TELUS HTC One Android Jelly Bean 4.3 Update Problems

If you're having trouble getting the new HTC One Android Jelly Bean 4.3 to work (it gets to about 20% and then restarts repeatedly), I discovered a problem with the updater.  It won't work if you have GO Launcher (or any launcher that matter) aside from HTC Sense as your default launcher.

So... TURN OFF the GO Launcher or whatever one you're using.

Here's how to turn off GO Launcher:

From your desktop click on the "..." button, and go to Preferences, then turn off as the default launcher, and EXIT the app.

Now it'll work just fine.

Trouble with OUYA Drivers in Windows 7

I was having all sorts of problems with the OUYA and OUYA Console drivers in windows, and I wasn't using ADB because I'm working with GameMaker Studio.

Timothy Graupmann's tutorial on how to get things working worked for me.  In my case, I had to install the SDK not the ADB, and so it's important to set the PATH to point to the tools and platform-tools folders after install, but once this is done, everything else works if you follow his tutorial step by step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=454JFvFTxww

Solving the "xinput1_3.dll not found" problem

If you get the error "xinput1_3.dll not found", whether you're using GameMaker Studio or any other application, the answer is simple, you need to fix your DirectX install.  The link below works great.  I had this issue and after running the following (it's a simple install) things worked great for me.

In my case, I couldn't get GamePad support in GameMaker Studio, I was getting the error message "xinput1_3.dll not found. Gamepad support disabled", so that's what I did to fix it.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35

Changing the value of the IDENTITY column's seed in SQL Server using TSQL

The following TSQL statement will modify the employees table and set the LAST used seed value for the identity column on the table to 99. The result, the next insert to the employees table will create a record with an identity value of 100.

DBCC CHECKIDENT('Employees',RESEED, 99)

How to Active Windows 8 Pro (Upgrade) on a Clean Install

If you use the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to install on a clean PC (or VM), and can't activate it because you get the following error:

Code: 0xC004F061 

Description: The Software Licensing Service determined that this specified product key can only be used for upgrading, not for clean installations.

...then here are the steps to workaround the issue:

1. In Windows 8, press [Windows Key]+[8], and type REGEDIT. 
2. Navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE 
3. Change the value of MediaBootInstall to 0 (it's default value is 1) 
4. Go to the Start screen and start typing "Command Prompt" (this will cause the search for apps sidebar to open up and on the left the [Command Prompt] application will appear. 
5. Right click on [Command Prompt] and choose "Run as Administrator" from the bottom 
6. Type: slmgr /rearm and press [Enter] 
7. Click OK when the window comes up to tell you that windows has been rearmed. 
8. Type: shutdown -r and press [Enter] 
9. Once Windows 8 has restarted, login and run activation again. 

Your Windows 8 Pro will now be activated. Enjoy!

Visual Studio 20120 Setup Project: Unable to update the dependencies of the project

So this happens to me every now and again.

Here's are some workarounds I've used:

1. Simply shutdown Visual Studio 2010, restart and rebuild.  This seems to fix the problem most times.
2. If option #1 doesn't work, do the following:
1. Remove the offending project(s) from the solution
2. Go to the folder where the project lives and delete everything except the project itself.
3. Re-add the project to the solution
4. Rebuild.