Category: Development
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Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list
You might see following error when browse your application site targeting ASP.NET 4.0 on IIS 7 or 7.5 server. HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list Cause & Solution If IIS is enabled after DotNet 4 installation then ASP.NET is not registered with IIS.…
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Configure WordPress to Use Proxy
If you setup a WordPress site on a server in intranet behind a proxy, you might get following error when you search plugins and themes in admin console. An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request. This is because WordPress does not know the proxy server to talk to external internet. To resolve this,…
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Common TFS commands
tf.exe is Team Foundation source control command-line tool which can be used to perform source control operations without GUI interaction. Here are some common tf commands I use in my daily work. You can run command tf /? to view more or visit MSDN TF Command Line Tool Reference Common tf commands sync Sync files…
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How to debug msbuild issues
To debug msbuild build failures, you can run following from VS command prompt to get more build log output msbuild /v:diag <solutionname> If you want to log messages for debug during build, you can use Message tasks. For example, use Message task inside a target <Target Name="DisplayMessages"> <Message Text="Project File Name = $(MSBuildProjectFile)" />…
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SQL Server Version History
By default you can’t restore a sql backup that was taken from a higher version sql server. Otherwise you might get following error when doing restore. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.1600. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 10.00.2714. Either restore the database on…
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Configure PowerShell to use DotNet 4.0
You might get following error when you load a snap-in that is written by DotNet 4.0. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded. This is because by default, PowerShell uses DotNet version 2.0 CLR. To use powershell load DotNet 4.0 assemblies, the following settings need…
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How to run ps1 scripts
PowerShell scripts are text files with ".ps1" extensions that contain PowerShell commands. Starting with Windows Server 2008, PowerShell is built into the OS. For earlier OS versions, you will need to download PowerShell at Microsoft PowerShell Site and install it. To run ps1 scripts, you first need to enable scripts by running: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Otherwise,…
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Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7
Microsoft are now giving away the eBook Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold. For detail information of this ebook, view http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/10/28/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-by-charles-petzold.aspx You can download a PDF here (38.6 MB). And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).
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[ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
If you run osql.exe utility on server that does not have SQL server installed, you might get following error: [ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified. This is because osql utility uses ODBC API to communicate to SQL server and SQL ODBC driver is not installed. To fix this,…
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Grant Permission to DefaultAppPool Identity
After upgrading web applications to IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, you might get following error. Access to the path ‘d:sitecache.txt’ is denied. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.…