Most of time when we want to run Visual Studio 2010 as Administrator role, we can right click the Visual Studio short cut in start menu and choose “Run as administrator”; Sometimes if you forgot to choose “Run as administrator” and open a project which need administrator permission, you have to restart Visual Studio. So [Read More ...]
If you are using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008, you should know the UAC (User Account Control), this is one of significant differences between Windows XP and the newer Windows System. “User Account Control (UAC) determines the privileges of a user. If you are a member of the Built-in Administrators group, [Read More ...]
Jun 072011
There was a Show Desktop icon in Windows XP when you turn on the “quick launch” in taskbar. When you click Show Desktop icon, you can switch from desktop and your application quickly and conveniently. When you update to Windows 7, maybe you will be confused by lots of changings, for example: Where the Show [Read More ...]
Jun 012011
When you write web application using PHP or ASP.NET on local PC, maybe you have installed local web server so that you can debug on local machine. However, if you are using Windows 7, you might find localhost can not be opened in web browser or it is very slow to open. The first step [Read More ...]
May 202011
There are lots of software which we are running still need Windows XP Operating System. So how can you do if you only have Windows 7? It is a good news if your software can be installed on Windows 7 without any problem first. Maybe you can run it directly without any problem. But if [Read More ...]
In Windows 7 and Vista, when you run a software, you might need a permission. When we use Visual Studio 2010, there is no problem when you run Visual Studio 2010 itself, and write code, and debug, and run your application. However, if your application needs some permission, for example, your application need to “Run [Read More ...]
We have a Windows Forms solution which includes multiple sub projects, and since long time, we used Visual Studio 2005, and then 2008, now we are using Visual Studio 2010 to develop this solution. We never gotten this kind of compile error on Windows XP when we convert the solution from lower Visual Studio [Read More ...]
We had a post about “Install Windows 7 on Dell Studio 1535 laptop and Dual Boot with Vista”, after you followed the guide to install Windows 7 on your Dell Studio laptop, you can see all hardware drivers seems “no more error” because they are all on normal status in hardware device list. However, later [Read More ...]
We have a C# application which built in Windows XP using Visual Studio 2010, when we install this application to a 64-bit Windows 7 PC, we got the following error message in a popup windows: Retreving the COM class factory for component with CLSID{0E59F1D5-1FBE-11D0-8FF2-00A0D10038BC} failed due to the following error:80040154 Class not registered (Exception from [Read More ...]
If you install Visual Studio 2010, you might meet the trouble that it is freeze on installing .NET framework 4.0, no matter you want to install .NET 4.0 using standalone version later, you still can not install .NET 4.0 successfully. The solution is : use a Clean up tool first. The following are detail steps: [Read More ...]