Monthly Archives: March 2012

How to access Skydrive shared by another person

Posted on March 31, 2012 by chanmingman

1. Sign in to your own live account. 2. Add the live mail of the person you want to access to your contact. 3. Go to Windows Live and search the contact. 4. Click the Document folder of that person. … Continue reading →

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Create Hello World in Metro Style Application

Posted on March 29, 2012 by chanmingman

1. File -> New Project. 2. Choose Blank Application. 3. Click on the BlankPage.xaml. 4. Drop a Textbox. 5. Drop a Button. 6. Double click on the button and put Hello World in it. Watch the video below. Create Hello … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio PerfWatsonhas identified responsiveness problem with Visual Studio

Posted on March 29, 2012 by chanmingman

If you see the below message:   ——————————————————-   Visual Studio PerfWatsonhas identified responsiveness problem with Visual Studio. Do you want to report these errors to Microsoft? ——————————————————-   The solution at the moment is uninstall the extension by choose … Continue reading →

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How to get Visual Studio 11 (VS 11) sample

Posted on March 27, 2012 by chanmingman

Go to pull down menu choose Help -> Sample. See the video below. How to get Visual Studio 11 (VS 11) sample

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Loading designer never ended for WPF or Metro Style app in VS 11

Posted on March 24, 2012 by chanmingman

One of the possible reasons is if you install VS 11 in Virtual Box 4.1.10. Revert back to 4.1.8 and rebuild then it will work.

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Cannot be opened because it is version 706. This server supports version 661 and earlier

Posted on March 22, 2012 by chanmingman

The you attach a database to SQL Server 2008 R2. The first error you hit is. —————————— An error occurred when attaching a database(s). —————————— When you click the hyper link you see the error as below. —————————— The database … Continue reading →

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Do not install Guest Additions for Virtual Box 4.1.10 if your guest OS is Windows 8

Posted on March 21, 2012 by chanmingman

Do not install Guest Additions for Virtual Box 4.1.10 if your guest OS is Windows 8. It will crash your Windows 8 consumer preview. 4.1.8 the Guest Additions cannot be installed but will not crash your OS.

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Retrieve a specific property from Active Directory

Posted on March 20, 2012 by chanmingman

You want to retrieve the MemberOf property for an Active Directory user. //pass in AD server name, account , password that can access to this server DirectoryEntry entry = newDirectoryEntry(“LDAP://dc1.localserver.localdomain”, “Administrator”, “password”);   DirectorySearcher mySearcher = newDirectorySearcher(entry); //someone is the … Continue reading →

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Northwind in Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Posted on March 18, 2012 by chanmingman

Finally SQL server 2012 is working and able to attach Northwind database to it. I am able to enable SQL authentication. What are the out coming bugs I will find??? Stay tuned. You can download the Northwind.mdf from my skydrive … Continue reading →

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Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\1033_ENU_LP\redist\VisualStudioShell\VSIntSetup\cab12.cab has an invalid digital signature

Posted on March 17, 2012 by chanmingman

You might hit the error below when you are installing SQL Server 2012. ——————————————————————- Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\1033_ENU_LP\redist\VisualStudioShell\VSIntSetup\cab12.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file … Continue reading →

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