Just delete the damn folder…

steven — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:53:05 +0000

So I run into a problem where there are folders on my “Storage” drive (like drive “D:” that is way bigger than my boot drive) that for some unknown friggin’ reason I am unable to delete, Windows 7 just gives me some run around and makes me want to take a sledgehammer to the damn thing.

So searching around and I found how to delete it; Change the owner the admin, change the acl’s, then use rmdir from cmd line.

Like so (to whack folder “D:\delete_damnit”);

Right-click on folder -> Properties -> Security Tab
Click on Advanced button -> Owner tab
Edit.. button
Select Administrators in ‘Change owner to’, check ‘replace owner on subcontainers and objects’
Open cmd.exe as administrator
Run ‘cacls D:\delete_damnit /T /e /g Administrators:f’
Run ‘rmdir /S D:delete_damnit’

Enjoy!

DotNetOpenAuth MVC Template + VS2010 + Win7 64 == crap;

steven — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:20:00 +0000

Well I was playing around with trying to setup a new MVC 2.0 site to use DotNetOpenAuth and I was thrilled to see that the site has a template you can download to make an example site. Excellent I thought!

But of course then I tried it; Using VS210 (10.0.30319.1 RTMRel) and ASP.NET MVC 2 I get this lovely error once I get past the setup.aspx page;

The view at '~/Views/Home/Index.aspx' must derive from ViewPage, ViewPage, ViewUserControl, or ViewUserControl.

Humm I figure its something I am doing so I go out and get my Google fu on, I find its a common problem with VS2010 + ASP.NET MVC + Win7 64 Bit. Ah Joy.

So download the VS2008 template, using VS2008, run through the setup.aspx and viola it works like a charm. No funky errors with the template and the redirect they are doing.

Thought I would share as I was kinda sad to see that a VS2010 bug with ASP.NET MVC persisted past QA. So sad.

Enjoy!

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Just delete the damn folder…

DotNetOpenAuth MVC Template + VS2010 + Win7 64 == crap;