Netman https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/feed.xml Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:22:01 GMT en-US hourly 1 Virtualbox and moving my previous virtual disk to vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/virtualbox-and-moving-my-previous-virtual-disk-to-vhd Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:30:19 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2012/11/20/virtualbox-and-moving-my-previous-virtual-disk-to-vhd/ Hello

I was trying to clone my old vdi disks to vhd format in order to use them in Hyper-v on Windows 8 OS. According to virtualbox documentation, I must use vboxmanage.exe clonehd xxxx.vdi yyyyy.vhd --format vhd.

 

When I executed the command, vboxmanage gives below error messages.

VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Code CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005) - Server execution failed (extended info not available)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.

 

I binged-it and I found few forum posts that talks about useridentity in COM+ server and permissions. It suggests to change the user identity to local logged on user. Strangely, I couldn't find virtualbox COM+ services on Windows 8.

 

I was using "Administrator:Command Prompt" for cloning since I thought that it is better. With a wild guess,  I opened a regular "Command Prompt" since bing-results were talking about user identity and executed same clonehd command and it worked.

in case you are pulling your hair due to same problem.

Regards,

]]> Entity Framework 4.2 Released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/entity-framework-4-2-released Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:18:34 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/11/02/entity-framework-4-2-released/  

Entity Framework is getting improved. Team has released new version of EF.

Team blog has download link, code walkthroughs.

 

Enjoy,

]]> Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012, Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP 3) Product Guide https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/microsoft-sql-server-2012-community-technology-preview-3-ctp-3-product-guide Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:32:08 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/10/29/microsoft-sql-server-2012-community-technology-preview-3-ctp-3-product-guide/ The SQL Server code name 'Denali' Community Technical Preview 3 (CTP3) Product Guide download contains the latest datasheets, white papers, click-through and auto-running demonstrations, hands-on lab previews, technical presentations, and other useful links to help you evaluate the SQL Server code name 'Denali' CTP3 release. The Product Guide organizes the content for easier viewing.
This version of the includes two new datasheets, one new hands-on lab manual for AlwaysOn Availability Groups, thirty-two technical presentations, seven new links, and one new white paper. The self-running and click-thru demonstrations were removed from the download to reduce the download size from 412 MB to 212 MB. The Welcome page includes a link to the hosted SQL Server Virtual labs so that you can try out SQL Server code name “Denali” CTP3.

https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27069

]]> Ready to dive deep into compiler internals? Roslyn CTP is released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/ready-to-dive-deep-into-compiler-internals-roslyn-ctp-is-released Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:11:52 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/10/29/ready-to-dive-deep-into-compiler-internals-roslyn-ctp-is-released/ If you want to get more insight on compiler internals, you can use Roslyn CTP walkthroughs.

 

Walkthroughs: Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP

Getting Started - Semantic Analysis (CSharp).docx

Getting Started - Semantic Analysis (VB).docx

Getting Started - Syntax Analysis (CSharp).docx

Getting Started - Syntax Analysis (VB).docx

Getting Started - Syntax Transformation (CSharp).docx

Getting Started - Syntax Transformation (VB).docx

How to Write a Quick Fix (CSharp).docx

How to Write a Quick Fix (VB).docx

Interactive - Executing Code in the Interactive Window.docx

Interactive - Implementing Host Commands in Script Code.docx

Interactive - Scripting Introduction.docx

Interactive - Seeding the Interactive Window from a WPF Project.docx

]]> Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 is released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/unity-3-0-preview-for-net-4-5-is-released Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:48:43 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/10/28/unity-3-0-preview-for-net-4-5-is-released/ Unity has become a popular DI container with a solid base of users (last time I checked, there were 300K+ cumulative downloads of the Unity container through all channels – MSDN, Codeplex, and NuGet). Unity runs in the heart of Microsoft Exchange and Bing and many other systems. For all of you Unity fans and enthusiasts building Metro style apps for Windows 8 Developer Preview, we have ported the Unity dependency injection container to .NET 4.5 framework.

The major changes include:

  • Unity projects updated to target .NET 4.5
  • Dynamic build plans modified to use compiled lambda expressions instead of Reflection.Emit
  • Converting reflection to use the new TypeInfo for reflection.
  • Projects updated to work with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 Preview.

Notes/Known Issues:

  • The Microsoft.Practices.Unity.UnityServiceLocator class cannot be used under the WinRT profile because the CommonServiceLocator cannot be used under the WinRT profile currently.
  • Only the core Unity libraries will work with the WinRT profile.  The Unity.Configuration, Unity.Interception, and Unity.Interception.Configuration assemblies will not work under the WinRT profile.
  • We removed the Silverlight versions for this preview.
  • Only unit tests from the Unity 2.1 suite have been verified. Full scale testing is to be done for the final release.
  • The preview release refers to the Unity 2.x documentation set.

 

For more information please check team blog

]]> I cannot pin folders to my Windows Explorer Icon on the Taskbar https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/i-cannot-pin-folders-to-my-windows-explorer-icon-on-the-taskbar Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:22:51 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/09/05/i-cannot-pin-folders-to-my-windows-explorer-icon-on-the-taskbar/  

I recently had this problem on my Windows 7 x64 machine. I was able to ping other applications and URLs but folders.

I found the solution on one of Windows forums, I thought that it might also help you so I am sharing here.

It was due to corrupted jump list files stored in a hidden folder on %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations.

You can see few files there, I didn’t know which one is corrupted so I moved them all to a subfolder that I named as “Corrupted” and tried to pin a folder and it worked.

I hope this helps you too.

]]> The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated. Event ID: 4965 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/the-office-sharepoint-server-standard-web-application-features-feature-must-be-activated-at-the-web-application-level-before-this-feature-can-be-activated-event-id-4965 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:54:09 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/04/14/the-office-sharepoint-server-standard-web-application-features-feature-must-be-activated-at-the-web-application-level-before-this-feature-can-be-activated-event-id-4965/  

I prepared a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Farm environment as below order

  1. Windows 2008 Cluster installation and configuration
  2. SQL Server 2008 Edition installation and configuration
  3. SQL Server 2008 SP1 Installation on Cluster
  4. SharePoint 2007 With Sp2 installation and configuration
  5. SharePoint 2007 WSS base language pack installation
  6. SharePoint 2007 base language pack installation
  7. SharePoint 2007 SP2 WSS language pack installation
  8. SharePoint 2007 SP2 language pack installation
  9. SharePoint 2007 Jun 2009 cumulative update installation (WSS and Office Server)
  10. ASP.NET out of band Security Update Installation.

 

When I tried to create a publishing site collection, you face below error.

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Obviously, I go and check features in web application and features are activated

 

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I also noticed event ID 4965 in application eventlog.

The site template was not provisioned successfully. Delete this site collection in Central Administration, and then create a new site collection.
System.InvalidOperationException: The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingResourcesFeatureHandler.<>c__DisplayClass3.<FeatureActivated>b__1()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevatedWrapper(Object state)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass4.<RunWithElevatedPrivileges>b__2()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(WaitCallback secureCode, Object param)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingResourcesFeatureHandler.<>c__DisplayClass3.<FeatureActivated>b__0()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CmsSecurityUtilities.RunWithWebCulture(SPWeb web, CodeToRun webCultureDependentCode)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingResourcesFeatureHandler.FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties receiverProperties)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.DoActivationCallout(Boolean fActivate, Boolean fForce)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.Activate(SPSite siteParent, SPWeb webParent, SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, Boolean fForce)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.AddInternal(Guid featureId, SPFeaturePropertyCollection properties, Boolean force, Boolean fMarkOnly)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureManager.EnsureFeaturesActivatedAtSiteInternal(SPSite site, String sFeatures, Boolean fMarkOnly)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureManager.<>c__DisplayClassa.<EnsureFeaturesActivatedAtSite>b__9()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevatedWrapper(Object state)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunAsUser(SPUserToken userToken, Boolean bResetContext, WaitCallback code, Object param)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunAsUser(SPUserToken userToken, CodeToRunElevated code)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureManager.EnsureFeaturesActivatedAtSite(Byte[]& userToken, Int32 nZone, Guid siteid, String sFeatures)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.ApplyWebTemplate(String strWebTemplate)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PortalProvisioningProvider.CreatePortal(String xmlFile, SPWeb rootWeb)

I suspected and check Central Administration Application Pool user account and checked its permission on Database but every thing was normal.

Publishing Site template was failing so I  did below steps

Copy  PublishingTimerJobs feature folder in the 12 hive folder from another environment to news environment

- executed following only once in farm
stsadm –o installfeature –name PublishingTimerJobs

- executed following against newly created web application
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename PublishingTimerJobs\feature.xml -url https://sites -force

It worked for me.

I hope it would work for you, if you face this issue.

Cheers,

]]> Clustered SQL Server 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1 installation Error code 0x84B20001 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/clustered-sql-server-2008-service-pack-sp-1-installation-error-code-0x84b20001 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:31:11 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/04/11/clustered-sql-server-2008-service-pack-sp-1-installation-error-code-0x84b20001/  

If you face below error when you started installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1.

A failure was detected for a previous installation, patch, or repair during configuration for features [SQL_DTS_Full,Connectivity_Full,SQL_SSMS_Full,SDK_Full,Tools_Legacy_Full,SQL_BIDS_Full,SQL_SSMS_Adv,SQL_PowerShell_Tools_ANS,SQL_WRITER,]. In order to apply this patch package, you must resolve any issues with the previous operation that failed. View the summary.txt log to determine why the previous operation failed.

You can solve it by following below steps

 

  1. Move any applications or services to other node(s)
  2. Start “SQL Server Installation Center”
  3. Select “Maintenance”
  4. Select “Repair” and point to installation binaries.
  5. Reboot after it is repaired.
  6. Start installation of SQL Server 2008 SP1

Hope it helps someone as it helped me.

Good day.

]]> Released: Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/released-developers-guide-to-microsoft-prism-4 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:52:01 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/03/26/released-developers-guide-to-microsoft-prism-4/  

Last fall patterns & practices shipped Prism 4. Patterns & Practices team announced the availability of the “Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4” book.

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What's In The Book?

Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling.

This guide will show you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in your applications, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable.

It will show you how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application.

It will show you how to dynamically construct a flexible user interface by using regions, and how to implement rich navigation across a modular application.

This book is available from O'Reilly or Amazon.

The eBook will be available for download shortly.

The MSDN online content is available here.

Reference Library and Code Samples

Accompanying the book are reference implementations and QuickStarts in C# and Visual Basic that can be downloaded from MSDN:

  • Prism 4 (includes Prism 4 source code, binaries, documentation in CHM format, Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs in C#)
  • Prism 4 Visual Basic Assets (includes Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs)

To learn more about Prism, see the following:

For related downloads, see the following:

you can also provide feedback on the Prism Community Site at https://www.codeplex.com/prism.

Enjoy,

]]> ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/netman/ado-net-entity-framework-4-1-release-candidate Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:43:09 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/netman/2011/03/15/ado-net-entity-framework-4-1-release-candidate/  

ADO.NET Entity Framework provides a strongly-typed LINQ data access experience over relational databases, including direct, efficient access to SQL Server.

ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 RC introduces two new features:

  • The DbContext API is a simplified abstraction over ObjectContext and a number of other types that were included in previous releases of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The DbContext API surface is optimized for common tasks and coding patterns.
  • Code First is a new development pattern for the ADO.NET Entity Framework and provides an alternative to the existing Database First and Model First patterns. Code First is focused around defining your model using C#/Visual Basic .NET classes, these classes can then be mapped to an existing database or be used to generate a database schema. Additional configuration can be supplied using Data Annotations or via a fluent API.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2dc5ddac-5a96-48b2-878d-b9f49d87569a

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