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  • Getting "failed to start" with a SharePoint workflow

    I have been playing around with some workflow code for a demo I am doing. This has meant creating and deleting a workflow project as I refine the demo. Whilst going through the process of a delete and recreate of the workflow (using the same name for the project/workflow but creating a new project from...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, May 20 2009
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  • Misleading error message adding a user on Windows 2008

    Today I was setting up a new development VPC for SharePoint. When I tried to add a new user via the AD tools wizard I got the error "Windows cannot set the password for [new user], network path was not found" Forums suggest the issue is DNS resolution related, but for me it turned out to be...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, May 13 2009
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  • Testing access attributes on the Microsoft MVC framework

    The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller class; which you can add to as you go along...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, May 1 2009
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  • Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)

    Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily with Visual Studio and Typemock without any need...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Apr 25 2009
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  • System.Web.Abstractions missing on a ASP.NET web site

    I recently re-enabled feature on a ASP.NET site. This feature (a set of pages) had been running OK about six months ago for an initial pilot project but was disabled until now until a decision was made to develop the feature fully. In intervening time the web site had other modification and had been...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Apr 24 2009
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  • Live Writer crashing when adding hyperlinks

    For a while I have had a problem that when I tried to add a hyperlink via the toolbar in Live Writer I get a dialog that Live Writer has stopped working, it doesn’t exit, it just des not open the modal window for adding a hyperlink. It was irritating, but as I could edit the HTML source and put in the...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Apr 3 2009
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  • Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR release - Createdeployment

    Whilst preparing for my session at SQLBits next weekend I was re-watched Gert Drapers' PDC session (TL45) where he used a command tool to deploy a database via a USB pen drive (about 30 minutes into the session) . Now it seems that the createdeployment command line tool he used is not currently available...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sun, Mar 22 2009
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  • Free hotel internet - if you dare touch it

    I have been away at the MVP summit and then on holiday for a couple of weeks. On this trip every hotel I stayed in had free internet, though often only wired. Seem many hotels have Wifi contracts with mobile phone companies and they are still charging for. So top tip make sure you have UTP cable in your...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Mar 20 2009
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  • Error 1722 when installing MVC 1.0

    As I am sure you will have heard the MVC 1.0 has been released. I downloaded this on my Windows 7 and tried to install it but got an Error 1722, the MSI then rolled back. Turns out the problem was simply that I had Visual Studio open at the time I installed, it needs to be closed. It seems the MSI does...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Mar 19 2009
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  • SLExtensions HTMLEditor

    I have been looking at porting a old content editor I wrote from WinForm to SilverLight and hit the problem there was no HTML editor control available in the standard Silverlight 2 control set. Roll in the excellent SLExtensions controls on CodePlex , to save the day..... Now I did hit one problem with...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Feb 25 2009
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  • Missing .NET framework installing a VSTO application

    I have been getting the error "The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer." (event id 4096 in Event log) when trying to install a VSTO application from both a ClickOnce deployment and a local copy. This is interesting as the .NET framework is installed (on...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Feb 7 2009
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  • Writing a webpart to work inside and outside Sharepoint when talking to WCF

    I have posted in the past on porting our ASP.NET bug tracking systems into Sharepoint and also linking it to TFS . The idea being that the initial customer support contact is tracked in the call tracking system e.g. is it switched on, is there paper in it....., and then escalated to TFS when development...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Jan 28 2009
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  • Problem hosting WCF using Cassini on Windows 7

    I have been working on an internal legacy application at our place that is being slowly moved from ASMX to WCF services. At present the services are a mixture of the two and there is a new WCF based client making connections to both types as needed. This work has been going on for a while on Vista development...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Jan 24 2009
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  • Installing an MSI on Windows 7 fails after 16th January 2009

    I am using Windows 7 Beta on my main PC, whilst trying to install an application today I hit a problem, the installer failed on start-up. Firstly I thought it was a corrupt MSI so I tried another application, but it did the same. When I checked the Windows Application event log I found the following...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jan 19 2009
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  • MSB3155 errors in Team build when publishing to click once

    If your team build project uses the Publish Target option (to create a ClickOnce deploy) you may see the error BuildWallboard.csproj" (Publish target) (3:5) -> (_DeploymentGenerateBootstrapper target) -> MSB3155: Item 'Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1' could not be located in BuildWallboard'...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Dec 22 2008
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  • TFS TeamBuild and Sharepoint WSP deployment (and any post build events for that matter)

    We use the SharePoint Visual Studio Project Template on CodePlex to create WSP deployment packages for our SharePoint features. I tend to think of this WSP creation project in the same way as a MSI installer; so we don’t put SharePoint components into the WSP solution itself, it is an extra project in...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Dec 19 2008
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  • Windows 7 on the Dell Mini

    I don’t recommend having automatic update switched on (which is the default) for Windows 7. Yesterday my Windows 7 install decided to install 20 updates. It rebooted and then rebooted again and again. My guess is that a driver updated and killed the boot process. It did try to go into the automatic fix...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Nov 14 2008
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  • Page views not updated in community server

    Since we added the new themes to our community server we have not been getting any updates on the Blogs control panel as to the number of times a post has been viewed (by the aggregate views via RSS are incremented OK) After a bit of digging it seems that we missing the IncrementViewCount flag on the...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Nov 6 2008
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  • TF53010 & TF213000 unable to load

    I got this error when installing TFS 2008. In the error log I could see the problem was when the TfsGssInit.exe   was run, it said Detailed Message: TF213000: A required user account could not be added during installation or repair of Team Foundation Server.  The installation or repair failed...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Oct 24 2008
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  • TF220050 error in TFS install

    Whilst doing a new TFS 2008 dual tier install I was getting a failure with a TF220050 error when I entered the data tier DB instance name. The setup wizard just said ‘failed to connect to data tier’, but you can find the actual error number in the install logs to be found under C:\Documents and Settings...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Oct 24 2008
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