Archive for February, 2011

Windows Phone 7 Version Information

1 year ago
by Rob in

I was working with the updated version of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) emulator and was curious to find out what software versions were running on it.  Here is the output I got:

WP7 Version Information

For those of you who search for this kind of information, the plain text:

OS Platform: WinCE
OS Version: 7.0.7389
Silverlight Version: 3.7.10302.0

And here is the code used to generate that dialog box:

MessageBox.Show(
	"OS Platform: " + Environment.OSVersion.Platform + Environment.NewLine +
	"OS Version: " + Environment.OSVersion.Version + Environment.NewLine +
	"Silverlight Version: " + Environment.Version);

Note that when I ran this on the phone itself (without the update), it reported the following:

OS Platform: WinCE
OS Version: 7.0.7004
Silverlight Version: 3.7.10218.0

If Windows Azure Cmdlets v1.3 Won’t Install

1 year ago
by Rob in

I downloaded the latest Windows Azure Cmdlets to manage my cloud storage at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/azurecmdlets.  However, it could find my installed Azure SDK v1.3.

If running the “C:\WASMCmdlets\startHere.cmd” fails to find the “Windows Azure Software Development Kit 1.3″ on the “Detecting Required Software” screen, it is because it is looking for version 1.3.11122.0038 of the SDK. However, my installed version is 1.3.20121.1237. So, I opened the “C:\WASMCmdlets\setup\scripts\dependencies\check\CheckAzureSDK.ps1″ file and changed the two “1.3.11122.0038″ values to “1.3.20121.1237″ and re-ran startHere.cmd.

To find out what version of the Azure SDK you have installed, look in your registry at “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows Azure SDK\DisplayVersion”.

Note: After writing this, I discovered that Nick Harris had also posted a solution on his blog: http://www.nickharris.net/2011/02/windows-azure-service-management-cmdlets-and-azure-sdk-refresh-feb

When Microsoft Word Won’t Start

1 year ago
by Rob in

If you try to run Microsoft Word and it crashes before it even opens, look for a normal.dot or normal.dotx file in your user profile and rename it to normal.dotm.old.  Then try restarting Word.

On Windows XP this file can usually be found in:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

On Windows Vista and Windows 7 this file can usually be found in:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

I’m amazed at how often this fixes the problem.

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