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April 15, 2014

Exception was thrown by the target of an invocation – Visual Studio 2010 | 2012

After installing some recent updates to some visual studio extensions and features, I started getting the following error when I was trying to start up Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012. “exception was thrown by the target of an invocation” After Googling around for a little bit, I found a Stack Overflow article which described the issue. Apparently there...

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June 30, 2013

Recover Deleted Files

It’s happened to us all once or twice… You delete a few files, empty your bin, then think “O crap, I needed those files”. Well the good new is there might be a chance to recover those selected files. All that really happens when you delete a file, picture, etc… is your operating system with remove any pointers to that...

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May 21, 2013

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

Debugging an application which calls another server/service over SSL? If you are using a self signed certificate, most likely you’ve seen the error message “The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure” before. If you do get this, there are some things you can do so do not fret. First off, do you already have a certificate, but...

Development/Tech Fixes Comment: 1

April 13, 2012

Store update, insert, or delete statement affected an unexpected number of rows (0). Entities may have been modified or deleted since entities were loaded. Refresh ObjectStateManager entries.

I don’t know how many times when I was debugging my application which had two databases communicating, I got the following error : Store update, insert, or delete statement affected an unexpected number of rows (0). Entities may have been modified or deleted since entities were loaded. Refresh ObjectStateManager entries. This basically means something updated the row since the last...

C#/SQL/Tech Fixes Comments: 2

March 13, 2012

Package ‘Microsoft SQL Managment Studio Package’ failed to load

I had a fresh Windows 7 operating system, SQL Server install, and had just finished installing SQL Server management Studio(SSMS). I tried running SSMS and got the failed to load error. I had noticed when I was researching this error there were a few solutions besides the one I found, so I thought I’d compile them here. Solution 1 : Re-installing SQL...

SQL/Tech Fixes/Tips and Tricks Comments: 2

January 30, 2012

The OutputPath property is not set for project

I recently got the error “The OutputPath property is not set for project ‘[ProjectName]’. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration=’Debug’ Platform=’BPC’. This error may also appear if some other project is trying to follow a project-to-project reference to this project, this project has been unloaded or...

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December 13, 2011

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code is different from the orginal version.

I noticed that my code was not being reflected in the current build of my application. Then taking a closer look and setting a break point at the code that was not being ran, I hit F5 and noticed a bubble with a warning triangle that had the following message. The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code...

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October 27, 2010

Apple Ipod 5G Sound Fix

While listening to my Ipod the other day, the sound started to sputter then give out. I tried blowing compressed air down the headphones jack, resetting the Ipod settings, and even resetting the software on the Ipod. I finally found the problem though getting angry with the device. It seems a chip or connector is loose in the bottom right...