Wednesday, December 22, 2004

vs.net 2003: Could not copy temporary files to the output directory.

ok, after fighting this problem for weeks, i gave up trying to have all my project output to the same folder. wrote a copy file post build event and calmed down. the strange thing is this (single output folder for all projects) setup worked very well for months and "suddenly" it started failing - first once at a time, then to an extent where i could not normally work... i read and read posts, blogs, newsgroups, articles, tips and shits with no productive result.
oh, well - after all it is a do-once operation; hope i wont have to fix it again.

mscorwks.dll could not be loaded

i have sent a new application to one of my customers. suddenly they complain that they recieve a strange message that i have never encountered:
"mscorwks.dll could not be loaded". what the hell ? they have followed my instructions and have installed .Net Framework 1.1 and some additional libraries, so what might be the problem ?? good thing there's google and the .Net 247 community; and this article - http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/41/207197.aspx.
so i have mixed a debug and release version ? hmm but why didnt i get that message locally then ? the Mystery of the Sith.....

Edit: so, after i read this thread i began to get suspicious and checked with my clients exactly what version of the .Net Framework they had and.... voila! they had 1.0.xxxx when 1.1 was needed! man, this remote work is getting so confusing sometimes....

Friday, December 17, 2004

set the course

so i finally made my mind on how to proceed with converting the application from c# to java. a helpfull resource was Infragistics' experience. so for now my goal is to have all the c# classes into their java counterparts, with limited functionality in lots of places in order to only have the things moving... you know - the hardest thing is to get the wheel spinning (or was it the ball rolling? :) , everything comes to its place afterwards

Friday, December 10, 2004

save sent mail

as a long time user of yahoo mail i was used to "copy message to sent folder" or whatever option. recently i noticed that yahoo mail team have removed this option from the compose email window. a quick search in google sent me to a yahoo mail support page, where i learned that there is new option that would only allow me to save all my sent messages. i used to only save some important messages and now they want me to save all or no sent emails.
isn't this a kind of stupid ?

Thursday, December 09, 2004

windows disappeared

another white hair on my head - im converting a .Net program to Java and needed some java resources. So I downloaded BIE, which i thought might be usefull, and very quickly decided that it is not. however when i tried to uninstall it - Booom ! i noticed that my Windows dir was gone, and something was eating the Program Files folder... crazy...beware of badly written software, kids.. and make backups!... often!

uno posto numero uno

wow, isn't it a little scary... my first post to this blog. i am gonna use it as an online diary and notes holder for my programming tasks. maybe someone else beside me will find it usefull - wish me luck !