I was trying to install a web app that another team member built. this failed with the message: “The installer was interrupted before <MyApp> could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again.” Trying again is (obviously) meaningless, it will just fail over and over. And the error message is very general, something failed. In ......

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Last week my office integration from Team Explorer stopped working. the Team menu in excel was gone and when I tried to open a WI-query from VS I got this error message: TF80012: The document cannot be opened because there is a problem with the installation of the Microsoft Visual Studio v10.0 Team foundation Office integration components. Please see ......

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The option to create solutions from the file menu have not been available for several generations of Visual Studio now. But new for the 2010 version is that Visual Studio does not ask me where I want my new project and solution. It always put the in My Documents: C:\Users\db\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects If you want put your projects somewhere ......

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This is a post mostly to myself, so that when I forget this I can come here and check it out :) (I forget about ctrl-b from time to time) When copying diagrams from Enterprise Architect you can use ctrl-B to include the swim-lanes. A normal ctrl-c will not give you the swim-lanes. A side effect is that ctrl—b gives you a copy of the whole diagram, you ......

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When converting your projects to VS2010 you get the question to migrate them to .net4. But even if you do not do that VS set the ASP.NET version to 4 for setup projects. And then when you try to install your application on a machine that does not have .NET 4 installed you will get the error message: “Could not open key: Software\Microsoft\ASP.NET\... ......

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My EntSSO (Enterprise Single Sign-On Server, part of BizTalk) did not start today, with the message: The SSO service failed to start. Error Code: 0x80131700 Could not create SSOSQL. To fix the problem, reinstall SSO or try 'regasm SSOSQL.dll' from a Visual Studio command prompt. Error Code: 0x80131700 The only reason for this that I can think of is ......

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I haven’t been using Bluetooth on my D830 before but now I got myself a Bluetooth mouse in order to get rid of the receiver for a wireless mouse. And then I discovered that Bluetooth did not work anymore after I installed Win7. Browsing Dell support pages for a a driver found me one (browsing by computer model etc..). But that drivers does not work. ......

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Icons for that “little application” have always been a problem for me, finding something that looks ok. And now i discovered that I have been sitting right on top of a whole bunch of them all the time. They are on your machine already if you have Visual Studio installed! You find them here (if you have system drive=C: and 64-bit windows): C:\Program ......

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When the 2010 RC was released I installed it to replace the Beta2. An on top of that I installed the Team Explorer that was released at the same time. That is not the way to go! The Team Explorer is now already included in Visual Studio 2010 RC Ultimate and there is no need to install it separately as you had to do with earlier versions of Visual Studio. ......

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One thing that I like about windows 7 is the sticky notes app. I have seen several discussions about the default font, mainly that people don’t like it. I don’t like it either and it is not possible to change the font in the Sticky Notes but you can solve the problem with a workaround. Sticky Notes accepts the formatting of the text when you paste it ......

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