Outlook Instant Search Encountered a Problem

The web application threw an error message and thought for sure it was fixed by in one of the Stored Procedures. So I searched email, but used the wrong search text. I searched for  =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or and this error message: "Instant Search encountered a problem while trying to display search results. Modifying your query may resolve this problem"

I still can't find the email. I must be remembering a different application error. Searching for an error message returned an error message. Very nice

Resources for Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010

Content index for Microsoft Test Manager:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/anutthara/archive/2010/02/09/resources-for-test-tools-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx

Content index for Coded UI Tests:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2010/02/11/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx

Content index for Web and Load Tests:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/edglas/archive/2007/12/17/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx

Coded UI Test Documentation

I was trying to find some documentation about the best way to use Coded UI tests and so far here is what I found.

These are some of the blog posts and discussions:

Content Index
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2010/02/11/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx

Coded UI test Extensibility
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gautamg/archive/2010/01/05/series-on-coded-ui-test-extensibility.aspx

Test Framework Design:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsautotest/thread/944b33b3-f650-4dd8-a035-c807cbb2aadf/

Multiple UI Maps
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398056%28v=VS.100%29.aspx

Error Running WebTest; Build Error = The "EntityDeploy" task could not be loaded from the assembly

Today I saw an error message trying to run a web test. I added some validation rules to a web test then tried running it. Also hovered over the Server Explorer tab at the same time.

I have reproduced this error; it happens if you click Run Test while hovering over Server Explorer at the same time. The error persists until you expand Server Explorer.

Error message:
The test could not be run because of the following exception: Assembly is still being loaded. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131016)

Build Error:
The "EntityDeploy" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll. Assembly is still being loaded. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131016) Confirm that the ,UsingTask> declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all of its dependencies are ready

STARWEST 2010

STARWEST virtual conference on software testing

Uninstall errors

I am testing an application and was unable to uninstall. I was getting these errors:

1. Error 1001. The savedState dictionary contains inconsistent data and might have been corrupted.
2. Error 1001. An exception occurred while uninstalling. This exception will be ignored and the uninstall will continue. However, the application might not be fully uninstalled after the uninstall is complete. --> The specified service does not exist as an installed service

Kind of a long and boring story, but writing it down for future reference. I test the msi's on a Virtual Machine with SQL Server and IIS installed and undo disks enabled, so I can roll back after installing software.

The other day I made copies of this Virtual PC and installed 3 different versions of the software. Later on I found out I could not start more than one of the Virtual PCs at the same time because they all used the same machine name and MAC address.

So then I renamed the computer, reassigned the MAC address, and renamed the SQL server in 3 of the Virtual PCs. Now I have 4 Virtual PC's: one with the OS, SQL Server, and IIS and 3 more with different versions of the application.

The application would not uninstall on one of the renamed machines, so first I thought it was storing the PC name someplace in the registry. But then I remembered I tried running Repair from Add/Remove Programs before I tried uninstalling. So I tried to reproduce the error on the Virtual PC that was not renamed. It was Repair that caused Error 1001 on uninstall.

So it's best to remember exactly what you did, then verify the error can be reproduced. I really thought that bug had something to do with changing the machine name.

foreign key constraint violation

A foreign key constraint violation can happen if you delete a row that is referenced in another table. When the constraint is violated the error message in SQL Server is "INSERT statement conflicted with COLUMN FOREIGN KEY constraint".

table named Person with an identity column PersonID
table named PersonPhones references Person.PersonID
the constraint is on the Person table

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Person]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_PersonID] FOREIGN KEY([PersonID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[PersonPhones] ([PersonID])

The row cannot be deleted from Person if the PersonID exists in PersonPhones. The concept is the same in any RDBMS. The constraint could also be set up to automatically update and delete rows from the child table. It would look like this:

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Person]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_PersonID] FOREIGN KEY([PersonID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[PersonPhones] ([PersonID])
ON UPDATE CASCADE
ON DELETE CASCADE

It's just something the program should check. If you add a new person all fields should contain a value before you can say CRUD was successful. (CRUD=Create, Read, Update, Delete) If nothing else the user should be given a more friendly error message.