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Just a quick little post today: I got the error "The Path 'path' is already mapped in workspace 'workspace'" when I connected to a new Team Foundation Server and tried to map my workspace today. I had connected to a Team Foundation Services project a while back to get some shared...
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A rather long title for this post, but that’s exactly what happened: when I opened an ASP.NET MVC 4 project with a cshtml view open, Visual Studio would crash with the error messages seen on the right. This would only occur if the first project I opened had a cshtml file open. When I opened another ...
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My Microsoft Touch Mouse stopped scrolling in Visual Studio on my Windows 8 machine some time ago. Because this kills productivity, I wanted to fix the problem. After trying some things I found that the problem only occurred when I ran Visual Studio as Administrator . Searching a bit further I found...
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I opened a solution in Visual Studio 2012 on my laptop running Windows 8, when I was presented with the error " The Web Application Project SomeWebProject is configured to use IIS. Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine. "...
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Just a quick one: if you have a textbox with a Calendar (extender) from the Ajax Control Toolkit and an associated PopupButtonID which is an image, the calendar won't close when you click outside the popup. Use an input type="image"or an ImageButton to solve this problem. Hope this helps...
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When building an ASPapplication that generates Word documents, it was working fine on the local machine. A windows XP installation with Office 2007. When we deployed it to windows 2008 (64 bit) and Word 2007 we saw that Documents.Open returned null. Other than this, there are no exceptions. The code...
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When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP (or, according to the comments, Windows 7) development machine that has been around for quite some time, I got an error stating an unhandled exception occured in the application (see image). The error showed up directly upon startup and read: An error...
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When installing the Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio (found here ), you might get the error message shown on the right, stating that Windows Server AppFabric is installed and that it is not compatible with this release of Windows Azure AppFabric Developer Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...
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In case this helps someone track down a silly little defect… I have an orchestration that uses an outbound map on a send port. The map had a script shape that had incorrect xslt. Simply running the Test Map would have caught this one and saved me some time. The full detail of the Exception...
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Saving a file from Silverlight using the SaveFileDialog , added in Silverlight 3, is easy. If you’re used to desktop development however, you might find yourself getting a SecurityException with the message ‘File operation not permitted. Access to path 'xxx' is denied.’. Here’s why: In desktop...
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Recently I was working on a sandboxes solution, which included a WebTemplate ( Vesa "Vesku" Juvonen wrote a really nice post about it), but I couldn't deploy it, the followin error was displayed into Visual Studio 2010: Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception...
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For a project I’ll probably dedicate a post on this blog to in the future, I needed a ZIP library for Silverlight. After asking around on twitter ( @rickvdbosch ) I was pointed towards the SharpZipLib port on Codeplex, found on http://slsharpziplib.codeplex.com . Basically what I wanted to do was replace...
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The above scenario gave me the well-known could not load file or assembly error message. The assembly that couldn’t be found was ‘log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304’. Or one of its dependencies of course… The situation in which I was getting this error message...
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In a BizTalk 2006r2 solution, we encountered a build issue with BizTalk where a map that referenced a particular schema was causing BizTalk to fail to build. The symptom was that Visual Studio would continually build until it ran out of memory. The cause of the issue was tracked down to a particular...
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BizTalk integration with SharePoint is … interesting. Using the Add Generated Items… Consume WCF service might result in a proxy that will not build due to a bad reference. The proxy file Lists_schemas_microsoft_com_sharepoint_soap.xsd contains the bad reference. The reference in particular is...