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Deploying .NET apps that use EF and SQL CE 4.0

31 December, 2012 - Blog, Troubleshooting

I recently had to create a small application that uses a database. I opted for SQL CE 4.0 because it uses the same T-SQL syntax as MS SQL, it’s portable and you can very easily use it with Entity Framework.
When the time came to deploy my application and create a Setup file, I hit the wall. Before I’ve created the setup file I tried copying my app files to another computer which had preinstalled SQL CE 4.0 dependencies. When I tried to start my application i got “the specified store provider cannot be found in the configuration” error.

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How to make Gmail check your POP3 account more frequently

16 October, 2012 - Blog, Troubleshooting, Tutorials

Gmail has a nice feature which allows you to use it to check your email at other accounts that support POP3 access. However, Gmail by default fetches your mail only once every hour. Gmail’s mail fetcher actually regulates speed of fetching your mail based on how much/how often you get an email, so it will fetch your mail every couple of minutes if it figures out that you get an email that often.

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Debugging PHP scripts Visual Studio style

5 October, 2012 - Blog, Troubleshooting

Recently I’ve been focused on mainly Wordpress plugins and themes development and debugging was a huge annoyance to me. I’ve been doing it the wrong way, trying to use all kinds of Wordpress plugins for debugging, inserting echo and print_r statements into the source and all kinds of other hacks. There are obviously a lot of issues with this approach. Development is massively slowed down, and you are left with bunch of debugging variable dumps which you have to track and make sure you do not put into releasing code…

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Resolving yellow WAMP server status – freeing up port 80 for Apache

23 July, 2012 - Blog, Troubleshooting

If you have Window 7 or later you may have come across issues with WAMP server trying to start Apache service on port 80 and failing.

There are many conflict and issues that might have come up.
Before you try anything, check if you have ZoneAlarm, Nod32, or any other program/firewall that might be blocking Apache server.
If you’re sure that firewall isn’t the problem here is a couple of fixes that you can try.

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