Posts Categorized: Windows 7

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 9

Posted by & filed under Miscellaneous, Windows 7.

Due to some VPN connectivity issues, today I had to rollback my IE installation, and I couldn’t find it in the control panel, Add or remove programs. I deselected the check box in Windows Programs and Features dialog, but it removed the Internet explorer from my computer. Later I found the solution in Microsoft website. [...]

How to add Tasks to Jumplists in .NET and Windows 7

Posted by & filed under .Net, Windows 7, WPF.

Windows 7 provides a new taskbar feature for applications called Jumplists. Jumplists will appear, when user right-clicks on a application icon in the taskbar. By default you see a list of recent files opened and two entries to launch and detach the application. .NET 4.0 provides a managed API that allows you to easily manipulate [...]

Cannot publish because a project failed to build

Posted by & filed under Miscellaneous, Visual Studio, Windows 7.

Yesterday while working on one ClickOnce project deployment, I got an interesting error like this. It was working long back, but suddenly it stopped working. Then I found the problem, it was because of .Net Framework 4.5 developer preview installation. I un installed it. You may also need to repair the Visual Studio installation, otherwise [...]

Fuslogvw.exe and diagnosing .NET assembly binding issues

Posted by & filed under .Net, .Net 4.0, Miscellaneous, Visual Studio, Windows 7.

Yesterday while working with NUnit, I got an exception like this It was working fine day before yesterday, and I didn’t modified any system settings, so I didn’t understand what went wrong. Instead of looking into more details, I reinstalled NUnit, but it didn’t worked. Then I tried with NUnit console application, and it was [...]

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail

Posted by & filed under .Net, .Net 3.0 / 3.5, .Net 4.0, Visual Studio, Windows 7.

Today I got a comment from Vitor, Vitor is getting an exception like this while starting application. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. So I thought of work around this issue. To reproduce the [...]