and add it again, and hope that it magically updates to the most recent version. This is actually what usually happens with Visual Studio. However, I delete the mscorlib reference, and I am unable to add it back again, I get the error message telling me that mscorlib is already included in the project.
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Sorry for the blog silence so far, I’m still working on my post on programming and endurance sports. I also have started using Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4. So far I’m impressed by both.
photo credit: Wonderlane
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The Problem: You upload your wonderful Silverlight application to a new server and begin to get all sorts of strange errors, most notably something like this
Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application An exception occurred during the operation, making the result invalid. Check InnerException for exception details. at System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs.RaiseExceptionIfNecessary()
at StronicoMain.ServerUtil.AddressTypeListCompletedEventArgs.get_Result()
at StronicoMain.Page.proxy_AddressTypeListCompleted(Object sender, AddressTypeListCompletedEventArgs e)
at StronicoMain.ServerUtil.ServerUtilClient.OnAddressTypeListCompleted(Object state)
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.servername.com/Silverlight.js
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While pondering installing Visual Studio 2010, as well as thinking how all software is moving to a subscription basis, I had the thought – why not do two predictable releases a year? The first release, say in January, would be whatever new features were in place by that date. The second release, say in July, would be a pure performance and usability release, as the development team would spend half the year optimizing and tweaking the code, as well as fixing all bugs. Any new “Features” would have at least six months to cook in the minds of the developers and would be implemented on a much stronger code base. Continue reading “Thoughts on predictable software scheduling” »
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