Author: BuggyBrain

While moving a part of code from a console application to a SSIS package we started getting compile time error System.IO.Packaging namespace not found.

This seemed like a very basic thing as System.IO namespace is found in System.dll but having System.dll as a part of solution increased the confusion.

A quick Bing returned that its a part of WindowsBase.dll, referring WindowsBase.dll solved the issue.

This a a good example of “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” as not requiring to refer WindowsBase.dll frequently made me forget that it even exists.

It’s been a while since I have been writing blogs and messing around with blogspot, wordpress, moving to a personal hosting and then switching the host as well as the domain name to a new one. I am no hardcore blogger and I post only when I am getting bored and I have got nothing else to do with life. But while going through posts on one such Day I realized that the blogs I have written look really bad (I know they are bad to read as well but the look and feel just kill the motivation to read).

Realization: Blogs look Bad so readers don’t read hence less torture for readers.

Reason: Atleast Make it look a bit better and Writing blog with Word doesn’t help you do proper formatting.

Solution: Use Windows Live Writer as it tells you how your blog will look like with real formatting and also helps you manage blog properly.

Problem: Couldn’t install Windows Live Writer. “Please try installing Windows Live programs again.”

Reason: Who Cares?

Workaround: Download “Windows Live Essentials” and install from there.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials

** This might be the last bad looking Post. From now on you will have to read the posts I’ll be writing.

You cannot edit quick create ribbon in CRM 2013 like you can do with form, home and sub-grid ribbon. You can neither disable it in supported manner nor can you remove Activities from it. You can not even add OOB entities which don’t support Refresh UI.

You can remove other entities from it like case, competitor etc…

To remove entities open the solution, Navigate to entity and deselect “Allow Quick Create”

Likewise you can add custom entities or refresh ui supporting entiries to quick create.

While trying to integrate CRM 2013 Onpremise and Sharepoint Online we were getting following error.

“Validation could not succeed because the List component could not be detected.

Check that the URL is valid and try again. Click the following URL to verify:”

While we had done everything right and as suggested on MSDN but getting the error was frustrating.

To resolve the error we tried to set the “Display Mixed content” in IE Security settings to “Prompt” (as suggested in one of the blogs)

Also we added https://*.sharepoint.com to trusted site.

When nothing worked we tried going to fiddler on client to see if any request was being sent to SharePoint server from client side and noticed that the request which went was proceeded with a federated login request. Taking the hint from there we logged in to SharePoint from IE (in another tab so that there is an active session) and tried again. It Worked J.

While trying to run a Windows Phone 8 App on Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2012 I was getting compatibility Error.

Resolution:

In order to resolve this issue, you will need to install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 on your system. This will fix the issue.

You can download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 latest Update from Microsoft Download Center

More Error Details:

“This program has compatibility issues”

On clicking Run the program without getting help it gave error regarding Xde.exe

Xde.exe has stopped working.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name:    CLR20r3

Problem Signature 01:    XDE.exe

Problem Signature 02:    8.0.9900.0

Problem Signature 03:    50627a5e

Problem Signature 04:    System.Management

Problem Signature 05:    4.0.30319.33440

Problem Signature 06:    520042ce

Problem Signature 07:    da

Problem Signature 08:    3f

Problem Signature 09:    System.Management.Management

OS Version:    6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.4

Locale ID:    16393   �

Additional Information 1:    5861

Additional Information 2:    5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2

Additional Information 3:    01d7

Additional Information 4:    01d7340064827245f2249cd1f1a7c264

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On looking at event viewer it showed error:

The application (Microsoft Windows Phone Emulator, from vendor Microsoft) has the following problem: Microsoft Windows Phone Emulator is incompatible with this version of Windows. For more information, contact Microsoft.

Long back when Android was in its initial stages. Android 1.6 sdk was out there and Google trying hard to push developers to develop for it using various competitions I downloaded Donut SDK and IDE.

Those were initial days of my career and I had been using Visual Studio as IDE and Eclipse felt like a Haunted Village when compared to Visual Studio which was like a Metropolitan city.

After that experience Developing for Android went out of Window and I missed the train of New and Rising OS.

But it’s never too late to start developing and if you are like me and have phobia to develop in Eclipse and Java there is good news for you. Download Xamarin and start developing for Android and iOS.

You’ll definitely love the experience and the comfort of good ol C#.

http://xamarin.com/

While trying to install Silverlight on Windows 8.1 I got installation error saying that “The same version of Silverlight is already installed”

To fix the issue I followed given steps.

• Ran FixIt 20104 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9831161
• Followed given document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2608523/en
• Reinstalled Silverlight.

This helped solving the issue and reinstalling Silverlight.

While trying to run Windows Phone emulator I was facing given error.

The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to create the virtual machine: Something happened while creating a switch: Xde couldn’t find an IPv4 address for the host machine.

Simple Resolution to this problem is:

• Run Hyper-V Manager as Admin
  

  
  

  
  

   

• Go to Action > Virtual Switch Manager.
  

  
  

• Click on “New Network Switch’
  

  
  

   

• Select Internal and Create Virtual Switch
  

  
  

   

• Give Name of Virtual Switch as “Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch”
  

  
  

   

• Click “OK” and restart your machine.
  

   

   

  After following these steps you should be able to run Windows Phone 8 Emulator without any issue.
  

  In case it solves/ doesn’t solve your problem mention that in comments.