Wednesday, April 28, 2010

SQL Server 2008 Installation: Rule “Restart Computer” Failed

Something hinky went wrong when I installed SQL Server 2008 and the "Restart Computer" rule kept failing no matter how many times I rebooted. After some Googling I found this page which suggested clearing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations Registry key. I cleared the key and I now the Restart Computer rule passed.

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Windows 7 refuse to sleep because mouse keeps waking it up. How to stop the mouse wake up?

Do you put your computer into sleep often ? Do you ever accidently touched the mouse and all the sudden find your computer just woke up ? Well to me I don’t purposely to put my computer into sleep often, but instead it sleeps by itself when I don’t use it for over 30 minutes. When that happens chances are I don’t really need to use thecomputer at the moment. But I often I ended up waking up the computer when I try to move around the stuff on my desk, that lead to the mouse to move and eventually lead to the computer to start waking up.

So here is how you can stop the mouse trigger your PC from sleep. This works on both Windows 7 and vista.

First go to start menu search "Mouse"

Click the first result under Control Panel

Go to Hardware tab > Double Click the mouse in the list > Power Management > Uncheck the "Allow this device to wake the computer"

You are done, once you have unchecked this option, you don’t have to worry about accidently touched your mouse while your computer is on sleep anymore.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

PrimeObjects Runtime Requirements

PrimeObjects provides web based online business software built on a SaaS enterprise application platform. PrimeObjects software can be run and has been tested on the following four browsers.
 
1. Internet Explorer Ver. 8.0 + on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
2. Firefox Ver. 3.5.7 + on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
3. Safari Ver.4.0.4 + on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
4. Google Chrome Ver.4.0.249.78 + on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
 
Additional requirements for some features
1.       Flash need to be supported and enabled on the browser to upload document and play flash video
2.       PrimeObjects supports playing of four types of videos online. They are flash video, media player video, real player video and apple’s quick time video. To play the videos in a specific format, the add-on of the corresponding video player need to be installed properly on the browser.
 
Note: The operation system should have all latest patches applied.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Pass OnLoadJS in the parameter of the form

The OnLoadJS field on the EntityUI record allows us to define the customized OnLoad javascripts to a form. However in some senarios, we may want to pass the OnLoad javascript in the parameter of the form url to make the form behave differently based on different OnLoadJS values in the parameter. For example, when rendering a new Task form for collection the feedback or issues submitted from customer, we want to simplify the Task form by only showing the subject and content. To achieve this, we passed OnLoadJS=OnlyShowContent() in the parameter of the query string so the form will call OnlyShowContent after loaded and hide all unwanted form fields. The whole url will look like this http://www.primeobjects.com/form.aspx?ename=Task&OnLoadJS=OnlyShowContent().

Note: The OnlyShowContent function need to be defined in a javascript file used by the Task entity.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Team Founder Server 2008 - TF53011 Not a licensed user

I have tried many ways to add a domain user into Team Foundation Server 2008 without any luck. I keep getting TF53011 error. It seems the security settings on TFS user interface are useless. The Valid User group does not help to make a user "VALID" or say "Licensed".

After Google search for 20 minutes, the command line below eventually did the trick. As I said before Team Foundation Server is garbage. Can you imagine that you have to achieve the most common operation by a command line?

TfsSecurity.exe /server:YourTFSServerName /g+ n:"[Server]\Team Foundation Licensed Users" n:"DomainName\UserName"

Note: You need to keep [Server] as it is without any change.