Why does my .NET application crash when run from a network drive?

It indeed has to do with the fact the apps on a network location are less trusted then on your local hdd (due to the default policy of the .NET framework). If I’m not mistaken Microsoft finally corrected this annoyance in .NET 3.5 SP1 (after a lot of developers complaining). I google’d it: .NET Framework … Read more

SecurityException: Failed to find provider null for user 0; on ActiveAndroid on Android 8.0

As pointed out by @GeigerGeek security changes on Android 26 and above require you to specify the content provider in your manifest. For ActiveAndroid you can add the below to your Manifest and change your package name. <provider android:name=”com.activeandroid.content.ContentProvider” android:authorities=”<your.package.name>” android:enabled=”true” android:exported=”false”> </provider> If using flavours on your build process you can use below instead: … Read more

Android: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: start Intent

You have to add android:exported=”true” in the manifest file in the activity you are trying to start. From the android:exported documentation: android:exported Whether or not the activity can be launched by components of other applications — “true” if it can be, and “false” if not. If “false”, the activity can be launched only by components … Read more

The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched

EventLog.SourceExists enumerates through the subkeys of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog to see if it contains a subkey with the specified name. If the user account under which the code is running does not have read access to a subkey that it attempts to access (in your case, the Security subkey) before finding the target source, you will see … Read more

Java SecurityException: signer information does not match

This happens when classes belonging to the same package are loaded from different JAR files, and those JAR files have signatures signed with different certificates – or, perhaps more often, at least one is signed and one or more others are not (which includes classes loaded from directories since those AFAIK cannot be signed). So … Read more