Monthly Archives: November 2013

Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) is not running. Retry after starting Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) from the services management console.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by LZH

If you encounter the below error message while developing app for Windows Phone. Error Message: “Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) is not running. Retry after starting Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) from the services management console.” … Continue reading →

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Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path ”, line 0, position 0.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by LZH

You may encounter “Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0." when trying to parse Json result that are downloaded from the WebClient method if the data is compressed in GZip. This is because WebClient … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio PasteJson.JsonPackage did not load correctly

Posted on November 10, 2013 by LZH

To resolve the above issue, head over to C:\Users\<your users name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache and delete all the files in the folder. Thereafter it should fix the problem. However at the moment the issue seem to be constantly occurring.

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ASP.NET Web API Multiple parameters binding

Posted on November 9, 2013 by LZH

The above is the default POST request which only accept one value and the value must be passed in from the body of the POST request as suggested from the parameter [FromBody]. In order to accept parameter directly from the … Continue reading →

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Creating ASP.NET Web API in Azure Project

Posted on November 9, 2013 by LZH

When porting ASP.NET Web API to Azure Project, you may encounter error 404 when trying to call the restful api. To solve this problem, add a Global Application Class (Global.asax) in your Azure Project. Lastly replace the Application_Start method in … Continue reading →

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Are you missing an assembly reference? Why, yes I am. So kind of you to ask.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by LZH

Are you missing an assembly reference? Why, yes I am. So kind of you to ask..

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Using Google API – URL shortener C#

Posted on November 4, 2013 by LZH

This post aim to walkthrough the steps required to set up Google URL Shortener in C# To get started, visit Google API Console Head over to Services and toggle URL Shortener API to ON. Once URL Shortner API is turned … Continue reading →

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Calculate distance between two Locations with Latitude and Longitude C#

Posted on November 4, 2013 by LZH

Given that you have two set of Latitude and Longitude values, how do you calculate the distance between them? For Windows Phone the below method is highly recommended since it used built-in library. However if you need the deploy the … Continue reading →

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