While trying to compile a demo Silverlight application, I ran into this build error: System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by […]
My Samsung Focus came in the mail today to replace the old iPhone 3G I was trying to use. I say trying because with each OS release my old iPhone would get slower and slower. While the iPhone 4 looks like an improvement over the 3G (click here for the apple comparison), I like the […]
Step 1: Download the latest Zune software from http://www.zune.net/en-US/products/software/download/default.htm (which should be the single file ZuneSetupPkg.exe). If you just run ZuneSetupPkg.exe you will get this lovely message: I can only assume Windows Server 2008 is not supported to save on QA time yet the software is running fine for me. Step 2: Start-up a cmd.exe […]
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply; Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Goethe (1749-1832)
The build-in hot key combo to pull up Windows Task Manager is Ctrl+Shift+Esc which appears to have been in Windows since XP (or earlier). And all this time I’ve been right-clicking on the task bar.
I made an error with formatting in a blog posting after inserting a code snippet into Live Writer using Paste from Visual Studio. Like in Microsoft Word, I found it near impossible to correct my error from the Edit tab of Live Writer. Luckily Live Writer provides a Source tab making it possible (although tedious) […]
Want to kill an hour? Forget to include a primary key constraint on a SQL table and use the Visual Studio auto-generated dataset. You will get this error when issuing the Update() command on an adapter: “Update requires a valid UpdateCommand when passed DataRow collection with modified rows.” If you look at the code in […]
After you have built your release WCF Service Library .dll in VS 2010, when deploying to IIS 7, the .dll file(s) should go under the bin folder of the application root of the web site. This must be common knowledge, but it took me a few “bings” to find the answer from this link: … […]
To make sure IIS 7 is setup to work with the latest WCF and .Net 4 framework, use these two utilities: aspnet_regiis.exe and ServiceModelReg.exe. On an x64 machines, both of these utilities can be found in the folder: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 From a command prompt launched with “Run as administrator” rights run aspnet_regiis –i –enable Per MSDN, […]
[DebuggerDisplay("Customer={CustomerName} Phone={CustomerPhone}")] class WEOTestClass { public WEOTestClass(string _name, string _phone) { CustomerName = _name; CustomerPhone = _phone; } public string CustomerName { get; set; } public string CustomerPhone { get; set; } public override string ToString() { return( "Customer: " + CustomerName + " Phone: " + CustomerPhone ); } } For viewing classes when […]