Sunday June 19, 2011

Simple Mini Profiler Glimpse plugin

by climens

I recently published on Github a simple small project (miniprofiler-glimpse-plugin) to integrate the results collected by the excellent MVC Mini Profiler created by the people at Stackoverflow with Glimpse, the Firebug for ASP.NET and MVC applications.

Creating Glimpse plugins is really easy (just implement IGlimpsePlugin and decorate it with GlimpsePluginAttribute), implement the methods and reference the plug-in assembly in the project where you are using Glimpse. MEF will do the gluing and the JSON.NET will do its best to deserialize the results in a human readable way.

To use this plug-in, just compile it and reference the assembly in your Glimpse-enabled project. I you have questions, suggestions or bug reports, you can use Github’s own issue reporting system, drop me a line o fork the project and make your improvements.

So, I hope you like it.

Link: miniprofiler-glimpse-plugin [github.org]

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Friday January 14, 2011

How msiinv saved my day

by climens

In my previous post I reported my problems installing MVC3 in my machine. That led me to further investigation as that worked perfectly in my co-workers’ machines.

I tried to repair Visual Studio 2010 and told me that it had troubles with vs_setup.msi… strange. Looking around I found a post that led me to an explanation of the msiinv.exe tool.

It took me a while to get the tool as the author’s site is broken, but Stackoverflow came on rescue.

Then, I ran the tool:

msiinv -p > msiinv.txt

Then opened the file and… surprise!

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ESN
    Product code:    {725041D1-9F45-30D3-A78E-DF08C4E1A297}
    Product state:    (1) The product is advertised, but not installed.
    Package code:    {9E58363D-E4A9-49D3-82B7-42584AFCA9E7}
    AssignmentType:    1
    Language:    3082
        Package:    vs_setup.msi
    0 patch packages.

Strange. I tried to fix it with MSI:

msiexec /f {725041D1-9F45-30D3-A78E-DF08C4E1A297}

It asked me for the vs_setup.msi, it’s in the root of the Visual Studio 2010 DVD in case it’s not found automatically. Magically it worked and now it’s installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ESN
    Product code:    {725041D1-9F45-30D3-A78E-DF08C4E1A297}
    Product state:    (5) Installed.
    Package code:    {9E58363D-E4A9-49D3-82B7-42584AFCA9E7}
    Version:    10.0.30319
    AssignmentType:    1
    Publisher:    Microsoft Corporation
    Language:    3082
       Installed from: D:\VS2010\
    Package:    vs_setup.msi
    Help link:    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=133405
    Local package:    C:\Windows\Installer\3f3bc84.msi
    Install date:    2011\01\14
    0 patch packages.

Great! Now the ASP.NET MVC3 RTM setup package worked like a charm.

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Wednesday January 12, 2011

Install ASP.NET MVC 3 Manually

by climens

Update 14-jan-2011: I found the root solution to all my problems with msiinv, check my post on the subject.

I don’t know exactly why but I can’t install the MVC 3 package provided by Web Platform Installer nor the standalone one, so I uncompressed it and tried to figure out how to install it manually.

The problem I have is with vs10-kb2465236-x86.exe that gives me a “failed with 0x8007066a” error. It seems to be for enabling Razor syntax but the prerequisites are Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate ENU. I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional ESN and that may be the reason or may not.

Anyway, I found the way to install the package manually, although the Razor Intellisense stuff is not available in my setup.

First you have to uncompress the AspNetMVC3Setup.exe into a folder and then install the following files (I got the sequence from the parameterinfo.xml file, which describes the installation process):

  • VS10-KB2465236-x86.exe (it fails in my case, I don’t install it)
  • AspNetWebPages.msi – ASP.NET Web Pages
  • AspNetWebPagesVS2010Tools.msi – ASP.NET Web Pages Visual Studio 2010 Tools
  • AspNetMVC3.msi – ASP.NET MVC 3 Runtime
  • AspNetMVC3VS2010Tools.msi – ASP.NET MVC 3 Visual Studio 2010 Tools
  • NuGet.msi – NuGet

And that’s all. In case you have Web Developer Express instead of full Visual Studio, you have ton install the tools specifically for that edition, AspNetWebPagesVWD2010Tools.msi instead of AspNetWebPagesVS2010Tools.msi and AspNetMVC3VWD2010Tools.msi instead of AspNetMVC3VS2010Tools.msi.

Good luck!

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