Troubleshooting on Marko Apfel

Kill processes in bulk mode

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

A quick Windows command-line technique for stopping multiple processes at once.

Open PowerShell with elevated permissions and run get-process > C:\_temp\process.txt
Open process.txt in an editor with multi cursor capabilities, e.g. Visual Studio Code or _Notepad++`

Visual Studio – Getting compilation error “The type 'XAML' is not defined.”

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:34:00 +0200

During compilation of the F# Empty Windows App (WPF) I got that error (check the output pane carefully).

To solve this issue you have to thrust of the XAML Type Provider of this project. This you can do via the Visual Studio options:

Error “Couldn’t install programs” during installing Windows Live Writer

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:57:00 +0200

By downloading the latest version of WLW you normally get the online installer. It is a small program wlsetup-web.exe which downloads during setup the necessary components.

Unfortunately this setup raised on different machines the error “Couldn’t install programs”.

Synology DS215j update results in read only access

Sun, 17 May 2015 20:40:00 +0200

Saturday morning I received a mail from my parents NAS (Synology DS215j) about a reboot after a system update. A few hours later my father called me, mentioning that he cannot write to the NAS anymore. All files are accessible in read only mode. All write operations under windows raises an error.

ClearOS: Installation hangs during system update with “Exception: Didn't install any keys”

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:23:00 +0100

During my first installation of ClearOS the (web) installer hangs during the system update step. It downloaded a lot but it didn’t applied the updates because of the error Exception: Didn't install any keys.

Outlook hangs during startup by step “loading profile”

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:29:00 +0200

Problem

Starting Outlook shows only the splash screen with comment “loading profile”. I could cancel the startup but restarting shows the same. I verified with Task Manager that no hidden outlook process is bother me.

Lenovo ThinkPad W530 problem to activate the optical/DVD drive

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:27:00 +0200

Problem

Sometimes my notebook shows the optical drive as power off:

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But the hint there

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is not changing this state.

Solution

By looking in the device manager you see the next problem:

Strange error “argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’”

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:08:00 +0200

During playing with EF and LINQ I run in this UI-error:

argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’

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The Compiler themselves states:

Cannot convert lambda expression to type ‘string’ because it is not a delegate type.

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘…’. The endpoint was not reachable.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:00 +0100

During playing with Entity Framework I got the error:

“Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘’…’. The endpoint was not reachable.

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By running the project in Visual Studio. Outside VS were no problems.

Specifying new screen resolutions for ubuntu in a virtual box

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:34:00 +0100

Per default Ubuntu offers screen resolutions which does not fit for my laptop. My panel allows 1980x1080 but the best fitting choice from ubuntu was 1280x960.

But with some nice commands you could pimp the list of available resolutions:

Restoring removed thumbnails in Google Chrome “New Tab” overview site

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:26:00 +0100

Normally the thumbnails at the new tab page are organized by how often you visited a page.

But after removing such a thumbnail by clicking the little gray cross at the right top corner deactivates the logic for this page on the whole. The page is added to an internal black list.

NuGet: Update to an older version of a package

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:52:00 +0100

Problem

I must go back to an older package version (from 1.1.0.0 to 1.0.0.0) but the Package Manager Console does not allow this.

With the command

Update-Package EsriDE.Commons.System.Utils -Version 1.0.0.0

I got the error:

"Failure has occurred while loading a type."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0200

Motivation

During programming suddenly this error (Failure has occurred while loading a type) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library.

In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger fuslogvw to search for problems of loading assemblies. Sometimes an old version from a not expected folder is binded. But all bindings were correct.

Correcting wrong AssemblyInfo Copyright and Vendor-information

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:53:00 +0200

Initial situation

Normally all of our installations are registered to the company name.

But now we have the effect that some (developer) tool seems to overwrite this registry entries. That results in the following:

Break the mechanism, that GAC-assemblies could only bind to other GAC-assemblies

Tue, 31 May 2011 08:30:00 +0200

Till yet I thought, that if you have an assembly in the GAC all referenced assemblies must also be in the GAC. So a break of this GAC-assembly resolving chain is impossible.

Lenovo ThinkPad W510 crashes and hangs up often

Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:00 +0200

Now I have my 3rd Lenovo ThinkPad W510 – and with all of them I had problems in stability.

First one (freezing and not able to wake up)

The first one from July 2010 sometimes freezes for some seconds till minutes. Mostly it comes back after that time and I could continue my work.

Get Keymaps for ReSharper running

Thu, 12 May 2011 06:27:00 +0200

Keymaps for ReSharper is a nice tool and allows the user easily to learn short cuts of ReSharper.

Unfortunately, the last update is from january 2010. So the installation folder of the installing script (Install.Keymaps.for.ReSharper.cmd) is not up to date. If you run it no expected new menu item “Show Keymap” under the ReSharper-menu is listed.

Clear list of recent repositories in Git Extensions

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:12:00 +0100

Orphaned and wrong specified repositories in the recent list are annoying. Straightaway I does not found an option to clean this entries. And also not the persistence place for that.

So it was time for Process Explorer.

Fix folder scrolling problem in navigation pane of Explorer

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Since my first steps with Win7 I hate the behavior of Explorer to scroll down the current expanded folder in the navigation pane. Today I found a solution in this thread:

Bug: Windows Explorer expands folders inappropriately, jumping the folder you expand to the bottom of the navigation pane

Current working path of batches evaluates to distinct folders for different users

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:56:00 +0100

Lets have a batch with the following content:

 1: ECHO %CD%
 2:
 3: PAUSE

Then this batch runs by double-clicking in the folder with the batch:

Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:10:00 +0100

Today Patrick from NDepend gave me a new license for his static code analysis tool NDepend for my fresh machine with Win7/64. This platform is new for me, so some things are different to Win XP. Maybe that till yet some of these things are not well enough understood from me. So I stepped in some traps.

Hudson error: could not delete ..config.xml

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:44:00 +0200

Today we updated our Hudson CI-server. After changing job-configuration Hudson throws an error, that the config.xml could not be deleted.

But the new entries are correct saved.

Nevertheless such behavior bothers.

The trick was to update also the plugins. After that all works fine again.

Searching the new FxCop-Release (10.0)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:45:00 +0200

Today my FxCop-GUI stated, that a new release is available – but the link to this release is broken.

After googling a little bit i realized, that the new release of FxCop ist actually only included in “Windows SDK for Windows 7.1”.

Caching of toolbar names in ArcMap

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:06:00 +0200

For little GUI-changes in own ArcMap-customizations normally it is enough to start the application and look that every entry is visible. Especially for refactoring of an own toolbar it was still enough to verify that the toolbar is already shown in the choice-list.

Remote Debugging mit Visual Studio

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:38:00 +0200

Das Debuggen einer Applikation auf einem Rechner ohne installiertes Visual Studio gestaltet sich mit dem Remote Debugging Monitor relativ einfach.

Derartige Konstellationen ergeben sich insbesondere dann, wenn ein Debugging von Anwendungen in Produktiv-Umgebungen notwendig wird.

Integrating F# in SharpDevelop

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:10:00 +0100

After installing SharpDevelop 4 the F# Interactive could not be activated.

In my case the correct folder for the F# installation must by specified in die application config file. So i opened SharpDevelop.exe.config and set this entry in the appSettings section:

MSB3105: Duplicate ressource parameter

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:17:00 +0100

error MSB3105: The item "BALoginForm.resources" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter.
Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter.

Reason

We use two custom cultures to divide between UIs for two customers. At the machine with this error only one custom culture was installed.

Formatting removable media throws “You do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation.”

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:49:00 +0100

I tried to format my camera SD-card and my windows comes up with the error:

A little bit google helped:

MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0100

For a general applicability I tried to specify the WorkingDirectory attribute in a quoted manner:

<WorkingDir>&quot;$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\&quot;</WorkingDir>

<DoubleQuotes>%22</DoubleQuotes>
<WorkingDir>$(DoubleQuotes)$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\$(DoubleQuotes)</WorkingDir>

The Exec task self is

<Exec
 WorkingDirectory="$(WorkingDir)"
 Command="$(ExtractComCategories) $(InputDirectoryArg) $(FilterArg) $(SeparationArg) $(OutputDirectoryArg) $(OutputFileArg) $(OutputFormatArg)" />

Every variant throws during building the exception MSB6003 (The directory name is invalid):

Visual Studio 2005/2008 Code Analysis Error

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +0100

After installing VS2005 TE on my machine (which previously runs Visual Studio 2008 TE) all mixed projects (VS2005/VS2008 compatibility with TargetFramework=2.0 and ToolsVersion=2.0 options) thrown an error during compilation:

C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\CodeAnalysis\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.targets(46,4):
error : In order to perform Code Analysis on managed binaries, MSBuild needs to launch FxCop.
MSBuild is unable to locate the FxCop binaries.
Make sure Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers or Visual Studio Team Suite is installed
and run MSBuild from within the "Visual Studio Command Prompt"
or specify the path to FxCop by setting the FXCOPDIR environment variable.

Specifying the FXCOPDIR-variable brings up the next obscure errors.

Parsing argument line with a folder-parameter ending with backslash

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:21:00 +0100

By using the argument line array of Main(string[] args) it is important to know such effect.

If you specify a quoted folder (e.g. "C:\Projects\PDE\PRJ_EsriDE_Common\trunk\code\Commons\bin\Debug\") the ending backslash makes troubles.

My whole argument line (linebreaked for better viewing):

Visual Studio: Find in files with *.xml wildcard does not find all occurrences

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:51:00 +0100

During a refactoring we searched for full type names in our IoC-config files. The filter was setted to *.xml and Visual Studio does not found all occurrences of the search string in these xml-files.

ReSharper is not available

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:23:00 +0100

Today a colleague ask me to help.

On his system all ReSharper menus are grayed out. Also the Visual Studio Add-In Manager does not show this add-in.

He tried:

a new installation: without success,
running with administrative privileges: without success,
looking in event- and application-logs: no entries.

After searching a little bit with old buddy google we found this message: Wild World of Visual Studio – Mysterious Component

SAP.Net.Setup_2.0.msi throws “You must first install the Visual Studio.NET 7.1”

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:29:00 +0100

During installation of the SAP .NET Connector the setup throws this error because no Visual Studio 2003 could be found.

If you only need the assembly sap.connector.dll (for instance in cases of old projects which references this dll) you could ask google for downloading it ;-)

Visual Studio Error: The item "*.resources" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:58:00 +0100

Full error message in Visual Studio output window:

The item `*.resources` was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter.

I saw this error on context of custom cultures usage. The compiling machine does not have a project used custom culture registered.

Visual Studio lists Error: “CA0503 : Additional code analysis warnings or errors cannot be displayed”

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:00 +0100

This error during compilation annoyed me in a legacy project.

Apparently because of performance issues the Visual Studio development team decided to limit the warnings of code analysis to 200 items.

This behavior could be parameterized under:

WinXP search problem

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:07:00 +0200

When you search for files that contain text by using the A word or phrase in the file search criterion, the search results may not contain files that contain the text that you specified. For example, .log, .dll, .js, .asp, .xml, .xsl, .hta, .css, .wsh, .cpp, .c, or .h files, or files with no file name extension, may not appear in the search results even if the files contain the text that you specified. This problem may occur even if you specified the file name or type in the All or part of the file name box.

Building a Help-TOC by hand

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:24:00 +0200

If you build a TOC for a CHM-help by hand it is important the for an entry the <object>-tag directly follows the <li>-tag.

So this format works:

<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">

and this format lets show nothing:

NUnit project file cant reference assemblies which are not in subfolders

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:35:00 +0200

We use a developer tree like

src (contains the master-SLN and other code-stuff)
build (contains tools to build assemblies, code-doku, ..)
bin (central common output-folder for c#-compiler)

Under src normally the <project>.nunit should lay. But this file then references the assembly in a schema like: <assembly path="..\bin\Debug\EsriDE.PipelineManagement.Core.ClassExtensions.Test.dll" >

Post-build event with folders which contains spaces

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:47:00 +0200

If you want to use a Post-build event with folders which contains a space often you get an error like:

The system cannot find the file specified.

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(3397,13):
error MSB3073: The command
"COPY C:\Projekte\_Learning By Doing\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop\bin\Debug\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop.dll
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft StyleCop 4.3""
exited with code 1.

In my case I used the macro $(TargetPath) in following line which contains indirectly the spaces in _Learning By Doing:

Sandcastle Help File Builder: Content Editor opens without functionality

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:52:00 +0200

If the content editor of SHFB opens without any functionality then the configuration file is corrupt.

This is repairable through deleting the config-files under C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR\_USER\_ID]\Local Settings\Application Data\Eric\_Woodruff\...

Sometimes an error occurred during opening content editor next time. In this case you must study the message. Often you have created a not XML-wellformed content file. Open your last used files with an other XML-editor and look for the place which is described in the message. After fixing the prob you must close SHFB, delete the config-file again and reopen your SHFB-project.

HTML Help Compiler Error HHC3004

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:28:00 +0100

Today i had an error by building my sandcastle documentation project.

After compiling during opening the output instead my chm-file in the help viewer the internet explorer pops up with an error message that the destination could not be found. So i took a look in the log of the compile process and there was some warnings of the following type listed:

ClickOnce installation folder

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:17:00 +0100

During testing ClickOnce-Deployment i wondered that in my start-menu an “application reference” is created which has no link-reference to the application which is installed at the client.

Only references to the server which offers the application are listed. It seems there is some magic in the ClickOnce-client-engine of .NET-FW 2.0

Compiler-Error: error MSB3217

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:54:00 +0100

Since several days during compilation i had the error:

Cannot register assembly "Foo.dll".
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

In the output-window with diagnostic compile information the following statement was listed:

GACing und Kopieren nach dem Kompilieren

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0100

Beim Entwickeln eigener Functoide (Custom Functoids) und deren Verwendung im BizTalk Mapper muss das Kompilat sowohl in den GAC als auch ins Verzeichnis c:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Developer Tools\Mapper Extensions kopiert werden.

Tracing des BizTalk Adapter for mySAP Business Suite

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:30:00 +0200

Im Zusammenhang mit verlorenengegangenen Werten innerhalb des mySAP-Adapters war es interessant das Verhalten genauer zu protokollieren.

Dafür gibt es Trace-Variablen.

Umgebungsvariablen setzen

Man lege folgende 3 System-Umgebungsvariablen an

CPIC_TRACE=1
RFC_TRACE=1
RFC_TRACE_DIR=C:\Tracedir

Nach einem Reboot werden vom mySAP-Adapter Low-Level-Informationen in verschiedene Files im oben angegebenen Verzeichnis geschrieben.

BizTalk Server 2006 Error: SAP .Net connector is not installed

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:45:00 +0200

Nach dem Unzug eines Projektes von einem Rechner auf einen anderen, gab es die Warnung und Fehlermeldung:

The adapter failed to transmit message going to send port "spZ_ESRI_DEBITOR_CREATE.SAP" with URL "sap://AS:xxx/00/800/".
It will be retransmitted after the retry interval specified for this Send Port.
Details:"SAP .Net connector is not installed".

A message sent to adapter "SAP" on send port "spZ_ESRI_DEBITOR_CREATE.SAP" with URI "sap://AS:xxx/00/800/" is suspended.
Error details: SAP .Net connector is not installed

Diese Fehlermeldung ist etwas irreführend. Vermisst wird eine Wrapping-DLL, die der BizTalk-SAP-Adapter beim Import des SAP-Schemas für den Zugriff auf die RFC erzeugt. Diese DLL befindet sich im BIN-Unterordner vom Adapter-Verzeichnis.

Error: EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_sdidebug'

Fri, 05 May 2006 09:00:00 +0200

Beim Debugging wird der Fehler:

"EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_sdidebug', database 'master', owner 'dbo'."

geworfen.

Komplette Fehlermeldung:

[System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException] = 
{"EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_sdidebug', database 'master', owner 'dbo'."}

Ein Deaktivieren der Checkbox “Enable SQL Server debugging” brachte keine Besserung.

Developing own Custom Functoid for BizTalk

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:15:00 +0200

Eigene Functoide für den BizTalk zu entwickeln ist ziemlich easy. Die Dokumentation mit den Beispielen ist OK und ausreichend.

Trotzdem gibt es ein paar Dinge die man im Eifer des Gefechtes schnell mal übersieht.

BizTalk und NameSpaces

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:45:00 +0100

Unterschiedliche Namespaces zwischen Schemas und Instanzen führen immer wieder zu kryptischen Fehlermeldungen.

Die Erfahrung zeigt, dass es einige besonders tückische Stellen gibt, die man sofort verifizieren sollte.

Typische Fehlermeldungen

Namespace-Referenzierung in der Instanz passt nicht zur deklarierten im Schema

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
Source: "XML disassembler"
Receive Port: "RpIn"
URI: "C:File_InMiniTest*.xml"
Reason: Finding document specification by message type "de.MeineFirma.EAI.Schema.FalscherTyp#MyEntity" failed.
Verify that the schema is deployed properly.

Komplette Namespace-Referenzierung in der Instanz vergessen

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
Source: "XML disassembler"
Receive Port: "RpIn" URI: "C:File_InMiniTest*.xml"
Reason: Finding document specification by message type "MyEntity" failed. Verify that the schema is deployed properly.

Receive-Pipeline falsch konfiguriert, z.B. auf PassThruReceive anstatt auf XMLReceive

The Messaging engine failed to process a message submitted by adapter:FILE Source
URL:C:File_InMiniTest*.xml.
Details:The published message could not be routed because no subscribers were found.
This error occurs if the subscribed orchestration schedule or send port has not been started, 
or if some of the message properties necessary for subscription evaluation have not been promoted.

Folgende Einstellungen sollten immer passen

Schema an sich (Auswahl der XSD-Datei)

Namespace: de.MeineFirma.EAI.Schema
Type Name: MeinTyp

macht zusammen für den Full Qualified Name ein de.MeineFirma.EAI.Schema.MeinTyp

BizTalk Server 2006 Error: Loading document specification XYZ from assembly XYZ failed.

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:00:00 +0100

Obwohl die Assemblies mit den Schemas im GAC und deployed sind, kommt es beim Aufpicken einer Schemainstanz zu 2 Fehlereinträgen im Eventlog und die Message wird supended.

Fehler

Event Id: 5753
A message received by adapter "FILE" on receive location "XML" with URI "C:File_InORDERS01*.xml" is suspended. 
Error details:
There was a failure executing the receive pipeline:
"Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
Source: "XML disassembler"
Receive Port: "RpORDERS01"
URI: "C:File_InORDERS01*.xml"
Reason: Loading document specification from assembly failed. Verify that the schema for this document specification is deployed and placed in the Global Assembly Cache.

und

IIS-Error: Service unavailable

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:00:00 +0100

Schon eim Aufrufen der Default-Webseite unter http://localhost kommt die Fehlermeldung “Service unavailable” und im Eventlog tauchen Warnings und Errors auf.

Warnings

A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated unexpectedly.
The process id was '5920'.
The process exit code was '0xffffffff'.

Errors

Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series
of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool.

bzw:

Error: The database server you specified cannot be reached ..

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:15:00 +0100

Beim Installieren des Enterprise Single Sign-On Dienstes kommt folgende Fehlermeldung:

The database server you specified cannot be reached.
Make sure you have specified the correct server name and that the server is currently running.
Login failed for user ***

Die Domain-Gruppe der “SSO Administratoren” muss in die Gruppe der lokalen Adminstratoren auf der SQL Server Maschine. Der Installations-User bekommt durch die Mitgliedschaft in “SSO Administratoren” dann Admin-Rechte im SQL-Server.

SQL Server 2005 Zugriffsproblem bei Remotezugriff

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:15:00 +0100

Wenn ein Remote-Zugriff auf einen SQL Server 2005 mit der Fehlermeldung

"A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake.
When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections."

scheitert, dann hilft folgendes