How to tell what is trying to load a specific assembly? - visual-studio

I have an MVC project that is failing once I deploy to Azure because it's trying to load an MVC4 assembly. I have upgraded the project to MVC5.
I am trying to find what has a dependency on the MVC4 dll.
How would I go about finding what is causing it to try and load the MVC4 dll?

Fusion logs are the way to go for something like this. Here's a handy little blog that sums up the registry changes you need to add to capture the log on your instance. Add this as part of a startup task. In this post he also gives the location to the log viewer (on your local dev machine) that you can use to view the log.

Is this the same issue that you asked a week ago and received an answer for? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19716911/web-role-fails-on-azure-after-upgrading-from-mvc4-to-mvc5/19733292#19733292
Rick's Fusion Logs option is also a great way to determine this.

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The Type or namespace name "WinContols" does not exist in the namespace 'Telerik'

I picked up an Desktop Application written in ASP .NET Web Forms that has been developer 5 years ago and the person is not around. I do need to make some changes but I am stuck and getting it running. (I am using VS17)
I google the issue but unfortunately there is so little out there about it and most of them are really old.
I am missing come Telerik References. To be exact here are list of them.
I have tried this one but was not successful. I followed the steps here but got stock at adding
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\Telerik UI for WinForms Q1 2014]#="C:\Program Files\Telerik\UI for WinForms\Q1 2014\bin\"
My Telerik looks to be installed at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Progress\Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX R1 2019
I do not have a bin folder.
And if I go to those bin folders I don't have anything like Telerik.WinControls.****
I am not sure if it is still supported or what I am doing wrong. I have got bunch of other errors but I have a feeling that they are all related to these missing namespaces.
Any help would be much apricated.
EDIT
Based on first comment, I was able to fix that issue. Thanks for that!
I have got this error now. Not quiet clear to me how to approach this. Any thoughts?

Project is missing in api (hence octo.exe can't find it)

We're using octo.exe to create releases. It starts suddenly giving error saying can't find project. I checked the api/projects and that's true, it is not in the returned json response. But when I look at the dashboard I can see the project. The only thing I did was cloning another project from this one earlier. The cloned project is working fine but not the original project.
It exists in dashboard (web gui) but not in api (hence octa.exe can't find project)
Looks like api is caching the projects. The new projects that I created via GUI not available in api.
Thanks,
I have had the same issue yesterday. It turns out to be something interesting. I believe that your project is still there properly set, but the total number of projects that you have become more than the listed ones in the API, and that's why the Octo.exe couldn't see it anymore.
I have explained here, how I managed to fix that issue quickly.
This is due to how pagination is implemented in Octopus (pretty poorly if you ask me). But you can override it. add this to the URL (at the end).
'?skip=0&take=2147483647'
alternatively, you can watch the json returned, if you find the links.Page.Next property you can use that link to get next page of the api response.

LicenseException for SectionReports, ActiveReports 7.0.6158.0

In an MVC app I am working on, we've recently began using ActiveReports 7 for our report-generating needs. On my local machine, everything works great. However, when we deploy to our Dev server for team-level testing, we get a LicenseException:
License for the SectionReport cannot be found.
We followed the user guide here to attempt different ways to resolve the problem.
What we have done:
Ensured that the licenses.licx file references the assemblies, and that the correct ActiveReports 7 assemblies are being built with and referenced by our project. As it stands, the licenses.licx file looks like this (sans the line-breaks):
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReport, GrapeCity.ActiveReports.v7, Version=7.0.6158.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc4967777c49a3ff
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Section.PdfExport, GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.v7, Version=7.0.6158.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc4967777c49a3ff
As this is a MVC web project, used the Assembly License Generator that comes with AR7 to create an [Assembly].Web.License.dll library, which we are building with the project in a /lib/ directory at the solution-level. This change had no effect on the License exception.
Used the Web Key Generator to create a key for the App.config file. This change had no effect on the License exception.
What we have not done:
Created some web form, and created an App_License.dll library that gets built with our project. The reason we did not do this is we are not using Web controls for our reports, we are not even using the GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Web assembly, and the error is not coming from any class in that library (which is logical, seeing how we're not using it.)
The only notable detail of all of this is that modifying the licenses.licx file had an early effect as we had a similar license exception on another component; ensuring that licenses.licx had the proper details ensured that that other component was no longer throwing LicenseExceptions in our app. I tentatively think from this that maybe my licenses.licx file still lacks something needed to make this app work.
The only thing remaining I can think to do is to recommend our lead license our server as a developer, but this possibility has already come up, and the direction we've been asked to take is to avoid that route if at all possible. I think it is possible because I have encountered similar posts involving people who followed the steps in the user guide above and presumably were able to solve the issue. Yet, for my team, these steps aren't working.
Question: What am I missing?
Using the Assembly License Generator as you have done should do the trick. Also, make sure that you are using the latest version of AR7 as according to this post on the ActiveReports 7 Support Forums, there was a fix done to some later version of ActiveReports 7 to correct some problem with licensing in this scenario. Specifically the steps given from the previously cited post said that following the below steps with the updated version corrected someone else's problem:
Run the program "ApplicationLicenseGenerator.exe" (as Administrator) from a location similar to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\ComponentOne\ActiveReports Developer 7\"ApplicationLicenseGenerator.exe"
Browse to the compiled ActiveReports DLL.
Press the "Generate" Button.
This generates a satellite assembly similar to yourclasslibraryname.dll.GrapeCity.Licenses.dll
Place the DLL in the bin folder of your web project and/or reference the generated DLL in your web service project.
Answer: for non-licensed users, [Assembly].GrapeCity.License.dll must be added to the web project as a reference!
Licenses.licx matters from a build perspective, though. But the license file was not missing anything.

Add Web Service Reference Weird Problem in WP7

I have a WP7 project in VS2010 pro/ultimate and I have added a web reference from another project on the same solution. The web service project is just a normal website project, I just created .ASMX file. I tested the service using web browser and it works fine.
The problem is, after I added this service as service reference, I cannot reference it in my WP7 project and I can't view it in Object Browser either as if it doesn't exist.
I use local URL like 'http://localhost:12345/WebService.asmx' when I added the service, VS can see all the methods and can add successfully. Very strange for me and I don't know how to solve this issue.
Anyone can give me any clue on this? Thanks very much.
I've had a similar issues before- on one machine, a restart was required, on another, I had to uninstall ALL of my SL stuff, then uninstall Vstudio, then reinstall and reapply any SL add-ons.
Then it worked fine.
Also had a friend with the same issue- uninstall all, then reinstall worked for him also.
I believe these were machines with pre-rtm SL and Phone bits on them.
I've had a similar problem. I created a WP7 project using VB.Net. I built a WCF Class web service, a client side proxy class, and then a WP7 application with the service reference. When I added the service reference, the code generating utility would not build the required Reference.svcmap file detail (it only created the header information). However the project would still compile, yet I couldn't reference the service in code as it didn't exist in the underlying files.
I tried recreating the WP7 project in C# and everything worked. My guess is that the VB implementation of WP7 might still have some issues, however that is a guess only. I'm keen to see if anyone else has had the same issue specific to the VB WP7 template or if it is something else.
I bumped into the same problem, but it was fixed after a reboot as suggested in this thread by dethSwatch.
I do remember that a silverlight SDK update was installed a bit earlier, maybe the reboot is required after the update?
I think this issue might be related to the January Update to the WP7 tools. I managed to fix this issue by installing the VS10-KB2486994-x86.exe fix found on the above page. That sorted the issue I had with generating a client side proxy for the WCF service I wanted to call. Hope this helps.

Running Umbraco source code in Windows 7 only produces login screen

I am trying to get started in development of my website and plugins using Umbraco. When I download the binaries from Codeplex, the installation and running of the website works fine. When I downloaded the source code, All I get is a login screen even when the web.config files are the same. Am I doing something wrong or is there something I missed.
The path I use to map IIS to is
branches\4.1.0\umbraco\presentation
You need to compile the source code to get it to work.
To be honest, you shouldn't need the full source unless you really want to start hacking around in the core (which may cause you problems with future updates) or you want to see how stuff works. The Umbraco framework is pretty extensible, I've not found too much so far that I couldn't do without having to touch the core source.
I had a similar issue when running the source and that was that the hashing of the admin password did not work. So i debugged it to see what value was expected and then changed it in the database.

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