Rom's Rants

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

WORKAROUND: The value for the property "Settings Property Name" is not valid for the current language.

Symptoms: You are setting up your DBML file in Visual Studio 2008 so that you can use LINQ to SQL, and when you try to compile, you get the following error message:

The value for the property "Settings Property Name" is not valid for the current language.

Cause:You are using a named connection string and the key for that connection string has a period in it, like "Sql.Finance.ReadWrite."

Solution: Rename your connection string key to get rid of the periods, and nag Microsoft to fix this issue.

Labels: LINQ, Visual Studio, Workarounds

posted by Michael Russell at 2/05/2008 01:14:00 PM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

WORKAROUND: WSE Web References Not Upgraded In VS2008

Symptoms:
You are using Visual Studio 2008 to upgrade a Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET project that used Web Service Enhancements 3.0 (WSE 3.0). After upgrading, the secured reference is missing.

Solution:
Keep a copy of your old project.
After upgrading your project, open the old project in Visual Studio 2005.
Select "Show All Files" in Solution Explorer, then drill down into "Web References," then your WSE web reference, then Reference.map and finally into Reference.cs or Reference.vb, depending on your language of choice.
There will be two classes in here. The Wse class (which was removed by the VS2008 upgrade) will be at the top of the file. Copy that class into the same file in your VS2008 project.

Labels: Visual Studio

posted by Michael Russell at 11/27/2007 09:30:00 AM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

WORKAROUND: Visual Studio 2008 Fails To Install

Symptoms:
You are running as a limited user on Windows Vista and when you run Visual Studio 2008's installer and approve the UAC prompt, setup either hangs during the .NET Framework 3.5 installation or the installation hangs during setup.

Workaround:
Reboot your machine.
Log in as an administrator.
Install the .NET Framework 3.5 installer by itself.
Reboot your machine.
Log in as your normal user.
Install Visual Studio 2008 as normal.

Labels: Vista, Visual Studio

posted by Michael Russell at 11/21/2007 05:05:00 PM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions