James Senior posted some excellent news for the Mesh-addicted Live Framework and thus Live Mesh developer. I will be giving this a try later tonight. Now, if we can get the CTP running on 7…
James.Random() : Running Mesh Beta Client at the same time as Live Framework CTP Client
Quick Update – I followed James’ instructions and I am up and running. Thanks!
OK – So the issues I mentioned in my earlier posts all seem to have been cleared up. The Insert Disk issue was resolved by putting a memory card in my memory card slot. I am happy to have it in there, doing the Ready Boost thing. System has been running great for a couple of days now. I have reinstalled the Windows Live stuff and am blogging this with Live Writer on my Windows 7 system. I also switched over to Kaspersky for AV, but still using the Windows Firewall. Overall, I am impressed.
Update: I forgot to mention that I have the LiveMesh Beta running again as well. No issues with install or sync so far.
So considering the issues I have already mentioned, I decided I should take some rash actions. I uninstalled Windows Live, Live Mesh, and AVG 7 Anti Virus. I then re-installed Windows 7 – essentially upgrading the upgrade.
During the install I got one of these errors, hitting try again seemed to work
There is no disk in the drive, please insert disk into drive
Deviceharddisk1DR1
Cancel | Try Again | Continue
Then the upgrade ran smoothly.
Once the system restarted, I got the same error related to two applications
So I am up and running – IE is happy again
Now it is time to load up the Windows Live apps again….
I uninstalled Windows Live Synch first, then rebooted
On startup I got the same disk not found error for moemonitor.exe
And the same send info dialog (two of them actually) for feed synchronizaiton.
Next step “repair” Live Mesh Beta
It asked me if I wanted to install updates – naturally I said yes 😉
After the update was finished, I got Microsoft Feed Synchronization has stopped working… windows is collecting info.. then the other dialog about send into – so I sent the info.
The action center /More info window popped up – but I got a “this program cannot find the webpage” error. View details says internet connection is lost. I fired up IE to test it and got a bunch of errors and lost Glass. So, going to uninstall Live Mesh now and reboot.
Reboot
Still getting Feed Synchronization errors
Also, I dug into Computer management | Disk management and found that I have an extra CD-ROM drive showing up – Drive E:. To make sure this one was bogus I popped a disc into the drive I do have (D) and low and behold, D had something in it. So, I am going to remove the drive letter (e) from that drive. I will shut down, pull out the removable CD/DVD drive that works (D) and put the second battery in the slot and start up – then I should see no CD/DVD drive… I would think
Reboot
msnmsgr.exe – No Disk
There is no disk in the drive, please insert disk into drive
Disk Management – still showing the phantom CD-ROM – no drive letter – no Media
Feed Synchronization errors also popping up – sending that data to Microsoft….
Time to uninstall Windows Live stuff – uninstalling the whole kit n kaboodle
Reboot
Still with the Feed Synchronization errors – time to look at the log files…
log files are no help
can;t run IE either –
Mesh doesn’t;t seem to be completely uninstalled – usersnyusernameappdatelocaltemplivemesh
has a bunch of stuff like moemonitor[0000].exe and some other files and logs.
I am going to try and reinstall mesh and see what happens, if I can get on the web 😉
Fired up Firefox
went to mesh.com
removed my machine (was showing it offline)
reinstalled Mesh and added my machine to the device ring
IE will still not run – time for another reboot
That’s it for now
Yesterday I decided it was time to get off the fence and go all in with my Asus R1F tablet. Previously I had be dual booting Vista Business Premium and 7 Ultimate. The Vista partition is a full blow development machine with all the trimmings – except the Live FX – Live Mesh CTP (the one with the SDK). Id does have the Windows Live Wave 3 stuff installed and it has the beta version of Live Mesh as well.
So I wiped out the Windows 7 partition, extended my boot partition to reclaim that space. I renamed the drive from “Windows Vista” to “7” and run the upgrade.
First problem was that I had Poweshell 1.0 installed and I had to uninstall it. I was notified of this pretty early in the process – a couple of minutes – so no problem. The issue was how to uninstall Powershell 1.0. You have to go to the Uninstall Program utility in Control Panel – but it isn’t;t listed as an app. It is an “update”, so you have to click “view installed updates” and uninstall it from there. OK, that wasn’t so bad.
From there the upgrade went pretty well. It seemed to take a couple of hours, but it was a crazy day and I didn’t;t pay too much attention to it. It didn’t;t ask that I pay too much attention to it, nice.
So now I start up and I start getting error. Dialog boxes popping up one after another
msnmsgr.exe – No Disk
There is no disk in the drive, please insert disk into drive
Deviceharddisk1DR1
Cancel | Try Again | Continue
Windows Feed Synchronization
Do you want to send more information about the problem?
then the path to a .hdmp file.
On the whole these are the apps that have complained so far:
I am going to uninstall all the Windows Live stuff and see if that helps.
See you on the other side,
When Microsoft announced that Live ID would become an OpenID provider, I wanted to know if this mean that I would be able to log into Windows Live with the OpenID I had established with JanRain (myOpenID). Angus Logan took some time to bring me up to speed on the providing party/relying party issues and pointed out that Microsoft has in fact worked as a relying party with 3 different OpenID providing parties in their HealthVault project. The supported providers are:
I happen to use myopenid, but every time I try to get started with it, I get an error
“We’re sorry. We couldn’t locate your OpenID due to a communications problem. Try again later.”
Now I haven;t begun to pester the nice folks at HealthVault or JanRain. Nor have I tried logging in with my trusty Live ID. I thought I would throw it out here to you all and see what you have to say.
There is more to this than the basic mechanics of the OpenID implementation – I would like to hear thoughts on the wider range of issues as well.
I am always looking for good illustrations of why things like LINQ to SQL , Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) are a great thing to get to know, well.
Here, Scott lays out a few options and shows us a peak at what Scott Hunter and his team are showing as the future.
Interested in hearing what other think about this. I have not looked deeply into RPX enough to have an opinion on this. But I think vendors playing Switzerland at different levels of complexity (RPX or Microsoft Geneva) is ultimately a good thing. What you really need is a lot of competition is this space.
Time to tweak my dev environment again – keep these new stuff coming guys. Maybe I can get this all up on Windows 7…
Overall, the experience I have been having with Windows 7 has been great.
Here are the current list of issues I am having that are stopping me from going “all in” on my tablet.
(FYI I am running an Asus R1F, Core 2 Duo T7200, 2GB RAM, 13.3 WXGA screen)
If I can get those issues sorted, I am going to dive in.