After our server people did some MS SQL database restores from some old backups to find some data, some .NET websites we had on the server started showing an error. (note I couldn’t see the error and had to disable custom errors from remote only, see here http://tech.ralpharama.co.uk/1/viewing-errors-remote-machine-after-sql-restores-broke-sites Server Error in '/' Application. Cannot open database... » read more
Getting CDO.Message.1 error ‘80040220’ The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid. When sending mail? In Classic ASP and perhaps others you might run across this, it was driving me insane as it worked fine on other sites, but not on this particular one. We were running our sites on Amazon AWS, Windows Server 2008 R2. Solution: ... » read more
For no reason a rebuild of a .NET MVC project created these errors that wouldn’t go away with restarts, cleans, running as administrator, etc: Error 383 Unable to copy file “..\root\foo\bar\thing\test.thing.xml” to “bar\thing\test.thing.xml”. Access to the path ‘bar\thing\test.thing.xml’ is denied As detailed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2895898/visual-studio-build-fails-unable-to-copy-exe-file-from-obj-debug-to-bin-debug The only thing that worked for me was the answer by https://stackoverflow.com/users/2435679/adrian-booth When... » read more
After creating a new Razor web forms app I scaffolded in an existing database: Scaffold-DbContext "Server=<server>;Database=<db-name>;User ID=<username>;Password=<password>;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models And kept getting an error on the newly created entries: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields After ensuring I had added Entity Framework to the project using NuGet, I still got the... » read more