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Umbraco Installation in Shared Web Hosting

fransiscuss — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:51:50 +0000

I tried to install umbraco in shared webhosting from the control panel but instead the error that I’m getting is

The application could not be installed: Error occured in Web App Gallery module

From my research it seems that there is an error in the Web App Gallery module, some article it says that the Web App Gallery module is out of date. But this is shared web hosting so there is nothing much I can do to fix this. So how to install umbraco manually?

1. Create a blank DB in your SQL Server 2008 for your Umbraco

2. Create a SQL User for the Umbraco DB in the step 1

3. Download umbraco from http://umbraco.codeplex.com

4. Extract the content to the downloaded package to the root of your domain wwwroot folder via FTP

5. Make sure the default website is already created

6. Make sure the .NET framework is being set to .NET 4.0 (Integrated)

7. Run the installation through www.yourdomain.com/install/default.aspx

8. Follow the steps, it will ask you the database name and the database user along the way

9. Once the installation finished, please make sure you delete the install folder for security purpose

Web Service Tester

fransiscuss — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:27:46 +0000

This is an application to access your Web Service/API without worrying to create your own client application for the sake of testing. Personally, I’m using soapUI (an open source application to test web service)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/

I’d prefer to use tool this because it provides you a transparent communication between the client and the Web Service and it’s really simple to use and configure. It’d save you a lot of time to debug the issue for your client. You can trace it down whether the issue is in the client or in the web service itself

Remapping svc extension in IIS 7 extension handlers

fransiscuss — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:55:45 +0000

If you open your WCF/ svc file in your localhost through browser and it just display blank page then what might happen is you don’t have handler associated with svc extension

To verify it, go to your IIS and go to IIS Handler Mappings and try to find an svc extension entry, but if you couldn’t find extension SVC exists on the list, then you can remap/re-add the svc extension by running

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\ServiceModelReg.exe –i

*if you are still using 32 bit then you just need to replace Framework64 with Framework

Disabling Time Synchronization of Virtual PC image

fransiscuss — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:21:04 +0000

I was having the problem where I tried to change the date and time on my VPC environment, it keeps resetting it back. To resolve the issue, you need to edit the *.VMC file and add the highlighted section below, resave the file and launch your VPC.

            true



                false

Another Entry to My Blog

fransiscuss — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:15:20 +0000

I’ve decided to buy a domain which basically link to the same server. My new domain is http://www.fransiscus.com.au and at the same time I’ll migrate my content from Joomla to WordPress .I will try to blog more and writing a better blog to share more .NET knowledge with everyone. I feel so excited to move to my new workplace on the 8th september 2008 and I hope new place = new project = new knowledge to be shared with everyone

Undo compressing old files by windows

fransiscuss — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:37:48 +0000

My computer was losing its graphic card driver and somehow losing sound as well and I realised that i’ve been compressing the old files via disk clean up.

I thought i want to do reformat my PC, I tried to google to undo the compressing old files by windows and I’ve found that you need to run this from the command prompt. It will uncompress all the old files that has been compressed through windows disk clean up.I wonder why they don’t create a functionality to undo this.

C:\>compact /u /s /a /q /i *.*

COMException (0×80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID

fransiscuss — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:19:00 +0000

I’ve got this error when i tried to deploy my service with .NET wrapper for VB6 component :
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0×80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

The workaround of this problem are:

Go to regedit and check for this entry {D8749532-0D3D-43B6-973C-C1D62BB6B3C7} ,(replace this with your clsid key) which is under “\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID”, If it is not exist then it almost certainly that you haven’t registered your VB6 component it self

Now you need to go to your project folder and find a reference folder and then copy the DLL that you created before (there will be several DLL under that folder, I believe you need to pick DLL with the largest size) and copy it to the same folder with your .NET DLL on production server

Register that DLL using “regsvr32 filename” (e.g regsvr32 APLCryptoCore.dll) and then restart your service and then it should be working

Dynamic array in VB/VB.NET/ASP

fransiscuss — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:55:40 +0000

Time to go back to old school ASP, I found that i need to create an array that contains a list of languages from a table in database. I would like to make this array length as many as the number of rows in language table. yes you can do it through keyword of ReDim and Preserve

     <%
                dim objLanguage
                dim languageCount
                dim languageArray()

                languageCount = 0

                set objLanguage = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
                objLanguage.ActiveConnection = MM_CTG_STRING
                objLanguage.Source = "SELECT * FROM Languages"
                objLanguage.CursorType = 0
                objLanguage.CursorLocation = 2
                objLanguage.LockType = 3
                objLanguage.Open()

                WHILE NOT objLanguage.EOF
                    response.Write("

")
                    response.Write(objLanguage("Language"))
                    response.Write("


")

                    ReDim Preserve languageArray(languageCount)
                    languageArray(languageCount) = objLanguage("LanguageID")
                    languageCount = languageCount + 1
                    objLanguage.MoveNext()
                WEND

                objLanguage.Close()
                Set objLanguage = nothing
            %>

App_GlobalResources maps to a directory outside this application, which is not supported

fransiscuss — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:46:31 +0000

I got this error when i switched the default web server in visual studio to use IIS instead of visual studio integrated web server. To fix this error is by changing the IIS Default Web Site Properties in (Home Directory -> Local Path). Remove any “\” character at the end of the directory. IIS will automatically add one which causing double “//” at then end and it causes problem if you manually add one before. You can check Default Web Site Properties -> ASP.NET -> File Location for actual setting information

Controlling PDF document through parameter

fransiscuss — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:54:27 +0000

It’s a simple thing but might be essential. Sometimes you would like to have a link to your pdf document into a particular page. This is how you can do it. Add “page=” and the page no. This is the example

http://www.adobe.com/prodlist.pdf#page=3

For the full documentation about controlling the page size, you can download it from Adobe directly by clicking here