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Can't debug into a MOSS Webpart
I am doing some work at present where I need to debug into webparts hosted in a MOSS 2007 server. Never an easy set of debugging to get right. To try to ease the process I wrote a WinForm test application that just calls the webpart method with test parameters...

Posted 24 August 2007 13:10 by But it works on my PC!

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Installing VS2008Beta2 from an ISO
I tried to install Visual Studio Beta 2 from an ISO today using the Virtual CD Rom tool . This mounted the ISO fine as drive Z: but when I ran the setup.exe I got an error that it could not load the SITSetup.dll, even though this was in the ISO. I copied...

Posted 16 August 2007 12:37 by But it works on my PC!

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Getting HTC Phonepad to work on an Orange SPV M700
Some time ago I upgraded my Orange mobile to an M700. It's a very nice phone indeed, and the ability to be able to use TomTom 6 on it as well saves me having to varry around yet another electronic device. One thing about it did however annoy me - there...

Posted 07 August 2007 16:58 by Andy Dawson

Web development helpers: Redux
After posting yesterday about useful tools for development I stumbled across another little gem of a utility. IE7Pro is much more of a usability-enhancing tool but it has a wonderfully handy tool nestling within - Save Current Tab As Image. If you need...

Posted 26 July 2007 08:59 by When software attacks!

SharePoint problems with access rights
I spent a while knocking my head against a problem with a SharePoint server farm that's worth posting about. It's also worth a big hats-off to our Technical Support Coordinator at Microsoft Partner Support who dredged up the article that finally pointed...

Posted 18 July 2007 10:18 by When software attacks!

Empty Reports with the eScrum Template
After I installed the eScrum template everything seemed fine bar the reports, only the work item report showed anything, in fact on the other reports their parameter combo boxes were empty. The key difference is the workitem report is drawn form the SQL...

Posted 12 July 2007 13:40 by But it works on my PC!

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Losing all files when moving a project in TFS Source Control
Problem Today I tried to move VS2005 solution in TFS source control from one Source Control location to another (on the same server) as I had put it in a stupid location to start with. So I unbound the source control (File -> Source Control -> Change...

Posted 12 July 2007 13:17 by But it works on my PC!

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Another stupid way to waste an hour or two.....
When developing SharePoint add-in try to remember if you put a previous version of the DLL in the GAC or not. I have just wasted a couple of hours trying to work out why a new version of a DLL is not being read from a site collection's bin directory,...

Posted 10 July 2007 09:53 by But it works on my PC!

Accessing Virtual Server via VMRC through a ISA firewall with Vista
The problem We have had an insteresting problem, we have a Virtual Server 2007 R2 (Beta), this is accessed both internally on our company network and externally via a ISA 2006 on the Internet. This has been working fine with our XP PCs, but we saw problems...

Posted 03 May 2007 12:30 by But it works on my PC!

Installing SQL2005 SP2 on Vista
We have been having fun installing SQL2005 Developer Edition on Vista PCs with Reporting Services, you need the SP2 for Vista, but installation of this kept stalling with authentication problems. Turns out this is the process to follow: Do a default Install...

Posted 03 May 2007 12:19 by But it works on my PC!

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Update on my old Dell
I posted in the past about all the problems I had with my overheating Dell 5150, and with the problems trying to Vista Beta s working on it. Well an update on both.... After putting new thermal grease on the CPU heatskin it never overheated again With...

Posted 20 April 2007 12:33 by But it works on my PC!

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Follow up on our nVidia RAID problems
I had posted on problems with the nVidia Raid on our SunFire servers. Well I think I now have the root cause of the problems: not the Sun hardware, the nVidia RAID, or Windows 64 bit drivers. All the problems we had were when we used mirrored pairs of...

Posted 15 April 2007 18:03 by But it works on my PC!

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When the server just stops
Today I rebuilt a PC with new drives and all seemed OK, but after 15 minutes or so it kept stopping (no nice shutdown), irrespective of what the PC was doing. I even swapped back the old disks all to no avail, hence I was stumped for a while. The problem...

Posted 12 April 2007 17:37 by But it works on my PC!

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Problems removing McAfee ProtectionPoint 1.5.0 Agent
When your try to remove the McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.5.0 agent using the command frminst /remove=agent you get an error " can't stop service mcafeeframework" if you are using VirusScan 8.5. This is because VirusScan 8.5 has a new option under Access Protection...

Posted 04 April 2007 22:09 by But it works on my PC!

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Moving Microsoft CRM 3.0
I had to move our CRM install this week to new hardware, and I had expected it to be a nasty job. However it turned out to be straight forward, though it is really hard to find any useful Microsoft Dynamics CRM documentation beyond the basic manuals....

Posted 27 March 2007 12:14 by But it works on my PC!

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