Joshua Mouch

Just an FYI, my quest to become #1 search result for the word tombstonable worked!  That was easy.

Tombstoneable & Tombstonable (which is the real spelling… hmmm) has almost no Google results!

Sooo…. here I come top position!  hahah…

In my previous post, I mentioned a reboot seemed to fix my network connection error when I tried to update.  However, the problem was actually that the path length to Eclipse was too long.  The folder I copied Eclipse to was this, which resulted in broken updates:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Eclipse-3.3-wpf

However, Eclipse Updates started working when I changed to folder name it to this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\E-3.3-wpf

Weird, huh!?

I am trying to use Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) from Vista x64.  Everything seems to work fine except for the Preferences dialog.  The General/Key tab is missing most of the GUI the first time I view it and is blank every other time.  This means that I couldn’t change any of my keybindings (key bindings).

I tried a million different things to get this to work.  Finally I tried a using a beta 3.3-wpf release of eclipse, which does render the preferences correctly!  Come to find out so does 3.4-wpf.  However, 3.4 without wpf does not render correctly.  So, something with the win32 graphics library is broken.  Eclipse 3.2 didn’t have any problems, so it’s something that was introduced with version 3.3.

However, when I tried to do an update from the newer versions, I got weird connection errors:

Network connection problems encountered during search.

Unable to access “http://sitename“

Error parsing site stream. [Premature end of file.]

Premature end of file.

But from my original 3.3 version, updates worked find.  In this case, a reboot seemed to have fixed something, but I don’t know why.

I was just browsing through my MSDN library, and came across several pieces of software that I have never used before.  However, even after reading the descriptions of the products, I still have no idea what they do.  It is sad when a marketing team can’t even explain what their own product does.  Here is an example.

Live Communications Server 2005 provides a standards-based platform, allowing developers the ability to presence-enable existing applications and create next-generation solutions with real-time capabilities.

Oh good.  It was horrible how I couldn’t build next-generation solutions before; thanks for allowing it now!  And I love getting capabilities in real-time!  Saves me the trouble of having to download them.

I received this error while trying to install the Smart Client Software Factory. The workarounds are:

1. Disable UAC (in my case) or else install using an administrator command prompt.
2. Close Visual Studio.

Apparently, the install messes with devenv.exe, which is my Visual Studio had to be closed.