Upcoming webinars from @WSDevSol
Some upcoming webinars, first one today! Brought to you by members of the Windows Store Developer Solutions team in Microsoft Customer Service and Support. Debugging your Direct3D apps for Windows...
View ArticlePasswordVault.Add may fail on Windows 10
I am slightly embarrassed by the length of time since my last blog post. But never mind, here I am again! I’ve been working on a customer issue lately where an existing Windows Store app was failing...
View ArticleVersion history of the CLR 4.0
Following on from my “Version history of the CLR 2.0” post I’ve decided to start one for 4.0. The below generally only refer to patches affecting core CLR files clr.dll, not the rest of the...
View ArticleUnable to build a simple Cordova app in Visual Studio? Here’s a possible fix…
It is not so often these days that support cases have a quick solution. With the wealth of forums and other channels for peer assistance, most straightforward issues get fixed before people call us. So...
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace
Exciting announcements yesterday about the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace. Find out more about Red Hat solutions on Azure here. /D
View ArticleFile version history for CLR 4.x
In the past I have maintained some blogs posts about version histories of the CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0. People seem to have found those useful over the years but they have become quite tough to maintain....
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Troubleshooting exceptions in a Windows Phone app
You know the situation – you develop and debug your app, all works well and you deploy it onto the phones of a few testers or friends. Then, you get reports of the app just disappearing. An app...
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Open the Visual Studio Output windows with the keyboard
I am not great with keyboard shortcuts. I use quite a few but my repertoire is a bit limited. One thing that frustrated me for a while though was the apparent lack of a shortcut to bring up the Output...
View ArticleGenGetProcessInfo.Start(0x1234) failed, 0x800700ea
This is rather obscure but seems to come up every so often. Here 0x1234 would be the process ID of the process that we were attempting to dump. The Win32 error is 0x800700ea The issue here was that one...
View ArticleRSS and Atom feeds for support content
Thanks to a new service from our content team, you can now get an Atom or RSS feed for a wide variety of support content categories, e.g. .NET Framework, .NET Core, Visual Studio or many other...
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