Yup! I’s unable to control my excitement when I downloaded and installed Window Phone 7 SDK and Developer Tools. In a hurry and skipping my dinner, I opened the first sample project – Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and hit Run (F5).

Bhoom! I’s damn surprised to see the error:

Zune software is not launched. Retry after making sure that Zune software is launched.

Because I haven’t written a single piece of code! Instead I run the project as it is!

A keen and close look pointed out the issue:

I have set my target to Windows Phone 7 Device instead of Windows Phone 7 Emulator. All you have to do is to change the target to Windows Phone 7 Emulator.

That’s it. Now hit F5 and Run.

I simply fall in love with Metro UI. What about you?

Start developing - http://create.msdn.com/en-US/

Oops…!!!

Last night, when i tried to call GridView.RenderControl(), I’s kicked with a runtime exception as below:

What surprised me more, that my GridView is inside the <form> tag, with runat=server attribute. I binged for a while and came to know that I’m not alone for this error. On deep searching, I find that Microsoft Connect has confirmed this as a bug. Which further take me to two other MSDN links:- Link1, Link2.

In the end, I got the fix.

All you’ve to do is to include the below empty-code in the code-behind

// [Code-Behind]

public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)

    {

        //Empty Method

    }

Thanks!

"Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

• Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client

These are the executable from SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack- a list of standalone packages, that provide additional value to SQL Server 2008.

That's all for now.

One problem while working with Threads in C# is that a background thread cannot ‘talk’ to the any visual elements that exists in the main GUI thread, because talking to objects across thread boundaries is forbidden. The reasons are obvious; because a thread has its own process space, the address of an object in one thread is not useful as an address in another thread. As a result, trying to access that object in another space results in a program crash with an unhandled exception. However, C# provides a mechanism for working with cross-thread process issue.

The BeginInvoke method of the MethodInvoker delegate is used within a thread prcoess to call another process method. These methods are thread-safe and can be used in a multi-threaded environment.

Last night, when a Thread tried to access the Text property of a Label control. I got the following error:

“Cross-Thread operation not valid: Control ‘label3’ accessed from a thread other than the thread that it was created on.”

Add the below quoted codes to perform a cross-thread operation.

   1: if (label3.InvokeRequired)

   2: {

   3:     label3.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate{label3.Text = "sample text";});

   4: }

Hope this helped.

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