I was trying to get SQL Server Management Studio installed when I encountered the error 29506. Looking up on the internet revealed that it’s related to admin privilege. When I view the properties of the installer, under the compatibility tab, “Run as administrator” option is disabled.
So instead, from start menu, I ran command prompt in administrator mode. Changed directory to the folder where the installer was. Ran the installer from command line and it all worked 🙂
For some reasons, many Bangla Lion users are randomly not being able to consume many static contents from Google+. They are also not being able to download any email attachments from Gmail. What’s happening? Google serves their content from googleusercontent.com. Gmail attachments are also served from a sub-domain of this domain. For some unknown reasons we can not access that domain sometimes, sometimes we can.
Just a few moments ago, when I complained to Bangla Lion customer care, the customer manager helped me fix the problem. What we did?
1) First we set no proxies. On my Firefox 5, I had proxies set to system proxies. Bangla Lion’s customer manager suggested that I should set no proxy or automatic detection for proxies. I changed it to no proxy. For this, I went to Firefox Menu > Options > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings (I am using FF5).
2) Then I went to “Network and Sharing Center” > “Change Adapter Settings”. I right clicked on my Bangla Lion connection (I am using the indoor device, so mine is a wired network) and selected “Properties”. In the “Networking” tab, I double clicked on the TCP/IPv4 entry. The dialog box I got, it let me define how my IP address and DNS addresses are obtained. I manually set the DNS Servers to: 4.2.2.8 & 4.2.2.2 .
The customer manager also gave me another pair of DNS in case I still have an issue: 4.2.2.5 & 8.8.8.8
This was supposedly a good sign of proper customer service, which I had read the other day on https://www.salesforce.com/products/guide/lead-gen/.
3) I cleared my browser’s cache and everything was okay. To test things, I have restarted my router several times to see what happens when I am assigned to different IP address. Everything looks fine.
So, the description I gave so far is very specific to Windows 7 and Firefox. A general instruction for any OS and any browser should be:
1) Make sure you’re not using any proxies.
2) Change your network’s DNS to: 4.2.2.8 & 4.2.2.2 or 4.2.2.5 & 8.8.8.8
3) Clear the cache and offline data.
I am satisfied with Bangla Lion’s customer care, at least they put some people who knows something. When GP started image optimization, it was a night mare. +1 to Bangla Lion for their informative customer care service.
It’s quite sad that Microsoft doesn’t ship a decent JSON parser with .NET, not even the latest .NET 4. If we look at the web, everyone uses JSON today. Without no out of the box support for JSON, I was having much troubles consuming different APIs Services. But just a few moments ago, I found the JSON.NET project on CodePlex. The library has cool Linq integration that makes JSON parsing easier.
For test purposes, I am outputting this JSON string on http://localhost/json.php :
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{"name":"masnun","email":["masnun@gmail.com","masnun@leevio.com"],"websites":{"home page":"http:\/\/masnun.com","blog":"http:\/\/masnun.me"}} |
After downloading the JSON.NET package, I added a reference to “Newtonsoft.Json.dll”. Then used the following code snippet (C#) to parse the data and print the values from a console app:
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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Net; using Newtonsoft.Json; using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; namespace JSONTest { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { WebClient c = new WebClient(); var data = c.DownloadString("http://localhost/json.php"); //Console.WriteLine(data); JObject o = JObject.Parse(data); Console.WriteLine("Name: "+o["name"]); Console.WriteLine("Email Address[1]: " + o["email"][0]); Console.WriteLine("Email Address[2]: " + o["email"][1]); Console.WriteLine("Website [home page]: " + o["websites"]["home page"]); Console.WriteLine("Website [blog]: " + o["websites"]["blog"]); Console.ReadLine(); } } } |