Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Visual Studio Team System: Files are not checked out automatically when edited

Published on June 30, 2010 in TFS, source control and visual studio. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

It happened to me after connection to TFS was dropped. and I was moved to offline work mode. Default VSTS settings say whenever you start editing a file it will be automatically checked out and it will appear on Pending Changes window. However, after those connection problems I no longer experienced that behavior.

Solution

First of all it’s worth checking VSTS Source Control related settings according to this article. In my case everything was fine there.

The problem on my side was somewhere else. After I had gone offline I had to go online again (what a surprise?!). I was expecting that to happen after reconnecting to TFS, but that is not entirely true. What I had to do as well was use ‘Go online’ button at the top of solution explorer. Once pressed it listed all the files I had modified while in offline mode and VSTS started working as before.

An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B (BadImageFormatException)

Published on June 29, 2010 in c# and visual studio. 10 Comments Tags: , .

Note: I assume you can rebuild the program you are having problems with because changes in its configuration settings are required.

If you are struggling with this problem you are probably running 64bit OS and executing 64bit exe that loads 32bit dll, or the other way – 32bit OS on which 32bit exe tries loading 64bit dll. For the sake of this post, let’s assume this is the former matter.

Solution

You need to assure that 32bit dll is loaded by the program with the same bittness, even if it’s running on 64bit platform.

In order to achieve that you need to change the configuration settings of the project whose outcome is that exe so that platform target is always x86, disregarding configuration platform. Let’s assume that program is written in C#.

Open project’s properties, go to Build tab and make change as below:

cs project settings 350x140 An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B (BadImageFormatException)