Web applications debugging in Visual Studio on Vista

August 1st, 2008

To be able dubugging of web sites in Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista just run Visual Studio IDE as administrator as MS suggests :)

Windows XP installation after Vista problems

February 21st, 2008

I think most of us have been already played with Vista operation system.

Someone likes it, someone have a negative experience with it. This article will be for second ones.

Yes. Vista looks nice, but has a lot of compatibility issues. Such issues
related to hardware drivers problems or applications running problems. I had no possibility to allow working my ATI Radeon 1950XT graphics card with ATI drivers (it could work with MS drivers, but only as 1900 family card). My favorite video player - GomPlayer - does not work, no Java applications work stable and some more problems.

I’ve played with Vista during trial period and have decided to turn back
Windows XP. The system drive had been reformatted and XP installed. After the XP installation I had some troubles with system stability until I’ve not fixed the MBR - Master Boot Record. Now XP works fine for me.

Visual Studio: The project file ” has been renamed or is not longer in the solution

February 6th, 2008

Visual Studio error message

Problem:

You have removed a project outside of Visual Studio IDE, but that project was referenced by a Web site(s) included in same solution.
After the VS loading you are removing the absent project from a Solution Explorer.
Then you are trying to build your solution and got the error message shown at the picture:

The project file ” has been renamed or is not longer in the solution

Yes, it is true and you VS here is fully correct :)
But it does not solve the problem.

Solution:

Please look at the Property Pages of your web site(s) and you will see the the following - one (because we are talking about only one removed project) of the items in References tab will be marked as unavailable.
Remove it (click “Remove”), click “OK” and try to build your solution again.
Good luck :) !


resolving wireless connection issue in Windows Vista - shows “Local Only”

January 22nd, 2008

I got a connection issue with my Windows Vista when I just installed it over my Windows XP Media Edition.

The same wireless router was shown as “Local Only” in my list of available Wi-Fi connections.

I tried to find an answer over internet and found following topics with different solutions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

http://www.windowsvistaweblog.com/2007/05/26/windows…

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us…

But nothing worked for me.

Then I tried to reinstall Wireless connection setting on my Router using installation CD and it made the trick.

Please, let me know what helped you, because I still have the same issue while using my laptop in most of internet cafes and so on. As I understood, not every router resolves DHCP in a correct way from the Vista stand of point.

Thanks,
Alex
e-mail: alex@softlabz.com
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Welcome

January 7th, 2008

We would like to start the SoftLabz official blog with a well known phrase. So,

Hello, world!