End of an era for this blog…
Dear readers I've not blogged a lot in recent years but from tomorrow I will officially no longer blog here. I've not decided whether, where or if I will blog in the future. Time will tell. For the...
View ArticleRSS and Atom feeds for support content
Thanks to a new service from our content team, you can now get an Atom or RSS feed for a wide variety of support content categories, e.g. .NET Framework, .NET Core, Visual Studio or many other...
View ArticleGenGetProcessInfo.Start(0x1234) failed, 0x800700ea
This is rather obscure but seems to come up every so often. Here 0x1234 would be the process ID of the process that we were attempting to dump. The Win32 error is 0x800700ea The issue here was that one...
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Open the Visual Studio Output windows with the keyboard
I am not great with keyboard shortcuts. I use quite a few but my repertoire is a bit limited. One thing that frustrated me for a while though was the apparent lack of a shortcut to bring up the Output...
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Troubleshooting exceptions in a Windows Phone app
You know the situation – you develop and debug your app, all works well and you deploy it onto the phones of a few testers or friends. Then, you get reports of the app just disappearing. An app...
View ArticleFile version history for CLR 4.x
In the past I have maintained some blogs posts about version histories of the CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0. People seem to have found those useful over the years but they have become quite tough to maintain....
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace
Exciting announcements yesterday about the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace. Find out more about Red Hat solutions on Azure here. /D
View ArticleUnable to build a simple Cordova app in Visual Studio? Here’s a possible fix…
It is not so often these days that support cases have a quick solution. With the wealth of forums and other channels for peer assistance, most straightforward issues get fixed before people call us. So...
View ArticleVersion history of the CLR 4.0
Following on from my “Version history of the CLR 2.0” post I’ve decided to start one for 4.0. The below generally only refer to patches affecting core CLR files clr.dll, not the rest of the...
View ArticlePasswordVault.Add may fail on Windows 10
I am slightly embarrassed by the length of time since my last blog post. But never mind, here I am again! I’ve been working on a customer issue lately where an existing Windows Store app was failing...
View ArticleUpcoming webinars from @WSDevSol
Some upcoming webinars, first one today! Brought to you by members of the Windows Store Developer Solutions team in Microsoft Customer Service and Support. Debugging your Direct3D apps for Windows...
View ArticleTechEd 2014 is underway with LOTS of exciting new stuff announced!
TechEd North America 2014 is underway! You can find an overview of the announcements on Soma and Brian’s blogs. Below are some resources of particular interest to developers News & Videos: Read...
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Script Browser and Script Analyzer
Microsoft has just released two new resources to ease IT Pros’ lives. · Script Browser – IT Pros can search, download and manage 9000+ TechNet automation script samples covering almost all Microsoft IT...
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Microsoft EMEA IIS/ASP.NET and web developer support team
I recently attended an offsite meeting in Munich for our Microsoft EMEA IIS/ASP.NET and web developer support team. It’s the first time we’ve had the chance to get together in one place for several...
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“Script Error encountered", "'__doPostBack' is undefined” or...
You may receive this error in the browser using Internet Explorer 10: “Script Error encountered", "'__doPostBack' is undefined” Fixes are now available for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.51 (Windows 7 /...
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“System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070102): Operation failed”...
I recently had a support case where the customer was trying to send a fax from an ASP.NET application but was getting this error when they did: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070102):...
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You spent HOW much on our new server and the app slowed DOWN??!!
I had a support case recently where the customer had moved their server farm onto brand new hardware, each server with lots of CPUs. At the same time they had taken the operating system from Windows...
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How to figure out why your web application is running slow.
I came across this great “portal article” (by which I mean it has links to resources on a particular topic) about Developer Tools & Platforms Performance It starts of with a short plug for...
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FIX: Inline data-binding expressions in a templated web user control...
We've now published the KB article for a new hotfix that arose from a customer case I was working on recently: FIX: Inline data-binding expressions in a templated web user control disappear after you...
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MS10-070 - Important ASP.NET security bulletin and update available
On Tuesday we released a very important security bulletin and update for ASP.NET. If you are responsible for an ASP.NET web server please take the time to review the information and act accordingly....
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