Clickonce deployment results in "null reference" error in InitializeComponent(); - visual-studio-2010

Clickonce deployment of a Winforms application results in "null reference" error in InitializeComponent(); Running the executable directly does not produce the error.
Any ideas as to why that might happen?
edit:
Seems to be related to getting the value of Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)

This is not a ClickOnce problem per se, it's a problem with your application. If you track down the exe file under \apps\2.0\obfuscatedfoldername\obfuscatedfoldername\xxxx...tion... (where xxxx is the 1st four characters or your assembly name) and double-click on it, does the application run? Probably not.
Put some try/catch statements in with a messagebox showing the exception if it has one, to try to figure out exactly what line of code is causing your problem. It doesn't make sense that it would be Environment.GetFolderPath, unless you're doing something weird with it, so find the exact line causing the problem and post it back here.

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When only "All Exceptions" breakpoint is set, Xcode 7 always stop on app start

It's been bothering me since Xcode 6, that whenever I set 'All Exceptions' without any other breakpoints, Xcode would stop at start when I init a UILabel view wrapper in RootVC.
If I try to remove the causing line, another "random" line would trigger it again. Thoughts on what caused the exception?
This breakpoint comes from an exception that was thrown by TFileDescriptorContext. All Exceptions halts also on C++ exceptions.
It gives you a good indication where the problem comes from. Take a look if all fonts that are listed in Info.plist are part of your application bundle.
"Normally" you are not interested in C++ exceptions when you are in Objective-C, so feel free to ignore them.
Edit: This problem has been discussed several times here on SO. Updating when I can find the posts again which might give you even a deeper insight.

Unable to determine application identity call? How to track down?

I am making a windows phone 8 application and in the designer view in both blend and VS I get "Unable to determine application identity call" error as a dialog box.
From what I read on stack this is propably because of the Isolated Storage is getting run and the designer can't handle it.
I am wondering is there away I can get some line numbers or something where the errors are happening instead of having to manually go through the code?
By the time you see this message box it is already too late, the exception was caught and handled. You have to catch it when the exception is raised. Which is not so easy to do at design time.
One technique that's worth a shot is to use a debugger to debug Visual Studio itself. Start it again and use Tools + Attach to Process. Locate the first devenv.exe in the list of processes and select it. Set the Attach to: setting to "Managed (v4.5, v4.0)" and click OK. Let it trundle to find the PDBs (takes a while). Debug + Exceptions, tick the Thrown checkbox for CLR exceptions.
Switch back to the original instance of VS and do whatever you did before to trigger the error. The 2nd instance will break in when the exception is thrown. Which some luck you'll see your code on the Call Stack window. If the debugger doesn't break then repeat the exercise but attach to XDesProc.exe, the XAML designer. Good luck with it.
Isn't this
Unable to determine application identity of the caller?
or
Getting Unable to determine application identity of the caller Error
are the same topic????
Don't know, just asking...
Sorry for any inconvenience..
Just answered in my basic question.
I'm afraid, i don't know how to get exact string number, just keep in mind that Designer cant have an access to the IsolatedStorage and check all places where you're working with IsolatedStorage. Basically, what you need to do is to add to all constructors a lines
if (ViewModelBase.IsInDesignModeStatic)
return;
If you're working with MVVM Light, or
if (System.ComponentModel.DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool)
return;
which is pretty the same but without MVVM Light.
Also, i edited my answer there.

Windows Phone 7 Linenumbers in StackTraces?

I am developing a WP7 app.
The app has a pretty large XML Parsing method and a try/catch block around it. When an exception occurs I just get the causing method's name from the exception's stacktrace, but no line numbers.
So it is pretty annoying to debug in a 400+ LoC method.
My guess is that the pdb files are not deployed to the phone at all.
A workaround would be to split large methods into smaller ones and to use more and smaller try/catch blocks.
But is there any way to enable line numbers in Windows Phone 7 Exceptions?
First of all, a 400+ LoC method is a bad practice, I would definitely recommend to split it.
Little trick: if you're using the debugger, just configure it to break on any exception (in Visual Studio, press Control + Alt + e, and check the 'thrown' checkbox in front of "Common Language Runtime Exceptions". Then, when the exception is thrown, the debugger will automatically stop at the exception location.
Now to answer your question, if you don't have line numbers when compiling in debug mode, then there's probably no practical way to get them. You can try injecting the pdb in the xap file, but I don't think it's worth the trouble.

is the console output in XCode the equivalent of the error message window in Visual Studio?

The only error I ever get is SIGABRT in main. This is getting incredibly frustrating as I have to guess what line caused the error and why.
This is a far cry from visual studio's informative error messages. It's basically like sending off an entire novel to an editor and the only notes you get back are: "There is a problem somewhere in your book. There may be many or just one and they are either gramatical or to do with spelling."
I just don't know how anyone can work like this. What am I doing wrong? Surely I'm missing something essential.
Write some NSLog() into your code and you'll see it in the console. It's a great help to narrow down a crash.
if you have encountered memory problems (aka – your app crashes for no apparent reason because you attempted to use an object that you deallocated to soon) setting NSZombieEnabled = YES can help you diagnose the problem.
Normally, when your app crashes in this way and you look at the log it tells you nothing (thanks Apple!). However, if you select your executable (under Executables in Xcode), hit the info button (round blue thing at the top), select arguments and put this in the bottom screen NSZombieEnabled = YES the log will give you more information.
Now, if your app crashes the log will have an indication of the object you attempted to access that has already been deallocated. Not forget to turn it off before you deploy it – you don’t want a bunch of nszombies running around your clients phones…
http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/nszombie-and-xcode-oh-my/27/

Another knack on the "Dialogs must be user-initiated" Security Exception in Silverlight printing

I get the infamous "Dialogs must be user-initiated" Security Exception when I try to print some stuff in Silverlight. As you can see, the dialog is as user-initiated as can be:
John Papa couldn't help me much out neither, because I don't have any breakpoint set. Mr MSDN thinks it could also be that I'm just taking too long, but this is a demo application just as simple as can be.
Any ideas? I guess it's a Visual Studio quirk, maybe some extensions interfering, as things seems to work when I launch the application outside of it. I first thought maybe the Code Contracts are interfering with their IL weaving, but they are deactivated for this project.
Update: This is just a simple Silverlight application that runs locally from the file system. When I do "Start debugging", Visual Studio creates a hosting HTML file containing the Silverlight app in the Debug resp. Release folder of the project, launches the Internet Explorer with that HTML file and attaches the debugger to it.
Update 2: I also get the same error when I create a web project to host the Silverlight app and create a virtual directory for it on IIS.
I might also want to add that I don't have problems with printing in other Silverlight projects regardless of their hosting scenarios.
Update 3: I downloaded FireFox and it works, I don't get the error when I debug with it. So it seems to have to do with my IE8. I uploaded the solution:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10401470/Code/Demos/PrintingDemo.zip
I wonder if anyone can reproduce?
Anyone got an idea to which team I should file a bug report? Silverlight team? IE team? VS Debugger team?
I'm able to reproduce this. You have handled the Click twice, once in XAML another time in code. See your MainPage.xaml
<Button x:Name="PrintButton"
Content="Gotta print 'em!" Margin="8"
Click="PrintButton_Click" />
Don't feel bad about it. I did it last time through a misplaced Print inside a loop.
I've also experienced this strange behaviour. A standard button click event immediately invoking an OpenFileDialog. It would frequently generate the same error when being debugged but would eventually be coaxed in to working when the button is clicked several times.
However when built as a release (or perhaps simply by running the same Xap without a debugger attached to the browser) the problem would go away.
Try to remove
if(SightPaleceListBox.Items.Count > 0)
I had the same problem and found out that the reason was this following line:
cnvsMain.Children.Remove(PrintPagePlaceHolder);
cnvMain is on the page that the user pushed the Print button on (I was trying to remove it from that page in order to add it to the canvas that I was going to print).
My tip: try to comment rows one by one, until you find what row causes the problem. Than try to work around it.

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