Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Windows Azure Dev Fabric: Keyset does not exist

If you see this error while dealing with X509 Certificates when your service is running on Windows Azure Dev Fabric:
Keyset does not exist

The fix is to grant Network Service account permissions on the corresponding certificate

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Visual Studio 2010 - The project type is not supported by this installation

If you see the below error while opening a project in Visual Studio:
...\xyz.csproj : error  : The project file '...\xyz.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation.

The fix is to follow the below steps:
  • Open the csproj file in notepad or xml editor
  • Look for the node <ProjectTypeGuids>{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
  • Do a bing search for the project type guids to find out the dependencies which need to be installed
  • Install the dependencies and you should be able to open the project

Monday, April 2, 2012

Windows Azure Portal - The Windows Live Network is unavailable

If you see the below error while trying to login to Windows Azure Portal:
The Windows Live Network is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:

This site may be experiencing a problem
The site may not be a member of the Windows Live Network
You can:

You can sign in or sign up at other sites on the Windows Live Network, or try again later at this site.

The fix is to change the Privacy Settings in the browser from High to Medium High