Sunday, March 18, 2007

Finally passed the 70-300 exam

The last weeks it has been very quited on my blog since I've been busy with studying for the 070-300 exam. This is one of the exams that I was planning for a long time but never had the time to do it. So last friday I finally passed it.

I've used the MS PRESS book (Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures, Exam 70-300) to study for the exam. The book is pretty good but I found that the MOC 2710 was more related to the exam.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Could not load file or assembly after installing LINQ May 2006 CTP

When working with the class designer in Visual Studio 2005 I received the following error:

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.CSharp.Services.Language, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

I remembered that I installed the "Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Language-Integrated Query, May 2006 Community Technology Preview" the day before.


After uninstalling the Linq CTP, everything worked fine again. I didn't find a real solution yet but since it is a CTP version I don't bother too much.