Nice error message, but could you please tell me which content files are missing/corrupted or how to fix this problem?

To fix this problem, I’ve attached the initial contents of the Help Viewer folder to this post.

• HelpViewer20-VS2012.zip (Help Viewer 2.0; Visual Studio 2012)

• HelpViewer21-VS2013.zip (Help Viewer 2.1; Visual Studio 2013)

Just extract to zip file to the local help store path. The path can be found in the registry (value name LocationPath):

• Visual Studio 2012: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Help\v2.0\Catalogs\VisualStudio11

• Visual Studio 2013: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Help\v2.1\Catalogs\VisualStudio12

If you can’t find the registry keys here, try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Help\... (i.e. without the Wow6432Node).

In my opinion, refactoring is the way to keep a software project clean. So, it’s good to have tools that support the refactoring process.

ReSharper is such a tool. It provides refactoring capabilities for C#/Visual Studio.

Unfortunately, the renaming code in ReSharper currently (version 7.1.1) contains a bug. This bug may prevent ReSharper from renaming all occurrences of a certain symbol.

The following code exhibits this problem:

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using System;
 
public class SomeOtherClass {
  public string GetString(int col) {
    return null;
  }
}
 
public class MyClass {
  public void YouCantRenameMe() { }
 
  public void ThisFunctionBreaksTheRenaming() {
    // The following line breaks the renaming.
    SomeFunction((row) => row.GetString(0));
  }
 
  public void SomeFunction<T>(Func<SomeOtherClass, T> func) {
    YouCantRenameMe();
  }
}

If you try to rename the method YouCantRenameMe() (in line 10), ReSharper won’t rename the method call in line 18.

The problem is the code in method ThisFunctionBreaksTheRenaming() which somehow breaks the renaming process.

Update: This bug is not present in version 7.1. So, for now, I’ve downgraded to this version.

Although the Acronis Drive Monitor is a handy tool for keeping taps on your hard drives’ state, it also totally breaks USB 3.0 (at least on my Windows Server 2012).

Acronis Drive Monitor comes with a service called “Acronis Scheduler2 Service”. As long as this service runs, it somehow breaks access to my external USB 3.0 drives. If I try to copy files to my external drive, the progress will freeze after a minute or so (together with a explorer window trying to access the external drive).

Solution: Stop the service (USB drives will start working again immediately), or uninstall Acronis Drive Monitor completely.

Today’s bug is again sponsored by Mono for Android:

Random “The type or namespace name ‘XXX’ could not be found” errors when building

Mono for Android randomly produces “The type or namespace name ‘XXX’ could not be found” errors when building a solution. These errors don’t really exist and disappear after a rebuild.

Today’s bug is provided by Mono for Android:

NullReferenceException in AppDomain.UnhandledException handler