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If you are having trouble with installing, uninstalling or reinstalling Silverlight on your Windows 8 machine, then these steps will likely to help you to perform a clean uninstall of Silverlight from your Windows 8 machine: Steps to manually clean...

Recently I have dealt with few cases where a Silverlight app keeps on crashing on few machines while it works fine on others regardless of browser versions. As you can sense, this is likely a machine specific issue and something to do with the installed...

If you keep being prompted to install Silverlight when it is already installed, then you are at the right place (hopefully!) . There can be different reasons for the failure. Here I am listing some of the most common causes and their corresponding solutions...

Issue: System.Net.HttpWebRequest uses a socket that is closed in some special scenarios. (In this case it is due to some custom applications implement SSL not fully following RFC and so SSL alert caused socket to be closed forceily) In this case, to...

Issue: when data size exceeds a limit (e.g. 50000Bytes), Silverlight application throw "NotFound" error when communicating with WCF service at backend Troubleshooting Tips: The symptom tells us the issue is due to a limit between Silverlight and WCF...

Issue: After upgrading Silverlight application from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5, updating data via RIA service throws Error "The property '<xxxxxx - a key property name>_id' is part of the object's key information and cannot be modified." ...

If you try to install RIA(Rich Internet Application), you need to have either Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer installed on your machine. Hosting servers do not generally have Visual Studio installed and this may cause a blocker for them. Fortunately...

Glimpse is a great open source diagnostic tool for web applications. Glimpse runs in your browser (it’s all HTML, so no plug-ins required), and it gives you a glimpse into what’s happening on the server when your code executes. You can see what methods...

If your website hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites is displaying an error message that doesn’t include the details you need to fix the problem, enabling detailed error messages is often a good choice to obtain more information. Once you enable detailed...

I recently worked on a project where we were able to compile and run the Silverlight Business App , but none of the breakpoints were working. We added a breakpoint in the Silverlight code, as well as, one in the RIA code but code was not breaking while...

One of the great things about Windows Azure Web Sites is being able to create a web site in seconds that uses MySQL for your data. With your Azure subscription, you are entitled to a free MySQL database. You can’t manage this database within the Azure...

This is the first in a series of Microsoft CTS Screencasts on using Windows Azure Web Sites. Troubleshooting performance issues in the cloud can be tough. If you are dealing with slowness for a particular page in your Windows Azure Web Sites site, you...

This post applies to Windows Azure Web Sites. These steps do not apply if you are using a Web Role. Windows Azure Web Sites makes it quick and easy to create a WordPress blog hosted in Azure. However, if you create a WordPress blog using the Gallery in...

We recently worked on a project where we wanted to pass multiple values in a Where clause when calling RIA services. The issue seems trivial when we think of where...in clause in TSQL, but for RIA services, we need a little extra tricks. Rather than letting...

Recently we have worked on few issues where we had to configure WCF services with SSL so that we could consume them from Silverlight via HTTPS. Rather than let good research go to waste, I am posting the steps here. We will divide the concept in following...

We worked on an interesting issue where WCF was hosted as windows service. Data was Pushed from WCF Server to Silverlight client via Sockets every 2 sec. Processing WCF-pushed data is the bulk of the task that this Silverlight Application does. The app...

If you are trying to figure out why your WCF RIA Service's method calls(or just the regular WCF Service for that matter) throwing the infamous “ NotFound ” error, you are at the right place. This is basically Silverlight’s way of telling...

In the recent weeks, I have encountered two different instances of the same stumbling block: Losing coding intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 in Silverlight 5 Business Application Project while using WCF RIA services. Both projects had all the needed...

Introduction If you have developed a solution using WCF RIA and Silverlight and would like to use additional clients such as WPF with your WCF RIA services this article will show you one way it can be done. Building the Sample This sample was designed...

  Here are the steps to profile Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Web Server using NP .NET Profiler.   Download NP .NET Profiler tool from here Download the x86 version as Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Web Server is 32-bit process Extract...

  NP .NET Profiler can now profiler Windows Store Application running on Windows 8 machines. You can download the tool from here . Instructions Download the NPStoreApp.zip from here Extract it to c:\temp\np folder Double click on the NPStoreApp.exe...

  In this blog post, we are going to show how to use NP .NET Profiler to troubleshoot performance issues within Windows Store Applications. You can download the tool from here . Lets say we have a Windows Store Application that is taking time to...

  There are many options to troubleshoot memory leak issues in .NET applications. Most common approach is capturing a memory dump just before terminating the process and looking at the object count and gcroots. Most of the time this approach works...

  In this blog post, we are going to show how to use NP .NET Profiler to capture a memory dump on unhandled exception in Windows Store Applications. You can download the profiler tool from here . Whenever a Windows Store Application gets terminated...

  We recently released a .NET Profiler tool for troubleshooting Windows Store Applications on Windows 8 machines. You can download this tool from here . In this blog post, we will talk about how to launch a Windows Store Application under a debugger...