First attempt to develop for Windows 10
After installed Windows 10 Build 10074 and Visual Studio 2015 RC on both my desktop PC and a development use VM, it's time to try develop and deploy Windows 10 app. Here some of the stuff I found out in the process:
- To deploy Windows 10 application to remote machines, the target machine has tot be running Windows 10 Build 10074 or later. Surface 1 with Windows RT running on it does NOT work (I tried with Visual Studio 2015 Remote Debug RC installed on it, and the deployment stopped when attempted to install .Net Core on it.
- Make sure you have Visual Studio 2015 RC Remote Debugging Tool installed on your remote debug target machine. No firewall setup is needed though.
- In additional to the Remote Debugging tool, the target machine also needs to set up for Windows 10 debugging.
I followed the instructions here and it worked out ok. Eventually I have supposed to be able to turn on debugging mode by selecting "Setting--> For Developer" on the target Windows 10 environment, but that didn't work.
Setting up Subversion 1.8 server and client
I've been using my portable subversion server with for quite a while and I was happy with it. But recently I have a need to set up a new Subversion server to my version control need, and I think it's about time to create a Subversion 1.8 portable server (instead of the 1.6 which was the last one I set up).
Setting up is straight forward after some googling:
- Download server at http://www.subversiondownload.com/ and go for WANdisco, install, and then copy the installed directory. (The one at http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion seems to be only for client)
- Use TortoiseSVN to create a repository.
- Set up my batch file to call svnserver with my repository.
- Set up password and config file in repository.
- Start the batch file.
Fail to install Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate on Lenovo S12
I really don't like my Lenovo S12 since very beginning. And now I have one more reason: installation of Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate HANGED while the installation applying "Visual Studio Core Features" during installation process. I actually seen the same problem on S12 before, but back then it was Windows 8 RC and VS 2012 Beta. Now BOTH products are RTMed, and yet I STILL have this problem of installing Visual Studio 2012. So quite obviously I can't use S12 as development machine. Suddenly I have no incentive to set up the machine anymore.
In fact I tried to give it another chance. I have the machine rebooted, it went into the VS 2012 installation again, and yet it failed once again. So yep, S12 is dead to me.
And in fact I Had trouble uninstalling Visual Studio 2012 after that crashing problem. This is, though, giving me a good excuse to use the new Windows 8 feature called "Remove everything and reinstall Windows". You can find it under the PC Setting in General tab. At first I thought it's something magical, but turns out it's just forcing you to run to installation process all over again, INCLUDING REENTER the Windows 8 Product ID, which I found it kind of lame. Maybe the similar feature "Refresh your PC without affecting your files" will do a better, I thought. So I did.
And ... still failed.
And ultimately I still have to do the old school way, uninstall those installed Visual STudio 2012 components one by one. Damn piece of shit. Wasted me so much time.
Seems like I need to stay with Win7 on S12.
Running multiple instance of an app on Windows 8 Metro
I just found out that in order to start multiple instance of Visual Studio 2012, I can't do it from Metro UI, but instead I need to explicitly run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe". So I create a shortcut of desktop save me from remembering.
Still no IIS localhost WCF web service unit testing solution in Visual Studio 2012
After
sending my question to StackOverflow regrading to failing to run WinRT unit test suite on Visual Studio 2012 when all web services are hosting on localhost, I spent some time tried to see if there's other project type that I could use so that I can call localhost web service thru the WinRT based WCF Web Service Client project. The answer is so far, no.
Guess for the web service part, I have to just ignore unit testing, and take the leap of faith.
Ah, Phone gap ....
I was trying to follow the phone gap instruction
on this page, but found that it didn't work. Later I realized that I need to put the CordovaStarter-1.9.0.zip file under "C:\Users\{My account}\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#", and then on the Visual Studio 2010, under "Visual C#", I use "CordovaStarter", and vala, I am able to start building a phone gap application.
PhoneGap, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7 SDK
I was trying to do something with Phone Gap, but I don't want to pollute my regular work Windows 7 environment. So I switched to Windows 8, and tried to install Windows Phone 7 SDK, which was required by Phone Gap. I got error message. Bummer. And then I saw that there's 7.1.1 SDK Update. So I tried that one, and also failed. So screw it, I am at least not setting it up on Windows 8.
Daz Studio 3 64 bit failed to work on my Dell 6600 Windows 8 RC
I tried installing the latest driver on Dell Precision 6600 with Windows 8 RC, and still got the following error:
"Daz Studio requires at least OpenGL version 1.3. You machine currently provides OpenGL 1.1. Please contact your video card provider to get updated drivers or upgrade to an OpenGL 1.3 compatible graphics card.
Sigh. Give up for now.
Daz Studio 3 64 bit on Windows 8 RC
To install Daz Studio 3 64 bit (8969_DAZStudio_3_Win64.exe) on Windows 8 RC, you need to set the exe with "Windows 7 compatibility" and run it as Administrator.
Subversion database in SkyDrive... oh no don't do it
Once again I got into some serious problem with the subversion database in SkyDrive, just like the problem I had with SourceSafe and Subversion database on Dropbox. So ,,, no, don't put those version control databases on a cloud drive. It doesn't work well.
