VS 2005 SQL CE / xmta Error

John Huffman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:57:01 +0000

Here’s another in the world of strange VS.NET 2005 error messages. I have a project that I added some SQL CE code to and I get this message:

genasm.exe(1) : error There was an error finalizing type . Type ‘System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeException, System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3be235df1c8d2ad3, Retargetable=Yes’ was loaded in the ReflectionOnly context but the AssemblyBuilder was not created as AssemblyBuilderAccess.ReflectionOnly.

After a little searching I found a couple of articles that describe the same problem.

The second one describes a long workaround from Microsoft to get around the problem, and the other has lots more. But the both include the magic trick of changing the Build Action for xmta files to Content. Which is all it takes to get around this crazy problem.
Updated Info:

I now have run in to another version of this same problem. I have a Windows Form that contains a protected method containing a generic List as an out parameter.

protected virtual ResponseBase GetItems(out List lstItems) { lstItems = new List(); return ResponseBase.SuccessResponse; }

I receive the error if the method is public or protected, but not private and the parameter is a ref or out. My solution was to change it to return an array of ItemVOs instead. This is actually the scenerio described in the first article.

VS.NET 2005 – Designer Error Shows HTML Source

John Huffman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:54:28 +0000

Since upgrading to Internet Explorer 8.0, my Designer Error Messages have started to be displayed as the HTML source code, rather than as the web page itself.

For instance:

…</p></blockquote> <p>While possible, this clearly makes debugging these issues much more difficult. After some searching I found the magic answer <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/winformsdesigner/thread/5fb244e0-017f-4387-8567-ab134089bb81?prof=required&wa=wsignin1.0">here</a>.</p> <p>Press F5 to refresh the page, and voila it’s a web version of the error.</p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/70/"></a> </article> <article> <h1>Windows Vista takes 48,495 days to copy files</h1> <p>John Huffman — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:50:09 +0000</p> <p></p> <p>My wife was copying a bunch of pictures today when she got this message saying it would take 48,495 more days to finish copying her files. For some reason she didn’t have the patience to wait. 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Why anyone would want to do that, or would even care to read about a slacker trying to do it, is hard to imagine, but I found it a great read.</p> <p>Perhaps I found it interesting just because I wanted to understand why anyone would want to wash dishes (the Dirty Job’s slant), or perhaps because of my brief (two-day) stint as a plongeur, or a desire to travel the country. But most likely it’s my love of a real-world adventure told by a great story teller.</p> <p>This type of book often has the danger of the author who takes themselves far too serious, or on an ego trip. I mean who really cares about a dishwasher. But this is really a book about a lot more.</p> <p>There’s the cultural differences throughout the country, where it’s easy to get a dishing job, and where cultural prejudices precludes it. It shows you that dish washers are an important part of our world, and that despite their low-standing they still are needed, and that whether you’re on an oil-rig, dinner train, commune, jewish nurshing home, cannery, or Oktoberfest, there’s someone in the dish pit taking care of business. And of course, I found it amusing that if it weren’t for the cyclist unfriendly roads of Pittsburgh, he could be my neighbor.</p> <p>And finally there’s the philosophical perspective this book tries to provide towards the end. After ten years soaking suds, sleeping in a van, traveling the country, and bouncing between jobs, what else can you do with your life. Well, if your like Dishwasher Pete, you can become a pretty good writer.</p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/47/"></a> </article> <article> <h1>C# Web References and Shared Types</h1> <p>John Huffman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:55:56 +0000</p> <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>This post has been move to the <a href="http://www.steponesystems.com/blog/">StepOne Systems Mobile Technology Blog.</a></strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The new link is <a title="C# Web References and Shared Types" href="http://www.steponesystems.com/blog/?p=309" target="_self">C# Web References and Shared Types.</a></strong></p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/43/"></a> </article> <article> <h1>Verizon Online – Denial of Service</h1> <p>John Huffman — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:56:19 +0000</p> <p>Recently I thought I’d update my Linksys Router to a new Linksys router so I could have 802.11g in the house. Unfortunately this has turned in to a nightmare with my Verizon DSL connection. </p> <p>When I initially switched the boxes, I started to get the message:</p> <blockquote><p><strong> Verizon Online – Denial of Service</strong></p> <p><strong>Unable to Access the Verizon Online Network</strong></p> <p><strong></p> <table border="0" width="724" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" class="mainpos">You may be experiencing difficulty accessing the Verizon Online Network for the following reasons:</p> <ul> <li>Your Verizon Online account has been suspended due to a billing-related matter.<br /> Please <a href="http://noaccess.verizon.net/dos/flow.jx?stateID=start">login</a> to review your billing information.</li> <li>There may be some techincal difficulty related to your equipment or Verizon Online account.<br /> For help with technical issues, please contact Technical Support at 1-800-567-6789 for Residential or 1-888-649-9500 for Business.</li> </ul> <p>For further details, please <a href="http://noaccess.verizon.net/noaccess/details.html">click here</a>.</p> <p>If you continue to experience problems connecting to the Verizon Online Network, you may <a href="http://noaccess.verizon.net/noaccess/contact.html">contact us </a>to assist you in resolving the issue.</td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" class="mainrule"> </td> </tr> </table> <p></p> <table border="0" width="724" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" class="mainpos"> <p class="legal"><a href="http://noaccess.verizon.net/noaccess/contact.html">Contact Us</a> | <!-- <a href="#">Verizon Online Privacy Statement</a> | –>Copyright 2006 Verizon. All Rights Reserved</p> <p style="padding-top:5px;" class="legal">Use of Verizon Online Internet access services and Web sites are subject to user compliance with our Terms of Service.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p></strong></p></blockquote> <p>However, if I swapped back the original router, all was fine. So the first guess was that they had some kind of filter to prevent multiple devices on the same circuit. So I decided to leave the router disconnected overnight and try swapping it out. Then neither router would work, and the pain was just starting.</p> <p>Though the curious part of it, is that everything is correctly connected, I can ping websites, and doing everything except stuff that requires Port 80. </p> <h3>The Painful call to Verizon Support </h3> <p>Obviously, it was time to call Verizon where I got stuck with a Level 1 tech and their script who wanted me to do all of their un-related diagnostics to solve any general problem.</p> <ol> <li>Check that my account is not suspended. It isn’t, website also says this. </li> <li>Connect the DSL Router to another computer and try it. Of course this requires a complete network configuration of the laptop, but oh well.</li> <li>Reset the router, (down to the basement, back to the office), reset it wait longer (back down, back up)</li> <li>Reset the username and password, by the way that all resets the POP client password..</li> <li>Delete all of the Cookies, Files, and History…</li> <li>Hmm, you must need a new router, I’ll send you to DSL Billing to get one. <ul> <li>Me: Hey I don’t see why I should buy a new router because you’re blocking my traffic.</li> <li>Her: No, there’s a problem with the firmware and security is locked, we’ll get you a free replacement. I’ll connect DSL billing..</li> <li>Me: Er, ok…</li> </ul> </li> <li>Dropped out to the main menu, Find an operator since there is no good option, wait in the queue, ….</li> </ol> <p>Now I get a new DSL billing guy, I tell him my number, he looks at my record and tells me I need to <u><strong>buy</strong></u> a new router. I explained that my router is fine and they were causing the problem so they should provide one. After all it worked with the old Linksys box until I swapped them. But alas no, so I told him I’d think about canceling DSL, he said ok, and I hung up.</p> <p>So there’s two hours wasted.</p> <p>Now it gets a little stranger. I connect another Router I had from a previous fiasco, hook up the old router and it starts working. Seemed strange, but ok, I got off to work an hour late.</p> <p>Then my wife comes home and tries it out. She’s able to read email for a bit, then tries to reply to a message and it dies. Restarts IE, dies again.</p> <h3>Solution: Change the DNS Settings </h3> <p>So now it’s time to get serious and search the web which turned up a couple of articles pointing to problems with the DNS server settings. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread28879-2.html">http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread28879-2.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-49656.html">http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-49656.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-452659.html">http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-452659.html</a></li> </ul> <p>Which magically solved the problem!!!! Essentially the solution is to change the DNS servers to ones that work better, either OpenDNS or the new ones Verizon was sending in the PPPoe message.<br /> </p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/42/"></a> </article> <article> <h1>VS.NET 2005: “GenerateResource” task failed unexpectedly</h1> <p>John Huffman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:05:58 +0000</p> <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>This post has been move to the <a href="http://www.steponesystems.com/blog/">StepOne Systems Mobile Technology Blog</a>.</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong> The new link is <a title="Permanent Link to VS.NET 2005: “GenerateResource” task failed unexpectedly" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.steponesystems.com/blog/?p=307" target="_self">VS.NET 2005: “GenerateResource” task failed unexpectedly</a>.</strong></p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/mobilemusings.wordpress.com/41/"></a> </article> <article> <h1>SQL Mobile 2005 – Editing Table Data</h1> <p>John Huffman — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:21:14 +0000</p> <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>This post has been move to the <a href="http://www.steponesystems.com/blog/">StepOne Systems Mobile Technology Blog</a>.</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong> The new link is <a title="Permanent Link to SQL Mobile 2005 - 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