Add-in error...

[Doyen Blair]

All,

After installing the add in I get the following error:

The Add-in 'WebWidgetry DataServices' failed to load or cause an
exception.
Would you like to remove this Add-in?

If you choose yes.........

Error Message: Catastrophic failure
Error number: 8000ffff

I am using VS 2008 with SP1.

Thanks for any help....

[Ryan Gahl]

Yikes. That's not good. Could you do me a favor? Uninstall WW.DataServices (Start > Nth Penguin > Uninstall WW.DataServices).

Then please try this link (will expire after 3 download attempts): http://www.nthpenguin.com/Download.aspx?customer=084c7873-baa2-422c-bd35-a81344d0a06f

Re-install using that package and let me know if you have any better luck.

I've seen this issue internally, but really thought we had it fixed (it only happens on some machines for some reason).

And I apologize for the delay in replying. We're coming off of a pretty crazy week here... we'll try our best going forward to reply to questions asap, we just hope you bear with us :)

-Ryan Gahl

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[Doyen Blair]

I will try that and update when done.

Thanks for the help.

On Oct 10, 6:10 pm, "Ryan Gahl" <ryan.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yikes. That's not good. Could you do me a favor? Uninstall WW.DataServices
> (Start > Nth Penguin > Uninstall WW.DataServices).
>

> Then please try this link (will expire after 3 download attempts):http://www.nthpenguin.com/Download.aspx?customer=084c7873-baa2-422c-b...

>
> Re-install using that package and let me know if you have any better luck.
>
> I've seen this issue internally, but really thought we had it fixed (it only
> happens on some machines for some reason).
>
> And I apologize for the delay in replying. We're coming off of a pretty
> crazy week here... we'll try our best going forward to reply to questions
> asap, we just hope you bear with us :)
>
> -Ryan Gahl
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Doyen Blair <doyenbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
>
> > After installing the add in I get the following error:
>
> > The Add-in 'WebWidgetry DataServices' failed to load or cause an
> > exception.
> > Would you like to remove this Add-in?
>
> > If you choose yes.........
>
> > Error Message: Catastrophic failure
> > Error number: 8000ffff
>
> > I am using VS 2008 with SP1.
>
> > Thanks for any help....
>
> --
> Ryan Gahl
> Manager, Senior Software Engineer

> Nth Penguin, LLChttp://www.nthpenguin.com

> --
> WebWidgetry.com / MashupStudio.com
> Future Home of the World's First Complete Web Platform
> --
> Inquire: 1-920-574-2218
> Blog:http://www.someElement.com

> LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangahl- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Doyen Blair]

Well,

It wouldn't let me download it, says "The key you have specified has
already been used. Please contact sa...@nthpenguin.com if you would
like assistance."

I must have done something wrong. Could you let me try it one more
time??

Thanks,

Doyen

On Oct 10, 6:10 pm, "Ryan Gahl" <ryan.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yikes. That's not good. Could you do me a favor? Uninstall WW.DataServices
> (Start > Nth Penguin > Uninstall WW.DataServices).
>

> Then please try this link (will expire after 3 download attempts):http://www.nthpenguin.com/Download.aspx?customer=084c7873-baa2-422c-b...

>
> Re-install using that package and let me know if you have any better luck.
>
> I've seen this issue internally, but really thought we had it fixed (it only
> happens on some machines for some reason).
>
> And I apologize for the delay in replying. We're coming off of a pretty
> crazy week here... we'll try our best going forward to reply to questions
> asap, we just hope you bear with us :)
>
> -Ryan Gahl
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Doyen Blair <doyenbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
>
> > After installing the add in I get the following error:
>
> > The Add-in 'WebWidgetry DataServices' failed to load or cause an
> > exception.
> > Would you like to remove this Add-in?
>
> > If you choose yes.........
>
> > Error Message: Catastrophic failure
> > Error number: 8000ffff
>
> > I am using VS 2008 with SP1.
>
> > Thanks for any help....
>
> --
> Ryan Gahl
> Manager, Senior Software Engineer

> Nth Penguin, LLChttp://www.nthpenguin.com

> --
> WebWidgetry.com / MashupStudio.com
> Future Home of the World's First Complete Web Platform
> --
> Inquire: 1-920-574-2218
> Blog:http://www.someElement.com

[Doyen Blair]

Guys,

Thanks for the email. I completed the download, but I still get the
same error. Any other suggestions??

Thanks.

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[Kevin Sehl]

Ryan,

I rebuilt the site in 2.0 and it now produces a DLL like I would expect. :)
I will do further testing, but that is a great sign. I am perplexed, in
that setting a site to 3.5 shouldn’t really matter, and I am puzzled as to
why it would.

Kevin

[Ryan Gahl]

Hmm. No, unfortunately I don't have any ideas off the top my head as what might be the cause (can't repeat it here with the current installer).

OK, so as annoying as this request is, do you have access to another machine that has VS on it, so that we can see if you can get it up and running and then try to compare differences in the environments?

[Ryan Gahl]

Kevin, that's good news!

Also, sorry but can we try not to interject into other people's threads?

I just want to keep this support group a bit organized, as well as not step on people's toes :)

Thanks!

-Ryan

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Kevin Sehl <kevin...@metadatastorage.com> wrote:

Ryan,

I rebuilt the site in 2.0 and it now produces a DLL like I would expect.  :)
I will do further testing, but that is a great sign.  I am perplexed, in
that setting a site to 3.5 shouldn't really matter, and I am puzzled as to
why it would.

Kevin

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Subject: [WebWidgetry] Re: Add-in error...

[Doyen Blair]

I will have to give a try later this week on my machine at home and
see if it works.

Do you think there could be something in the registry that needs to be
deleted?

What are the registry keys that the addin uses??

Thanks.

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> WebWidgetry.com / MashupStudio.com
> Future Home of the World's First Complete Web Platform
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[Ryan Gahl]

The plugin doesn't actually use any registry keys, so that's not it. Give that other machine a try and let me know how that goes. We'll try to reproduce the issue on our end as well.

[Doyen Blair]

Well, still same issue.

Here is what I did. I installed it on another machine and it worked
fine at first.

It added the window to visual studio. I docked the window and turned
off autohide. I then closed the window by clicking the X on the
window. After that I get the catastrophic error again.

One more thing. I can do this in VS2005 and I never get the error.

Just thought I would report back. Sorry it took so long.

Doyen

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[Ryan Gahl]

No problem on the timing, Doyen. I'm sorry to hear about that. We will put this issue as a high priority in our bug database.

For now, perhaps you can try to use the new version (just put up on the site last night). Hopefully you'll have better results...

[Doyen Blair]

Okay. Now both VS2005 and VS2008 are throwing the same error.

On a good note, it was a nice tool when it worked.

Doyen

[Ryan Gahl]

OK... let's try something else Doyen. First of all, make sure you have installed the latest version (from our website)

• Right click on your Visual Studio shortcut (and if you don't launch it from a shortcut, let's create one)... and click "Properties".
• At the end of the "Target" value, enter "/resetaddin WWPlugin.Connect"
  
• Click "OK" - and now run Visual Studio... see if WW.DataServices behaves better now

[Doyen Blair]

Ryan,

Ok... Did that and now i get "The following files were specified on
the command line: /resetaddin WWPlugin.Connect These files could not
be found and will not be loaded.

Any ideas?

Sorry for all the trouble.

Doyen

On Oct 21, 2:07 pm, "Ryan Gahl" <ryan.g...@nthpenguin.com> wrote:
> OK... let's try something else Doyen. First of all, make sure you have
> installed the latest version (from our website)
>

>    - Right click on your Visual Studio shortcut (and if you don't launch it

>    from a shortcut, let's create one)... and click "Properties".

>    - At the end of the "Target" value, enter "/resetaddin WWPlugin.Connect"
>    - Click "OK" - and now run Visual Studio... see if WW.DataServices

[Ryan Gahl]

Not a problem at all Doyen.

So your "Target" property in the shortcut should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetaddin WWPlugin.Connect

Sorry, I should have pasted that in my original post... but notice no quotes around the resetadding stuff (sorry, I only added the quotes in mine to separate it from the rest of my text... I shouldn't have done that)

[Doyen Blair]

Ryan,

I should have known that. Sorry for the ignorance.

[Ryan Gahl]

No apologies man! If anything, we apologize for the beta state of all this and the fact that there are even these hurdles that you have to go through right now :)

[Doyen Blair]

Okay. Now some progress....

I can now use the Data Services, but I still get the error on the
interface.

[Ryan Gahl]

Alright, now try the same thing for interface... launch your VS shortcut with the following target:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetaddin WWInterfacePlugin.Connect

[Doyen Blair]

Ryan,

After reading another post,
http://groups.google.com/group/webwidgetry-users/browse_thread/thread/57521776e6062b53?hl=en#,
I tried what was suggested.

Actually, I uninstalled both the Data and Interface and the installed
them again.

I moved them from my network drive and everything is working the way
it should be.

Hope that helps you solve some more issues!

Doyen

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[Ryan Gahl]

Oh great!

I'm glad you were finally able to fix things up, but sorry for the hoops you had to jump through... let us know what you think about these tools.

-Ryan

[Doyen Blair]

Ryan,

Our 'My Documents' folder is on a network drive. Is there anyway to
install the products on our hard drive? I didn't see an option to
browse for installation site when I do the install.

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[Ryan Gahl]

Not in this version (this is one of the shortcomings being worked on for an upcoming release)... As of now if you want to play with the tools you'll have to do it on a machine that has My Documents as a local folder.

Sorry!

[Doyen Blair]

Okay.

That is the only issue I have right now. When I try to run it, it
says it cannot run on network share.

I will have to wait to try it at my house then.

Thanks again for all your help.