Value Exception info as it was Gold

Everybody who is programming professionally knows that Exceptions carry information that can save you a lot of trouble, beginners and lamers ignore that simple fact. Counter productive exception hiding or re-throwing original exception while clearing the stack is very, very frustrating.

WatiN cannot start IE

Today my new, Administrator right’s free, ccnet installation gave me „the finger” while trying to run WatiN test fixtures.: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005. at WatiN.Core.IE.CreateNewIEAndGoToUri(Uri uri, LogonDialogHandler logonDialogHandler, Boolean createInNewProcess) at WatiN.Core.IE..ctor() As it turns out silmple …

Manual NCover setup

Recently I’ve been migrating a ccnet environment, including the NCover installation. I’m lazy so i just copied files hoping that if paths are the same/correct then everything will work auto-magically. It did not, NCover need a small configuration to be put in windows registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWow6432NodeCLSID{6287B5F9-08A1-45E7-9498-B5B2E7B02995}] …

.NET 3.0 development in Visual Studio 2005

Today i finally managed to convince my VS 2005 to create a .NET 3.0 projects. I not exactly sure what combinations of install/uninstall did the trick… here are extensions that I suspect should be enough: Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit for Windows Vista™ and .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components Visual …

WebSevice call from vbs script

There are times when you have to integrate with a system. You do everything as documentation said you should, you run your integration test and… fail, …miserably, …with non-informative exception and no clue whatsoever. You tell the „other guys” that either their system does not work as expected or the …

Retrieve the LoaderExceptions / Bad Image Format

Today I got : Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. While NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes wnated to do a type crawl on my assembly or System.BadImageFormatException: Próbowano załadować program w niepoprawnym formacie. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) While starting up a an .NET …

Domain controller firewall

I have recently deployed a domain controller (Active Directory) in a small office. I have suspected that Firewall configuration/exceptions will be updated auto-magically… I should just work, it nothing hard to automate… but no. Anyway , instructions said go there for firewall configuration instructions, so I have went and I …

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