tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235795022024-02-21T05:17:55.023-08:00Work Around your CodeTechie, Nerdy, Geeky Programming BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-79922508718195992612015-06-21T10:35:00.002-07:002015-06-21T10:35:57.940-07:00Is your Windows 10 Mobile Insider stucked at "Loading" home screen?I just use Windows 10 Mobile from Microsoft insider program, which is just beta software of next major mobile operating system from Microsoft. After a few days, my phone starts to get stucked before loading home screen, which just shows "Loading".
If you experience same issue, you can follow below:
1. Remove any sim card in your phone.
2. Press power button and volume down till it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-47845088322431197792015-06-03T08:26:00.000-07:002015-06-03T08:26:24.925-07:00How to reserve your Windows 10 for FREE?Microsoft has just posted excited announcement that Windows 10 is coming in less than 2 months time, 29 July 2015. Earlier Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be given for free to upgrade existing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 machine.
It is simple to reserve a free upgrade copy:
1. If you use existing Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 with latest March update, below Windows icon will appear on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-28385981328736559982015-04-25T09:57:00.000-07:002015-04-25T09:57:16.945-07:00Lumia 640: Disable Vibration at Navigation BarJust got a Lumia 640 to try out, nice bright orange color with good quality expected from Lumia phone, with exceptional price, definitely value for money.
However, as the phone does not have any soft button, the navigation bar (Start, back and search) is directly inside the screen. It is quite irritating that the phone always vibrate upon pressing any button in navigation bar. I did a bit of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-1253286840779256732014-07-31T11:01:00.000-07:002014-08-01T21:08:35.706-07:00Is your Lumia 1520 slower after upgrading to Windows Phone 8.1?I have just managed to get my phone to be upgraded to official Windows Phone 8.1 + Lumia Cyan.. Yay..!! :)
It took more than 30 minutes for the whole process to complete. First, there was update to Windows Phone 8 itself and then it would allow you to upgrade to Windows Phone 8. Overall, the process is very smooth.
However, just after upgrade, I can feel the phone is somewhat slower than beforeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-2344619600403211282014-07-16T09:04:00.002-07:002014-07-16T09:11:27.523-07:00Windows Phone 8.1 Keyboard: Where is my comma?For one that has already used Windows Phone 8.1 will have a shock when they start to type and the comma is nowhere to be found. Instead, you either need to type "&123" or press long on ".". This is too troublesome to type even normal sentence.
Apparently, this can be changed easily. Just go to settings > keyboard > advanced, and check "Show a comma key when available".
I think Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-86295867172027686832014-07-16T08:47:00.000-07:002014-07-16T08:52:46.976-07:00Windows Phone 8.1 + Lumia Cyan should land anytime from nowWith all the greatness of Windows Phone 8.1 and Lumia Cyan, I have been waiting for the arrival to my Lumia 1520. Now Nokia has published the availability and status of the update on their own website at this link. Well, my Lumia 1520 under starhub status is "under testing". Hopefully it will not take forever.
Well, I have also been lucky selected by Starhub to test out the Lumia 930. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-81335680226560900922014-06-08T03:33:00.002-07:002014-06-08T03:33:56.111-07:00SQL Server Login Error: The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authenticationOne of SharePoint Farm that I have configured for one client has recently failed with all error shows something like below:
The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication.
After many hours investigating, we found out that this SQL Server had 2 DNS name. This system has been used for many months without issue under this 2 DNS. After AD was upgraded, this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-17282690519164972822014-05-17T08:43:00.002-07:002014-05-17T08:44:44.487-07:00Free Gift Card for Lumia Users (SGD 45)Wow, Nokia just published new apps to allow Lumia users to redeem gift card with value of SGD 45 to get any paid apps in Windows Phone store. Quick grab yours here:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-sg/store/app/gift-voucher/18bca550-bf7a-42e4-a2e1-1501b4863f74
Follow the instruction shown in the apps, and wow, $45 just credited to my Microsoft Account wallet.
* Update: Just realize it is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-34078940597777703652014-04-25T08:28:00.000-07:002014-05-05T08:30:17.369-07:00How to update to your Windows Phone 8 to Windows Phone 8.1Windows Phone 8.1 brings tons of new interesting features. I believe there are lot of news out there where you can find what new features there are. Some features I like so far:
Background picture to Tile.With this new feature, start screen will be even more interesting, alive and more personal than ever before compare to any other mobile OS out there.
Action CentreWell, in a glance, this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-60287773871387702062013-04-16T09:10:00.000-07:002013-04-16T09:10:12.107-07:00SharePoint AppsI have not really explored the apps for SharePoint 2013, and to my surprise there are quite many apps available now in the market. If you would like to explore, you can follow this link.
If you wonder what apps in SharePoint 2013 means. Official explanation is below:
Apps are mini applications that extend what you can do with the new version of Office and SharePoint 2013. For example, with apps Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-91017860301956840252012-09-29T21:24:00.002-07:002012-09-29T21:24:25.365-07:00Resources to Start SharePoint 2013Well, you might already know that SharePoint 2013 beta has been released for quite some time. And, to kick start knowledge on this SharePoint 2013, below are few links for you to start:
Download SharePoint 2013 beta software: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx
Download SharePoint 2013 VM: http://gauravmahajan.net/2012/07/22/sharepoint-2013-virtual-machine/
If Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-37824376366089470542010-03-25T04:26:00.000-07:002010-03-25T04:33:57.372-07:00Stsadm -o migrateuser Generates Error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"I have been involved in some migration tasks for SharePoint, that includes changing of the domain name. SharePoint has quite easy ways of doing migration, as long as you don't meet some strange error messages (hey, I think this applies to any migration!). I will discuss about the data migration in more detailed, hope by next post (however, if you need some information for data migration in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-62080002692878095372010-03-09T18:28:00.000-08:002010-03-09T18:40:10.806-08:00SharePoint doesn't work well with IPv6I have just setup a new server farm for SharePoint. After finish installation for all server farm, I start configuring the Shared Service Provider, include activating SharePoint Search. Once the Search turned on, the whole SharePoint site is inaccessible from the server that hosts the Central Administration, all other Web Front End is ok. The page just displayed 503 - Service unavailable. IIS Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-38824611031099277852010-01-13T05:05:00.001-08:002010-01-13T05:24:07.158-08:00SharePoint: How to Move Default Virtual Directory/Site Path Location (Site and Central Administration)I have encountered requirement to move all the virtual directories to non-system drive. By just removing the default location from C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\xx to another drive and set the path in IIS will not solve the problem, somehow SharePoint keeps their own path to the original location, and displays some critical error instead.So the solution is to update the WebApplicationUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-17937858585028012352008-07-11T01:33:00.000-07:002008-07-11T01:38:47.767-07:00SharePoint 2007: Shared Services "Provision in Progress"I have one development environment that I use to test webpart or any customizations before deploy to the production server. However, I always failed to setup Shared Services for this particular server, which causes all the search, my site, profile, etc are not working. When the Shared Services are in provisioning stage, it's stopped with timeout error, and in the SharedServices list itself, it's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-53297030579060964732008-06-25T09:50:00.000-07:002008-06-25T10:05:06.629-07:00Gmail and IE7: Operation AbortedWell, I believe many of you have experienced this annoying issue. You try to load Gmail in IE7 and IE7 will popup "Operation Aborted". I usually try about 4-5 times, and at the end the Gmail can be loaded. I am not really sure what's wrong with this, and I hope it's not done purposely by either Microsoft or Google. Some said that this is Google way of responding to Microsoft and Yahoo saga, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-31362249158403773062008-06-23T20:28:00.000-07:002008-06-23T20:31:59.448-07:00SharePoint 2007: Default.aspx displayed "HTTP 500 Internal Error"I have experienced wierd behaviour in SharePoint, which if I type http://server-name/sitename/, it will show "HTTP 500 Internal Error", but when I type http://server-name/sitename/default.aspx, it shows the page correctly. The action I have done to the site is to edit the permission for this site (break the inheritance). I fixed the problem by inheriting the permission back from the parent site, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-49164831285479787652008-06-03T08:25:00.000-07:002008-06-03T10:27:40.838-07:00Feature '75a0fea7-c54f-46b9-86b1-2e103a8fedba' is not installed in this farm, and can not be added to this scopeWell, if you come to this page from Google, I believe you are working on demo environment of your SharePoint and try to install Application Templates from Microsoft, and you're kind of puzzled and stress, why the Application Templates cannot be installed, as you have done it smoothly in your own VPC.Well, one of the possible reason is ApplicationTemplateCore is not installed yet on your server Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-2106888363051554112008-06-01T22:49:00.000-07:002009-07-13T01:40:04.423-07:00SharePoint Designer: Show Line Break for Multi Text (Plain Text)If you have Multiline type column and set it with "Plain Text", you might have difficulty to show it using Data View (that is added using SharePoint Designer) for the content that has a line break. It will show as a single line. If you view the HTML Source of the page, the line-break character is actually printed there. It's just that HTML will not interpret such white-space character as line Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-6651777479162292802008-06-01T22:44:00.000-07:002008-06-01T22:49:38.783-07:00Access Denied when Accessing User Profiles and PropertiesIf you try to access User Profiles and Properties using account that is not part of Administrators group or account that is used to setup SharePoint, you might have problem accessing "User Profiles and Properties" (Access Denied) although you have been added to Farm's Administrator or Shared Services' Site Collection Administrator. What you need to do:Click on "Personalization Services PermissionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-6050161396231077582007-11-23T06:39:00.001-08:002007-11-23T06:42:03.036-08:00How to Setup Loopback AdapterRecently, I just got a new notebook, so need to develop something using VPC, but somehow a bit troublesome to configure the network, so decided to use Loopback Adapter instead, so that network can be created easily between the guest and host OS. And just found out that there is extremely easy way to setup Loopback Adapter:1. Open Device Manager2. At the top/root, right click, and select Add Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-30219268798242245702007-02-12T07:14:00.000-08:002007-02-12T07:39:10.506-08:00Import Mass Data to CRM 3.0: Unable to connect to the remote serverIf you have mass/bulk data to be imported which is a custom entity in Microsoft CRM 3.0, there is no other better way, rather than built your own application. By default, CRM 3.0 only provide Bulk Import for Account, Contact and other several system entities (if any). Good luck if you have a lot of custom entities that is not possible to use built-in Bulk Import.And I am not lucky that my projectUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-72590727201454988602007-02-07T02:51:00.000-08:002007-02-07T03:20:28.503-08:00MS CRM 3.0: Callout's ConfigurationAs you know that you won't be able to use configuration settings from web.config, since Callout is executed inside CRM 3.0. I am not sure how the execution of Callout, but I suspect it's still under w3wp process, but it's already handled by CRM 3.0 execution and we are not able to use common function in ASP.NET. It's a common requirement that we need to put some configuration like connection Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-1162105776423339682006-10-28T23:39:00.000-07:002006-10-29T00:12:25.536-07:00Refactoring: Replace Method with Method ObjectWell, reading Refactoring book from Martin Fowler, I feel some case of the refactoring I have used before without realizing it. The most interesting I have found so far is Replace Method with Method Object. The idea is if your method is too long, you should find a way to shorten it to make it more readable and self-explained. Well, self-explained can be done using comment in the code. But Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579502.post-1155809016112699812006-08-17T02:47:00.000-07:002006-08-17T03:03:36.126-07:00Javascript: DebuggerAlthough I already quite spent times at coding Javascript, I just knew this useful feature in Javascript, that we can put debugger keyword at new line of the code (without any semi colon) that will function like breakpoint. If your browser has already set to enable debugging (Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Uncheck Disabled Script Debugging, then when the browser execute that line, it will Unknownnoreply@blogger.com