Jon Gallant's Blog : solution

Solution to an Unresponsive Zune Pad

jongallant — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:32:01 GMT

The Zune Pad on my 80GB Zune was unresponsive for a day or so and a normal reset or restore didn’t work because they require the Zune pad to be working. This worked for me, give it a try: 1) Plug Zune in computer via USB 2) Go to the Zune Software 3)...(read more)

Boot Windows Server 2008 R2 from SAN using Thin Provision (Virtual Provision) using EMC storage.

jongallant — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:22:09 GMT

Lindison and I had some back and forth on booting from Thin Provision LUN with Windows Server 2008 today and it took him a while to figure out the solution. Thought I’d link it up so ya’ll can easily find. http://lindison.blogspot.com/2009/12/boot-from-thin-provision-lun.htm...(read more)

Solution to the exception: "the data necessary to complete this operation is not yet available" when debugging Windows Mobile apps

jongallant — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:36:14 GMT

The exception "the data necessary to complete this operation is not yet available" can mean that the app you are trying to debug is already running on the device. Go to the device, close the app and try again. HTH Jon...(read more)

Solution to the Exception: Connection failed. The device security configuration disallowed the connection. Ensure that you have the appropriate certificates on your device for development. Review your SDK documentation for proper security settings for conn

jongallant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:35:13 GMT

You will get this exception if you try to debug on a physical device from Visual Studio and haven’t install the debug certificates. “Connection failed. The device security configuration disallowed the connection. Ensure that you have the appropriate certificates...(read more)

Solution to the “You tried to assign the Null value to a variable that is not a Variant data type.” Exception

jongallant — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:15:00 GMT

By default the DataSource wizard passes parameters for AutoNumber primary keys. If you are getting this error: You tried to assign the Null value to a variable that is not a Variant data type. Then you need to remove that default parameter. This is what...(read more)

Solution to the “Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0.” Exception

jongallant — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:09:00 GMT

You are probably using the wrong DbConnection class. If you are using Access then make sure you use OleDbConnection, not SqlConnection…and vice versa. Alternatively you could be referencing your MDB file wrong. Here’s the proper way: <connectionStrings>...(read more)

How to watch ABC.com shows on Windows 7

jongallant — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:33:00 GMT

For some reason ABC.com does an OS check when loading the MoveNetworks player. If you are using Windows 7 you’ll see an error like this: Oops Our new video player is only available for: Windows XP/Vista - Internet Explorer, Firefox Mac - Firefox, Safari....(read more)

Solution to “Operation must use an updateable query” Exception when writing to an Access Database from ASP.NET

jongallant — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:58:00 GMT

Could be a couple of things: The file is marked as read-only. Right click on file, uncheck “read only”. The application pool identity doesn’t have write permissions to the folder that contains the MDB. Find the identity of the application pool (using...(read more)

The simplest DataSet to Excel solution

jongallant — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:51:58 GMT

Tim Mackey has a very simple method for converting DataSets to Excel spreadsheets. http://tim.mackey.ie/HowtoExportADatasetToExcelCAspnet.aspx Thanks Tim!...(read more)

Solution to Method has no implementation (no RVA) Error

jongallant — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:47:05 GMT

If you get this exception System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘x’ from assembly 'xx, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' because the method 'SendMessage' has no implementation (no RVA). Make sure you have a DllImport attribute...(read more)

Delete all Outlook RSS Feeds

jongallant — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:29 GMT

My Outlook RSS Feeds were in a really funky state this morning. I had to create a new profile and I had RSS Sync enabled. When that is the case Outlook re-adds all Feeds that you have ever added to the machine back into your profile even if...(read more)

Solution to the SQL Server 2008 with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Install Exception: "SQL Server 2008 setup requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed"

jongallant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:00 GMT

You would have never guess this by the error message, but ""SQL Server 2008 setup requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed" when you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed means that you need to install Windows Installer 4.5, which can be found here:...(read more)

Solution to the Windows Exception: "The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship"

jongallant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:22:00 GMT

Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn't touched in months: "the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" Not exactly sure why, but changing from a FQDN to a short name resolved...(read more)

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage Mail Header Casing Issue Fixed in .NET 2.0 SP1 & .NET 3.5

jongallant — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:47:00 GMT

With the transition of MailMessage from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail there were some mail header casing changes that caused mail sent to Hotmail and Live email addresses to appear as being successfully sent, but failed to arrive at the destination...(read more)

LINQ: Sequence contains no elements. InvalidOperationException when calling Single

jongallant — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:09:00 GMT

If you call Single to get an object from your DB and the object doesn't exist you will get an InvalidOperationException. return this .DataContext.MemberDaos.Single(m => m.MemberID == id); Instead of Single, use SingleOrDefault, which will return null...(read more)