Accessing NuGet functionality from behind a corporate firewall - visual-studio-2010

When I right mouse click on the References folder in the Solution Explorer window and selecct "Add Package Reference Library", I get teh error
The package source named "NuGet official package source https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206669 is eiether invalid or not available and thus is unreachable"
When I use IE directly to access this URL, I am redirected to http://packages.nuget.org/v1/FeedService.svc/ and see an XML response.
I suspect that my company's security is preventing me from accessing this site. I'd like to request that they make an exception. What specifically should I request that would enable me to access it?
And similarly, I would like to access the Extnsion Manager functionality from within VS but I get a more vague "An error occured error" ..

This seems to be a known issue with NuGet. I've been getting the same error and I updated to the latest version of NuGet but still get the error when using the proxy, but everything works when the proxy is disabled. I'm not sure when they will have this resolved.

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IIS : Exception from HRESULT: 0xC00CEF03

I have my website hosted on IIS with window 2016 OS. When I am going to disable the Form Authentication under IIS, it is giving me the following error.
Form Authentication.
Exception from HRESULT: 0xC00CEF03
i had a similar issue but it occurred when i was trying to disable the 'Machine key' - 'automatically generate at runtime' and then Applying the same.
For your error, please verify if the authentication is enabled/disabled for Default Web-site. Change that setting and then try disabling you specific websites status. It should ideally work.
I've seen this error stem from three different controls on the authentication method:
If configuring the authentication method on an application, and the authentication method you're trying to disable is enabled on the containing site.
If configuring the authentication method on a site, and the authentication method you're trying to disable is enabled on the Default Web Site.
If configuring the authentication method that has been defined in a web.config file. You should adjust it in the config file.
0xC00CEF03 error code translates to WR_E_NSPREFIXWITHEMPTYNSURI which refers to “Writer: cannot use prefix with empty namespace URI” (Reference).
This error occurs when there is something wrong with the web.config file. It’s probably corrupted or there are incompatible tags and parameters. As a result of this corruption and incompatibility, IIS is not able to read this file. Therefore, it can’t make a change.
The issue mostly happens after migration because a piece of configuration that works in the older version of IIS (and .NET Framework) probably became unsupported in the newer version.
The shortest way of finding what part of the web.config is causing the issue is to remove sections one by one and test. High-level steps:
Remove a section from the bottom of the file (Let’s say you removed system.serviceModel section)
If the issue goes away, add the section back and start removing the subsections of it one by one. (For example, ws2007HttpBinding subsection in system.serviceModel section)
If the issue goes away again, bring the subsection back and go through each lines. Prefixes like wsid:, asm:, and trust: are the most common causes of this issue
Source: 0xC00CEF03 error (Cannot use prefix with empty namespace URI)

WCF not working when debugging in visual studio but works in IE

I have a WCF that is hosted in an ASP.NET application. Suddenly, the WCF service has stopped working when i debug it in visual studio 2010. When i try to access the service, it throws the below exception.
CommunicationException was unhandled by user code. The remote server returned an error: NotFound
I have WCF tracing enabled but no errors are being logged.
The strange bit is that if i deploy the code to my QA server and access the application, the service works fine, so the code looks like not the problem.
If i also get the source code currently running in production successfully & try debugging it in my dev environment, it fails with the same error i mention above.
Any one have an idea what could be messed up in my dev environment?. I have tried both IE, Firefox & Chrome & the results are the same.
I after a very long debugging involving deleting Bin & obj folders and lots of rebuilds, i finally got this WCF service working again.
First, i suspected the service could be corrupted somehow, so i tried to update the service reference in my silverlight application but was bumped with the following error.
There was an error downloading 'http://localhost/mySite/Webservice/GetData.svc'.
The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found.
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://localhost/mySite/Webservice/GetData.svc'.
The remote server returned an unexpected response: (405) Method Not Allowed.
The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed.
I then browsed to the physical folder path to confirm if really my .svc file was there and indeed as expected, the file was there.
Trying to Browse to the path http://localhost/mySite/Webservice/GetData.svc in my browser bumped me with another error below.
HTTP Error 404.7 - Not Found The request filtering module is
configured to deny the file extension.
Most likely causes: Request filtering is configured for the Web server
and the file extension for this request is explicitly denied.
This made me start thinking that suddenly, IIS 7.0 has decided to block access to my .svc files.
I then added fileExtension=".svc" mimeType="application/octet-stream" to IIS, restart IIS but got the same error.
I then read on some blog i cant remember about adding <add fileExtension=".svc" allowed="true" /> under <requestFiltering> tag in file applicationHost.config located at C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Config, still nothing changed. Tried adding <mimeMap fileExtension=".svc" mimeType="application/octet-stream" /> under serverSideInclude in the same file, again with no luck.
Tried this http://www.adamwlewis.com/articles/iis-7-not-serving-files-4047-error still with no luck.
The following 2 steps are i think what resolved the issue.
I added a mapping for the SVC extension to ASP.NET by running ServiceModelReg.exe -i from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation
Browsed to my .svc file in the browser and this time it looked like i had made some progress but still, i had one more error to overcome . The is bellow.
Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
I resolved the above error by registering the correct version of ASP.NET using the ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (aspnet_regiis.exe,) as described in the link below
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169179(v=nav.70).aspx
At this point my service was back to normal as it had always been. I still haven't figured out what messed up my development machine.

"MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER (0x8004011D)" error message. When i am trying to access an Exchange Server 2013 mailbox by using a MFCMAPI utility.

I have installed Exchange server version 2013. Then I tried to create and connect to the server using MFCMAPI tool manually. While login to the message store it throws the following error
"Error:
Code: MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER == 0x8004011D
Function CallOpenMsgStore( lpMAPISession, (ULONG_PTR)m_hWnd, lpEntryID, ulFlags, (LPMDB*)lppMAPIProp)
File MainDlg.cpp
Line 437 "
And i had gone through to the article given below and followed the instructions given in the same. But, now also i get the same "MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER == 0x8004011D"error as before.
link : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2013/05/21/how-to-mfcmapi-create-mapi-profile-exchange-2013.aspx
Please help me to resolve my problem.
Problem:
You will get this error message if the Outlook profile is in the Cache mode.
Solution:
On the client computer, open the Control Panel and click the Mail icon.
Open the <Profile>, click the email account and select the related <Account>.
Click Change.
Verify that the Use Cached Exchange Mode box is unchecked.
Exchange 2013 only allows ROH (RPC-over-HTTP) connections. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2014/01/16/create-outlook-profile-exchange-2013.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2014/01/17/how-create-outlook-profile-office-365.aspx for the steps on how to create ROH profiles.
I had a similar problem and found that the link on dave vespas blog is pointing to an old version of mapicdo.
Make sure you have the latest version of mapicdo & mfcmapi and try again.

Getting "Unable to connect to a repository" error in CodePlex with TortoiseSVN

I just created a project over at codeplex and tried committing the sourcecode (so my project can be available publicly).
TortoiseSVN just doesn't work with CodePlex anymore it seems. And codeplex doesn't let you change source uploading options without contacting them first.
The errors in get when I try to checkout are:
Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://onthefly.codeplex.com'
The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at
line 1: no element found (https://onthefly.svn.codeplex.com/svn)
and
OPTIONS of 'http://onthefly.codeplex.com': could not connect to server
I tried the repo-browser just now and it still won't work.
Here's a screenshot of one of the errors:
Why are these errors happening?
You're not using the correct URL for repo. The correct URL is:
https://<projectname>.svn.codeplex.com/svn
I've got it working. Follow instructions on this page if you're having these same issues.

500 error when integrating multiple apps in one code base

I'm trying to set up an MVC application that will service several facebook applications for various clients. With help from Prabir's blog post I was able to set this up with v5.2.1 and it is working well, with one exception.
At first, I had only set up two "clients", one called DemoStore and the first client, ClientA. The application determines what client content and facebook settings to use based on the url. example canvasUrl: http://my_domain.com/client_name/
This works for ClientA, but for some reason when I try any DemoStore routes I get a 500 error. The error page points to an issue with the web.config.
Config Error:
Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'add' with unique key attribute 'name' set to 'facebookredirect.axd'
I am able to add additional clients with no problem, and changing DemoStore to something like "demo" while using the same facebook application settings works fine also.
Working calls:
http:// localhost:2888/ClientA/
http:// localhost:2888/ClientB/
http:// localhost:2888/Demo/
Failing call:
http:// localhost:2888/DemoStore/
I was thinking this might be an MVC issue, but the Config Error points to the facebookredirect handler. Why would the SDK try to add this value to the config during runtime, and only for this specific client?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I managed to figure out what went wrong here. Silly mistake..
After I had set up the application routes to require the client_name I changed the Project Url in the project properties to point to demostore by default. When I hit ctrl+S a dialog popped up that I promptly entered through without reading.
When I changed the Project Url, IIS Express created a new virtual directory for the project. This was the source of my problem. Why? I'm not sure, but once I removed the second site from my applicationhost.config I was able to access the DemoStore routes.
Moral of the story: read the VS dialog messages!

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