A Microsoft customer from Uruguay was trying to purchase Office 2013 Spanish Language Pack, but wasn’t able to because on the Billing Address page the country was set to United States with no obvious
It took me a good hour to resolve this issue. I’m hoping that the search engines pick this up for you and save you some time. I’m thinking about switching from Blogger to Jekyll, which is built with R
I was getting this error when deploying to Netduino Plus 2 from VS2013. Unable to communicate with device USB:Netduino It turns out that that particular Netduino had an old firmware version. Use the
This Intel page tells you to download the FTDI drivers and run as Admin. I appears that you first need to install the “Windows Driver setup 1.0.0” from this page. 1. Install Windows Driver Setup 1.0.0
Solution to “Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item” c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink\tabtip.exe w
I recently switched from a ASUS ZenBook Touch to a Lenovo X1 Carbon. All was well until a few days ago when I let the battery completely drain while watching a movie. Since then the X1 Carbon was slug
Easy one, just run SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator.
Inheritance security rules violated by type: ‘System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory’. Derived types must either match the security accessibility of the base type or be less accessible. Search your who
[A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Cul
Error: [$sce:insecurl] Blocked loading resource from url not allowed by $sceDelegate policy. UPDATE: This error was also appearing in IE11 because of a bug in the user agent detection. That has been f
Go into your EDMX file, select the field that is causing the error and set StoreGeneratedPattern to Computed. Add the DatabaseGenerated attribute if you are using EF Code First: [DatabaseGenerated(Da
I just spent way to much time trying to figure out why I kept getting this error: Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Here’s the code snippet: var resource = $resource('http://local
Took me a bit to find the solution to this one, but I eventually found it here. 1. Upgrade to Resharper 7.1.2 2. In VS go to Resharper –> Options –> Unit Testing –> MS Test and Uncheck “Use L
Just a quick post to let you know that if you get the error below it means that you don’t have the TypeScript plugin installed: The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStu
I just spent several hours trying to figure out why I was getting JavaScript errors when using IE10. I owe Hanselman on this one. My error wasn’t exactly the same as what he described, but close. Thro
I know, I know, it’s 2013, but I occasionally have to work with VS2008. Unfortunately, when I was using it recently it would hang every other minute or so. I tolerated it a few times, but couldn’t tak
I got this error today when I tried to drag a video file that was created with my iPhone 5 to Sony Movie Studio (Vegas) The Sony QuickTime plug-in was not able to initialize the QuickTime components
I just got this error when doing Merge Replication on a SQL Server 2005 environment: A row insert at ... could not be propagated to ... This failure can be caused by a constraint violation. Cannot ins
There are a bunch of solutions out there on the web, but all I had to do to fix this was repair iTunes. Here’s how… Close iTunes Go to “Add / Remove Programs” Right-click on iTunes Select Repair
I use Windows+S ALL THE TIME. Wasn’t working this morning. I clicked around for 5 minutes trying all the different options. The only thing that re-enabled it was opening OneNote and manually selecting