Parser Error - Could not create type 'XXX'

i was creating a small test web service.
when i wanted to test it, but adding reference to another project, i got this error in the wizard 'Parser Error - Could not create type 'XXX''
and it suggested that i check the proxy settings blah-blah-blah
a quick search on google got me this, but i quickly found out the actual reason when i went to the iis settings - my test service was in .net 2.0, while the settings for the virtual directory were for .net 1.1
after i changed this all went smoothly....

just 2c...

mysql connector/net and cyrillics

im writing this application that stores client data in mysql 4.0.18 and i see that any data in cyrillics or unicode is stored as ??????.
wtf??
i search and search the web for solution and found .... nothing !?!?
i remembered i had a similar problem once with software for another client, and at that time a had given up and used MySQL ODBC instead.
this time i decided to continue the search and found this post (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10870) and a little bit somewhere here.
so the solution is to add charset=utf8 to your connection string.
why is it so hard to find the solution to a problem that should be common ? or, hmm, ok - maybe i really should've read the mysql manual properly...

building pwlib

i have to add 729 codec support to my application. for that i downloaded voxgratia's patched version of openh323 and pwlib and started the fight for building them.
what i kept getting was some unresolved externals, so after a long, long struggle i noticed that the compiler-encoded method string which ptlib looks for for linking in ptlibd.def differs from the string in the ptlibsd.lib which is being linked.
so i decided to replace the strings in ptlibd.def with the correct ones in ptlibsd.lib. everything compiles fine so far, i wonder if it will also work fine ....