MIX08 Hands on Labs...

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... unfortunately come in the form of a program "SmartHOL Player". Why not just give us the word documents and leave it at that?

 

Alas, there's nothing "smart" about this hands-on-labs player. When started it throws an exception:

 

"String was not recognised as a valid date/time".

 

Stack trace below.

 

You can click "Continue" but then you get an installation list that shows no entries available to be installed.

 

And, no, I haven't tried changing my O.S. to US instead of UK - why should I have to?!

 

Stack Trace (in the highly unlikely event someone reading this is interested or can do something about the problem) is as follows:

 

 

************** Exception Text **************

System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

** at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)

** at System.DateTime.Parse(String s)

** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.LoadInfo(String xmlFileName, String location)

** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.LoadLabs()

** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.FormMain_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

** at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

 

************** Loaded Assemblies **************

mscorlib

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll

----------------------------------------

SmartHOL

*** Assembly Version: 1.0.8.0

*** Win32 Version: 1.0.8.0

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/SmartHOL%20Player/SmartHOL.exe

----------------------------------------

System.Windows.Forms

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

----------------------------------------

System

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Drawing

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Web.Services

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Services/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Xml

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Configuration

*** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

----------------------------------------

jpdixyje

*** Assembly Version: 1.0.8.0

*** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib

*** Assembly Version: 0.85.4.369

*** Win32 Version: 0.85.4.369

*** CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/SmartHOL%20Player/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.DLL

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************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.

For example:

 

***

 

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.

 

 

 

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