Where can I find ‘winmm.lib’ (I’m using Visual Studio 2012)
winmm.lib isn’t part of the DirectX SDK but is part of the Windows SDK. Latest Windows SDK versions were also heavily reorganized but it includes the library you’re looking for.
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How do I open a Visual Studio project in design view?
You can double click directly on the .cs file representing your form in the Solution Explorer : This will open Form1.cs [Design], which contains the drag&drop controls. If you are directly in the code behind (The file named Form1.cs, without “[Design]”), you can press Shift + F7 (or only F7 depending on the project type) instead to open it. From the design view, you can switch back … Read more
The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string Entity Framework
In my case, it was my SQL Server instance that was not running. I simply started the service and everything worked fine. Hope this helps someone down the road.
Unrecognized database format’C:\…..\Employees.accdb for Microsoft Access Database File?
Your computer is missing Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 You can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255
MSVCP120d.dll missing
From the comments, the problem was caused by using dlls that were built with Visual Studio 2013 in a project compiled with Visual Studio 2012. The reason for this was a third party library named the folders containing the dlls vc11, vc12. One has to be careful with any system that uses the compiler version … Read more
Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component VS2012 when debugging
I removed the csproj.user files and it worked for me. In some other cases, to fix this error, I go to Web tab in the project properties and check “Use Visual Studio Development Server” and “Auto-assign Port”. After that I need to rebuild the project and restart VS
The CXX compiler identification is unknown
We are having trouble compiling a project using CMake (v2.8.12) under Windows 7 64Bit using Visual Studio 2012. CMake gives us the following errors. We already tried starting Cmake from the Visual Studio Command Line using admin rights. There seems to have been a similar bug in CMake 2.8.11: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14440
Could not load file or assembly Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040
Finally found the answer!! Go to References –> right cilck on dll file that causing the problem –> select the properties –> check the version –> match the version in properties to web config
Error ‘LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt’ after installing Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview
This MSDN thread explains how to fix it. To summarize: Either disable incremental linking, by going to Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker (General) -> Enable Incremental Linking -> “No (/INCREMENTAL:NO)” or install VS2010 SP1. Edits (@CraigRinger): Note that installing VS 2010 SP1 will remove the 64-bit compilers. You need to install the VS … Read more
Valgrind: invalid read of size 4 -> sigsegv, works fine without valgrind and in visual studio
I’ll explain the first error to you. At line 331, you’re probably reading an (unsigned) int, in a part of the memory you haven’t allocated for your own program. This part gives more information about the part of memory you tried to read. It says you’ve already used the memory, but reallox freed it. That … Read more