Tips and tricks from a Developer Support perspective.
While some cases may start of as complex, they sometimes turn out to be caused by something not that complex. As the case always is once you have the solution. So I thought I would share some of the things that I've come across, and hopefully tha
You are trying to install the Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint Products...
Date: 03/03/2015
I came across an issue the other day where the Excel Services failed to start in SharePoint...
Date: 02/12/2015
"Installation of one or more roles, role services, or features failed. Error: 0x800f0922" when installing IIS 8.0 Application Initialization.
The other day I got a case where customer was trying to install the Application Initialization...
Date: 11/19/2013
You have chosen to use Basic Authentication on your web application. You know that you have the...
Date: 10/03/2013
Cases and questions somehow seems to come in bulk. Lately I have had several cases on FTP...
Date: 07/04/2013
I had a case the other day where customer was using WebClient and the DownloadFileAsync method....
Date: 06/12/2013
A short post on how to test your Windows Store apps on your Surface RT. This is not so hard but it...
Date: 05/19/2013
IIS 7.5 - Unable to deploy second server to WFF farm, "Failed to upload assembly 'Microsoft.Web.PlatformInstaller, Version=3.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' on remote agent"
I recently had a case where customer was setting up a web farm using the Web Farm Framework (WFF)....
Date: 02/27/2013
Adding printer with "Internet Printing" gives "Windows couldn’t connect to the printer. Check the printer name and try again."
The scenario is as follows, you have set up your Windows 2008 machine to be using “Internet...
Date: 01/28/2013
The scenario is that you wish to hide the server information that is sent from IIS to the client in...
Date: 11/27/2012
I got a case the other day where customer was using Microsoft Web Deploy 3.0. "Web Deploy 3.0"...
Date: 10/12/2012
I’ve seen a few cases like this, so I thought I do a post on this. The scenario is that you...
Date: 07/13/2012
HTTP Error 500.19 0x8007000d Failed to decrypt attribute 'password' because the keyset does not exist
The scenario. You have a web application that uses Anonymous Authentication. This uses another...
Date: 06/25/2012
"System.InvalidOperationException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool."
Another post on the following exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Timeout expired. The...
Date: 05/21/2012
Sometimes when debugging I realize I forget what different values (NULL, TRUE, FALSE, empty strings...
Date: 05/11/2012
I had a case where UrlScan and in particular [DenyUrlSequences] was needed to be setup. Doing...
Date: 03/30/2012
Ok, so it happened to me again today. I simply wanted to open the SQL Server Configuration Manager....
Date: 03/19/2012
So, you have an application that uses a lot of threads and you would like to know how to trigger a...
Date: 02/27/2012
So, you are running your web application in IIS and intermittently you get an OutOfMemoryException....
Date: 02/14/2012
A fairly short one today. I was playing around with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework Code First and...
Date: 01/25/2012
The other day I wanted a simple example on how to rotate a line from a center of an ellipse in a...
Date: 01/09/2012
A quick one today. I had a case where the customer reported that IIS 6.0 returned Office 2007 / 2010...
Date: 12/01/2011
StackOverflowException. This usually means that you have a recursive call in your code. A recursion...
Date: 11/04/2011
How do I publish a shared calendar using WebDav? If you have ever asked this question then hopefully...
Date: 10/25/2011
How to resolve "Cannot debug pid , NTSTATUS 0xC0000048" - "An attempt to set a process's DebugPort or ExceptionPort was made ..."
Once I found out what was causing this error message it was pretty obvious what was going on. But...
Date: 10/21/2011
Today I’ll show you how to make life easier using ETW (or BID) tracing, Log Parser and a SQL...
Date: 06/27/2011
I had a case were no files were stored (or missing) in the “IIS Temporary Compressed...
Date: 03/07/2011
The other day I wanted to highlight some rows in a datagrid in a WPF project. This is not hard to...
Date: 03/03/2011
Here is my take on how to insert files into a SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM (in short, storing files on...
Date: 02/28/2011
I have now had two cases where customers report that they hit the following exception when using...
Date: 01/28/2011
I had an interesting case the other day which I thought I'd share some information on here.Basically...
Date: 12/15/2010
There is a common misunderstanding on how the Failover Partner keyword in the connectionstring works...
Date: 12/08/2010
Today I’ll show how you can consume a Web Service from within SQL Server using the SQL Server...
Date: 11/25/2010
I had an interesting case the other day and I thought I’d share how we managed to get around...
Date: 11/18/2010
In order to create BID traces for ADO.Net and/or SQLNCLI/10 follow these simplified steps: #1 On the...
Date: 10/22/2010
Sometimes customers call in wondering why they have the following Exception and User Error Message...
Date: 10/22/2010
When connecting to SQL Server and when the connection fails the reason for the error may sometimes...
Date: 06/21/2010
Here is the list of the registry keys used for ODBC connections when using SQLSRV32.dll /...
Date: 05/11/2010
Sometimes we in support need you to take a BID (Built In Diagnostics) or ETW (Event Tracing for...
Date: 05/10/2010
This exception still seems to catch people out when updating, for example, DataSets:...
Date: 04/07/2010
How to run a .Net application with a User Instance database. First of all, be aware that this...
Date: 03/18/2010
A simple way to get Data Binding with WPF and Entity Framework First create two tables for Author...
Date: 03/12/2010
"No value given for one or more required parameters." / "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'DEFAULT'."
A follow up on the post from yesterday. If you forget to add a parameter to a parameterized query,...
Date: 03/04/2010