If you are a developer or an IT Pro in Northern Ireland then hopefully you are already a member of NIMTUG...

lol... It's getting just like the Minority Report!

Thanks Damien. Much appreciated.
/P.

I used to use FreeTextBox 3.x (a ASP.net HTML editor component) for liitle projects and admin functions, but I stumbled across FCKEditor August last year when I was trawling the web for a collegue that needed a HTML editor for an Oracle/Java application. It really did a good job for them and made their application IMHO.

I'd seen it a while back but only actually started playing around with it recently and I'm very impressed with the builtin file/image browser and configurable spell checker not to mention the clean xhtml it outputs.

Have you had a chance to look at this?

Hi David,

yes vonage did get back to me with

"We thank you for your valued business suggestion and we pride ourselves on being responsive to customer feedback and ideas.  Your idea has been forwarded on to Vonage UK Development Team for review.

As you can appreciate, we get a considerable number of suggestions such as this some of which we develop, others we file and re-visit when and if the idea falls with our strategy. "

Unfortunately I've been experiencing allot of problems with my vonage recently and it can't be a bandwidth issue as I've a 10Mb/s connection. I've contacted support about it and in a mind to cancel the service if the issues aren't resolved.


Damien

Most of my business calls are to the USA so I'm using Skype which now has free calls to US phone numbers.  I've just bought a cordless skype phone also (waiting for delivery) so I don't have to be chained to my PC during US business hours.
Anyone else using Skype?

Has anyone any suggestions on good value for money PC's for development purposes?
I've just returned from the US where everyone buys DELL and HP - is it the same here?

Dell are pretty big in the UK. We have Dell machines at work and we've only had a couple of problems but the business support is excelent so the issues have been fixed very quickly.

I accidentally deleted David's post when deleting spam comments, sorry David.

I too use skype, mostly when I'm either ringing abroad or abroad ringing home. I noticed the other day that they were offering free calls to the US and Canada, pity there isn't as much competition in the UK & Europe that drives prices down to this level.

I found this site ...
http://www.hotukdeals.com/index.phtml

which has some pretty good deals on almost anything online.

Keep an eye on www.dell.co.uk/outlet and you might pick up a deal (Grade 1 Refurb). Likewise if you look up member "dellfactoryoutlet" on ebay (from community section), you will be able to pick up something with a small scratch or mark for a FRACTION of the price.. (Grade 2 Refurb)

See a dual core 3GHz with 4gb ram and 2x160 hard drives go for £500 on ebay over the weekend with them.

I have a website on saving money, I thought this might be useful: http://www.moneyinfomaster.com.

I see that it adds the old "_vti_cnf" crap to every folder in a site - same as Frontpage used to. pah.

Very clear

Thanks a lot it really helps. I've got same issue today. After I fixed test application config file nunit start working properly.

I am having the same config issue. NUnit thinks my config is so unhip now that it is version 2.2.8. Older NUnit versions have played nicely with it, so it's totally lost its self-esteem. Haven't found the problem in the config yet though.

you hit my problem nail on the head.  nice post.  thanks

Dell seem to have good deals everywhere. I'm in Spain and came across this site http://www.megaoferton.com Good for expats deciding which country to buy from

Hi,

I had the exact same problem with the exception that the tests was working within the VS IDE (TestDriven.NET) but not with the NUnit GUI.

Thanks to this post, I looked at my config file and finally diagnose that french characters in XML Comments were causing the problem.  For example, as soon as I add a comment like:
<!-- bla bla é -->   it crashes.
if I replace it by
<!-- bla bla e -->  it works....

I had te same problem with error#2.
I had changed my App.config, added some paths in there.
after checking my App.config it seemed to be a fault in the construction of the string.
"c:\stuff & others" should be "c:\stuff amp; others" and problem was solved.

Thanks, for the hint!!!!

AGGHH excactly the same problem!!! cost me 2 hours!

Tanxxxx!

Your opinion bright up my day. Thank you. The key is app.config.
Obviously NUnit test convey confusing error message for me.
You save my whole day. Thank you.

I think they are pulling a fast on, people are focused on the product/value of the supposed energy technology and are missing the product value inherent in the proposal and subsequent furor about it.

I prepose that the product they are building is a risk analysis model of international scientific and internet feedback regarding significantly challenging claims for any product. The company is listed in the Dublin tech School as a "Technology Risk Management Firm", which would mean if they built significant analytical data from the blogoshpere, the web traffic and the forum traffic on their website that has come in response to the claim that it could be leveraged in the product risk management consulting business.

So basically the "SCAM" is the product, they never have to produce a product or pay anyone, their scientific accolades dont matter because their business is based on marketing statistics and probabilities.

Thnaks dear,
                  I read your post and it helped...i removed the line from the web.config
which loads the assembly deleted the reference to the dll. Again after referencing the dll, it works fine.
Rohit

Thanks for the tip.  Once I checked my app.config file, I found the problem.

Thanks, this post led me straight to our issue.

I added this to app.config and then it gave this error.
 <appSettings>
   <add key="WebServiceURL"
        value="http://xxx.xx/customer/customerservice.asmx"/>
 </appSettings>

When I removed it. It works again.

Thx for this thread

Jsut put your

<appSettings>
  <add key="WebServiceURL"
       value="http://xxx.xx/customer/customerservice.asmx"/>
</appSettings>

at the bottom of the app.config file and it will work


Jagdish

I was getting the same error too and nothing seemed to work for me... then i realized that nunit.framework.dll was missing in my projects debug folder. I just copied it and tried runnig the test again... booom it went ..:)

Hmmm, tough one. I'm getting the same error (both in the NUnit GUI as well as within TestDriven.NET.

What's odd is, it only happens on some of our machines.

I tried fixing it like the Google Groups post said, didn't work. Found your solution posted here -- unfortunately I don't have a .config file for the dll I'm testing; no config files in play here at all, as far as I can tell.

Any other ideas?

What version of NUnit and TestDriven.Net are you using Judah? Make sure all the machines have the correct/same version of NUNit installed as if you specify the version number and you have a different version you may get this error also.

I've had the same problem, I was exposing an enum as part of a data contract on WCF and seeing the returning message crash out.

I reverted to a primitive type and it solved the problem.

Thanks for this Damien. Very helpful.

Regards,

David

Cheers for the heads up, big fan of the Resharper.  I’ve also been using the Resharper (R#) v4 nightly builds to get the LINQ & XAML support.

It is a pity; .Net 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are both allot more than a collection of fixes (even thou they include over 100 fixes).

There are such goodies as ASP.NET URLs routing support (nice clean URLs) which allows you to define the syntax of the URL (as seen in MVC), ASP.NET Dynamic Data, improved WPF designer (I’ve had my had my fair share of issues with this past year), “Back Button” support for AJAX enabled web applications... and so much more.

It is more like .Net 4.0 than a simple Service Pack! (Another misleading name)

If you care here is where I heard all about the included new features from better men than I:

Scott Gu: weblogs.asp.net/.../visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx

.Net Rocks Podcasts: www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx

Now I am torn between which of the 2 to choose... R#v4 or VS9 & .NET 3.5 SP1.

I’ve been really digging the Visual Studio integrated unit test runner allot and the productivity and macro support within Resharper for creating new Class from templates.  

P.S. I had a colleague that had to reinstall visual studio 2005 due to a dodgey build (I can’t remember the number of hand but it was a few weeks ago Note: 799 has been ok for me)

R#v4 Nightly Builds: (in case any stray readers are interested) www.jetbrains.net/.../ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds

I got this issue after upgrading my version;  It was working for other team members but not me.  I was able to fix this issue by running Clean Solution within Visual Studio, then rebuild all.  That seemed to fix my issue.

Id say it is a service pack Because these are Items that should have been with 3.5 to begin with but were not ready?

Damien,

My name is Tom Fuller and I work for Microsoft on the WCF support team.  I just worked through this issue with another customer and we found that you do *not* need to make the web application project as updateable to get WCF services to work.  The only tricky part is keeping the application project name and virtual directory name in sync.  If you don't you'll need to fix the customString node in the .compile file.  I have written up some instructions at forums.microsoft.com/.../ShowPost.aspx

Thanks, this was really helpful.

~Paras

Thanks you just saved me a lot of time!

void main() { printf(&quot;Hello Kidoos World&quot;); return 0; } Syntax Highlighting started working

I solved the problem by copying the nunit.framework.dll into the debug folder and ran the tests successfully. Thanks Shehzad and Everyone.

To fix Enum problem you need to fully specify enum values e.g.

enum Test

{ Code1, Code2} - doesn't work

enum Test

{Code1=1,Code2=2} - works