"'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater." - Problem Fixed

I had this problem for about a week when trying to edit documents from Sharepoint 2007. Indeed, the problem became so frustrating that I needed to fix it. The error I was getting was:

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Windows Internet Explorer
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'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater.
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OK
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I came to this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/833714 and followed the instructions:

1. Via Add/Remove Programs ->Office 2003 -> Change dialog, I removed and readded the Windows SharePoint Services Support component as per Method 2 in the article above.




2. I tried to re-register the OWSUPP.DLL (with an uninstall and reinstall with regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\owssupp.dll") and just got an error:
   
   
   
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   RegSvr32
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   DllRegisterServer in OWSSUPP.DLL failed.
   Return code was: 0x80070716
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   OK
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3. I also tried to re-register the Office 2007 copy of the dll:
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OWSSUPP.DLL




4. Curious, I also rab dependency walker http://www.dependencywalker.com/. I dragged owssupp.dll into dependency walker and it indicated that I had Dlls missing as per the screenshot. I downloaded these from the web e.g. http://www.driverskit.net/dll/link/2263.html and moved these "missing" files to the office 11 directory - but the problem still ocurred.
   
   
   
   
   


5. I finally gave up and bit the bullet and did a repair install of Office 2003 via Add/Remove Programs - (which didn’t require the install media and took about 10 mins) – and it all started working.

Aparrently, you may get this problem if various Windows XP service packs are installed or you uninstall any Visual Studio VSTO tools.

Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_PrimaryKeyName'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TableName'

Today, one of my recently deployed apps was generating errors when attempting to insert records. The following errors started to appear in our Error logging table:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException. ...
Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_PrimaryKeyName'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TableName'.

Even when attempting to insert data directly into the table via SQL Management Studio, the same error would occur. The source of the issue was that the identity seed values were out of sync with the actual values in the table (a result of doing inserts with IDENTITY_INSERT ON). The simple fix was to change to output text mode in SQL management studio and run the T-SQL query:

SELECT 'DBCC CHECKIDENT (' + Table_Name + ')' FROM information_schema.tables WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'

Run the output of this query - this corrected all the 'duplicate key' issues I was having after the deploy of the database scripts.

DDK has registered for Microsoft Tech.Ed 2008 Australia... Thanks Oakton!

Oakton has recognized the hard work I've been doing at my current client - and has decided that myself and coworker Steven Krizanovic will be heading across to the other side of Darling Harbour to the geek extravaganza that is Tech.Ed 2008. The US edition of Tech.Ed has been divided into Developers and IT Professionals, but Australia keeps with the one stream format. Last time I went to Tech.Ed was in 1999 @ Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, so it's been a long time between drinks!

I'll be concentrating on the following tracks:

1. SOA and Business Processes (which focuses on BizTalk, WCF and WF)


2. Web (particularly Silverlight + WPF)


3. Developer Tools & Technologies


4. Architecture


5. DB and BI tracks

I'll keep you posted with the most valuable tidbits as the event unfolds...

SQL Reporting Services Error: Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)

I've run into this SQL Reporting Services 2005 exception a couple of times now - typically when I have reporting services execution accounts run as domain users that have passwords which expire. You will get this error if the current credentials supplied for the report (or if none supplied, the current SQL Reporting Services Execution Account) are incorrect. This happened on my local machine and the simple fix was to update the password on my execution account.



Corrected the account username/pass... fixed!