Quoting my comment from a discussion thread on the AMD Community website Actually the drivers back from 2015 that Microsoft serves for AMD laptop graphics adapters seem to make Windows 10 crawl (at everything, not just in graphics stuff). Installing the newest ones from AMD (in this case the beta driver) makes laptops work decently […]

Some time ago, at a WordPress 3.3 blog, a friend was getting a blank main area at the administration UI (just the menu was showing up there) when they visited the classic URL of the form http://somesite/wp-admin/. Here is a writeup of some notes I had kept while troubleshooting that issue and then upgrading to […]

At http://www.askvg.com/fix-windows-10-insider-preview-build-10240-not-appearing-on-windows-update/ it writes: NOTE: If you previously had a new Windows 10 build installed in your computer and then reverted back to an older build, you’ll lose access to the new build and it’ll no longer be offered as an upgrade option. Deleting the ...

One of our ClipFlair Studio users reported on having some issue trying to install Silverlight on MacOS-X, so I gathered some related info below:     First of all, at the Silverlight installation webpage, at the System Requirements tab, you can find the following requirements: Macintosh (Intel-based) Intel Core Duo 1.83-gigahertz (GHz) or ...

Copying from Microsoft Web Deploy readme: If you encounter any problems during installation, you can run appropriate command listed below for your version of Windows to create a log file that will contain information about the installation process: msiexec /L install.log /I <path_to_msi> You can analyze this log file after a failed ...

I just had some big trouble troubleshooting the Visual Studio / XAML compiler error message: The tag XXX does not exist in XML namespace ‘clr-namespace:YYY’ It turned out this occurred because I had a Silverlight library with Assembly name X and default namespace X (at properties pane), but was using it from a demo project [...]

If you get an error like: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2153 Category: InitializeError Message: Failed to load a platform extension. Possibly corrupt or invalid file: … when you try to launch your Silverlight application (especially if you have the project set to use an autogenerated test page), you should read: ...

Just came across http://wangmo.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/themesgenericxaml/ which gave me a hint on why a WPF control wasn’t getting instantiated correctly when loaded from an external assembly (dll): to load generic.xaml for WPF, at the start of Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs you need (note this isn’t used/needed in Silverlight): using System.Windows; ...