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MVC 4 website with .NET 4.5 on IIS 8 in Windows 8 gives 403.14 forbidden error [closed]

August 15, 2023 by Tarik

In “Turn Windows Features on or off”, under Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web Services -> Application Development Features, make sure that .NET Extensibility 3.5, .NET Extesibility 4.5, ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET 4.5, ISAPI Extensions, and ISAPI Filters are SELECTED. This was outlined here: http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-using-aspnet-35-and-aspnet-45#TOC301258515 but since that refered to server 2012 instead of windows … Read more

How to pass values (parameters) between XAML pages?

August 6, 2023 by Tarik

Methods to pass parameters 1. Using the query string You can pass parameters through the query string, using this method means have to convert your data to strings and url encode them. You should only use this to pass simple data. Navigating page: page.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri(“/Views/Page.xaml?parameter=test”, UriKind.Relative)); Destination page: string parameter = string.Empty; if (NavigationContext.QueryString.TryGetValue(“parameter”, out … Read more

Is it possible to call an awaitable method in a non async method? [duplicate]

August 6, 2023 by Tarik

In non-async method you can either start the Task asynchronously and not wait for the result: public void MyCallingMethod() { Task t = myMethodAsync(); } or you can attach ContinueWith event handler, which is called after finishing the Task, public void MyCallingMethod() { myMethodAsync().ContinueWith( result => { // do stuff with the result }); } … Read more

SignalR: There was an error invoking Hub method “XXX”

July 30, 2023 by Tarik

Clearly you have some problems on the server side. But to find out what’s the problem you need to see a detailed error. For security reasons SignalR doesn’t give you a detailed error by default. But you can edit your code to get the detailed error. First you need to add this code to the … Read more

VB6 Running on Windows 8?

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

EDIT: Microsoft is going to support the VB6 runtime in Windows 8. VB6 apps still work in Windows 8 in the Developer Preview, as of September 13th, 2011).. They also run in the Consumer Preview and as stated above, Microsoft are committed to having VB6 just work in Windows 8.

How can I make SmartScreen Filter trust a self-signed certificate

July 20, 2023 by Tarik

To quote from MSDN’s website: Detractors may claim that SmartScreen is “forcing” developers to spend money on certificates. It should be stressed that EV code signing certificates are not required to build or maintain reputation with SmartScreen. Files signed with standard code signing certificates and even unsigned files continue to build reputation as they have … Read more

Windows Phone 8 emulator can’t connect to the internet

June 8, 2023 by Tarik

I think I’ve finally found the answer, but you’re probably not going to like it. It would appear that the phone emulator requires you to have a second network adapter to dedicate to this purpose. Personally, I run Windows 8 in VMWare, and so a second network adapter is free for me. Anyway, after you … Read more

Unable to Activate Windows Store App

June 6, 2023 by Tarik

This happened to me once too, but the deleting build directories advice fixed it. Specifically, you just need to delete the bin\Debug and bld\Debug folders in your projects. Their contents will be regenerated by Visual Studio when you rebuild. I assume that this is only one project since it’s a Hello World app; otherwise I … Read more

tools.jar seems to be not in Android Studio classpath on Windows 8

June 4, 2023 by Tarik

I had this same problem and was able to fix it after wasting about 3 hours: Just copy tools.jar from %JAVA_HOME%\lib to (Android Studio Root)\lib

What must I do to make my methods awaitable?

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

You only need to return an awaitable. Task/Task<TResult> is a common choice; Tasks can be created using Task.Run (to execute code on a background thread) or TaskCompletionSource<T> (to wrap an asynchronous event). Read the Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern for more information.