Bugs & Trobuleshooting

MSDN Error

Ram Shankar Yadav — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:57:00 GMT

Hey guys I'm back with another bug in MSDN which I encountered last night, when I tried to browse http://msdn2.microsoft.com it showed me this.....

Now I wonder if guys at microsoft handle error like this ....... what will you expect from rest of the community........... !

Microsoft guys wake up.....!

Happy Bugging

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 empty dialog box bug

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:58:00 GMT

I've no ideas what it is, but I'm sure that it's a bug ;)

Anybody have any clues on this .... @#$##$@#$@#

Happy Bugging

WMPlugins.com bug!!

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:17:00 GMT

I noticed this bug while I was browsing WMPlugins.com, at first glance it cannot be noticed but if you spent some time you will find that this is illogical to have Most Popular Plug-ins listed under Top Skins section, and this widget/usercontrol is used through out this site.

Links:

WMPlugins.com

Anybody from Microsoft listening .....!!

Enjoy Bugs

Server Error in MSDN documentation

Ram Shankar Yadav — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:26:00 GMT

I got this error in MSDN while I was browsing for new .NET Pet Shop 4.0.

Enjoy Bugs

MSDN Browser Bug

Ram Shankar Yadav — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:18:00 GMT

From past few day I'm facing this problem with MSDN. I'm sure you guys would be facing the same problem.

MSDN IE Bug

MSDN Mozilla Firefox Bug

Hey guys from Redmond, are you lisening!

Happy Browsing :)

Windows Live Writer Error while choosing Windows Live Spaces

Ram Shankar Yadav — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:13:00 GMT

I got this wierd problem while configuring Windows Live Writer(Beta) with Windows Live Spaces.

Error File:

Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:55:12 PM
Version: 1.0
Build: 109
OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4
Runtime version: 2.0.50727.42
Shutdown started: False
Program: "C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\WindowsLiveWriter.exe" 
Memory Load: 72%
Total Physical: 1015 MB
Available Physical: 277 MB
Total Page File: 1267 MB
Available Page File: 376 MB
Total Virtual: 2097 MB
Available Virtual: 1882 MB
Available Extented Virtual: 0 MB
Unexpected Error Occurred
An unexpected error has occurred within the application. 

System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'msidcrl40.dll': The specified procedure could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007F)
   at Microsoft.Passport.Test.Ppcrl.NativeMethods.InitializeEx(Guid& AppGuid, Int32 PpcrlVersion, UInt32 Flags, IDCRL_OPTION[] pOptions, UInt32 dwOptions)
   at Microsoft.Passport.Test.Ppcrl.ManagedIDCRL.InitializeEx(Guid& appGuid, Int32 ppcrlVersion, UInt32 updateFlags, Initialize_Options[] initOptions, UInt32 count)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.Passport.PassportAuth.Initialize(String env, ConditionVariable conditionVariable)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.Passport.PassportAuth.Initialize()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.PostEditor.Configuration.Wizard.WeblogConfigurationWizardPanelSpacesBasicInfo..ctor()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.PostEditor.Configuration.Wizard.WeblogConfigurationWizardController.AddSpacesBasicInfoSubStep()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.PostEditor.Configuration.Wizard.WeblogConfigurationWizardController.OnChooseBlogTypeCompleted(Object stepControl)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.Controls.Wizard.WizardStep.Next()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.Controls.Wizard.WizardController.next()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.Controls.Wizard.WizardForm.buttonNext_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Anybody for Windows Live Writer Team listening!

Happy Blogging :)

Generic Function for GridView Sort Images

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:18:00 GMT

It was a requirment in one of my projects, that we have to show sort images alongwith header text, so I googled the problem and find a solution, but solution was not generic, so I did some tweaks with it and the outcome is a generic function to show sort images in your GridView header alongwith column text.

So here goes the functions...................~

void GridViewSortImages(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)

    {
GridView senderGridView = (GridView) sender;
        Literal space = new Literal();
        space.Text = "    ";

if (e.Row != null && e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header)

{

foreach (TableCell cell in e.Row.Cells)

{

if (cell.HasControls())

{

LinkButton button = cell.Controls[0] as LinkButton;

if (button != null)

{

Image image = new Image();

image.ImageUrl = "default.gif";

if (senderGridView.SortExpression == button.CommandArgument)

{

if (senderGridView.SortDirection == SortDirection.Ascending)

image.ImageUrl = "asc.gif";

else

image.ImageUrl = "desc.gif";

}

cell.Controls.Add(image);

}

VB.NET

Sub GridViewSortImages(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
            Dim senderGridView As GridView = CType(sender, GridView)
            Dim space As New Literal
            space.Text = "    "

            If Not (e.Row Is Nothing) AndAlso e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.Header Then
                For Each cell As TableCell In e.Row.Cells
                    If cell.HasControls Then
                        Dim button As LinkButton = CType((cell.Controls(0)), LinkButton)
                        If Not (button Is Nothing) Then
                            Dim image As New System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image
                            image.ImageUrl = "\images\clear.gif"
                            If senderGridView.SortExpression = button.CommandArgument Then
                                If senderGridView.SortDirection = SortDirection.Ascending Then
                                    image.ImageUrl = "\images\glyphs\arrow_down.gif"
                                Else
                                    image.ImageUrl = "\images\glyphs\arrow_up.gif"
                                End If
                            End If
                            cell.Controls.Add(image)
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
            End If
        End Sub

You can use this code by simply binding GridView's RowCreated event.

Links:

Use an Up and Down arrow in the GridView's header columns - by Fredrik Normen

Happy Coding :)

Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional unknown alien character

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:45:00 GMT

It was merely a conincidence when some how an alien symbol in my Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional. This alien character looks similar to a backslash(\) but is bigger than a back slash! My CTO (Utkarsh) also discovered this symbol in his Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team Suite.

I tried to open and close new files in the editor but the symbol was still there!

So, enjoy the joyride of this alien symbol.............., and here it goes!

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #1

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #2

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #3

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #4

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #5

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #6

Guys @ Redmond wake up, there's an alien invasion ;)

Copying Windows Popup Error Messages

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:22:00 GMT

It was just a coincedence when I discovered it while I was chatting with my friend and some error occured in one of the application and I pressed Ctrl + C to copy some stuff and send it to my freind but as error dialog gets the focus, and when I unconciously pasted that stuff in the chat window I found that ugly error message ~!

So the moral/finding of the story is : Ctrl + C works with those ugly windows error messages !@!

I tried to find this out by Goooooogling and I found few good links as well, but one limitation of this is that it works on Windows 2000/XP/2003 and onwards.........................~!

Links:

How can I quickly copy error messages and other type of messages in Windows 2000/XP/2003?

Tip - Ctrl C to Copy those Pesky Error Message Pop-ups!

Quite handy, isn't it ~!

Happy Computing :)

Google Url Bug

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:12:00 GMT

Hey guys I don't know but I'm again feeling lucky after discovering another bug in google!
Although I'm not much active in blogging these days coz transission to a new company, and a new project I'm quite busy these days, but that doesn't mean that I've left reading blogs, nope I still manage to take out time for reading blogs. Ok enough of talks now back to the bug.

This bug I don't know wheather it is valid or not but as it behaves differently in different scenearios I suppose it is a bug!.I discovered this bug when I key in

http://www.google.co.in//

instead of

http://www.google.co.in/

Yes, you got it right I have mistakenly keyed an extra slash(”/”), which produced following, which I was amazed to look at, hey where are the images gone?

Expected Result:

Acctual Result:

I tried to repeat this bug on other google domains, and found out that most of them are reproducing the same bug!. I tested this bug using Internet Explorer V6.0.2800.1106 and Mozilla Firefox V1.5.0.3, and the results are same. I don't think that this bug is browser specific.

Sites which are reproducing this bug:

Sites which are not reproducing this bug:

http://www.google.co.uk//
http://www.google.no//
http://www.google.it//
http://www.google.de//
http://www.google.fr//
http://www.google.ca//
http://www.google.com.au//
http://www.google.com.bo//
http://www.google.com.br//
http://www.google.cc//

Although this list is still incomplete as good amout of time is required to test more than that bug I'll appreciate if you add new url's which you can find are working or not.

I really worked hard to test the above list of sites but I'm still feeling lucky to find this bug!

Guys at google are you listening!

Happy surfing ;)