The "FindRibbons" task could not be loaded MS Office VSTO

I've recently encountered with an error in a VSTO development (an Excel Add-in) under Vs 2010 environment.   The error message I got when compiling the solution is as follows.

"The "FindRibbons" task could not be loaded from the assembly Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.BuildTasks, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask"

I have install the VS 2012 together with VS2010 recently and I did the following process to get this resolved.

1. Open "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.targets" File from below Location
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\OfficeTools
2.  Press Ctrl+H and replace all all 10.0.0.0 text wit 11.0.0.0
3. Save the file to desktop with the same same & extension.
4. Delete the original file
5. Cut and pate the saved file to above location.
6. Close and restart VS 2010 (If Opened) 

How to Easily integrate PHP Code in Blogger or blogspot

PHP is considered as the most powerful computer language that makes things happen with the glimpse of seconds. However, PHP is not supported by Blogger or BlogSpot running platform which makes it extremely difficult to customize and implement some new latest developments, but there are still some ways through which you can add PHP codes in your Blogger enabled Website. Though, the results are not 100%, but it is far better than not having a PHP code on your blogger site. In this article, we will show you how to add PHP codes in Blogger.

Step#1: Creating a PHP File:

Before you can add PHP Codes in blogger, you have to first create a PHP file in which you have to use all the PHP codes that you would like to use.  However, make sure that the file is free from errors otherwise things would not look good. Following is the simple Hello World PHP code example, just for a basic guideline for some beginners

<?php
echo '<p>Hello World</p>';
 ?>

After creating the file with all your desired codes make sure you save it in .PHP extension. For example, mybloggerlab.php, you can use NotePad++ for writing codes because it is the only FREE standard developing tool.

Step#2: Hosting a PHP File:

Since, blogger does not allow you to host any kind of files like PHP, HTML or CSS. Therefore, you have to either host it on your hosting (if you have) or you can use Google Drive to host them for FREE. We have already written a detailed tutorial on It, so read it here.

You can also use Dropbox, and many other free hosting services but certainly they are not better than the features and reliability of Google Drive.

Step#3: Adding  PHP Codes in Blogger

After creating and hosting the PHP file, login into your Blogger account. Once logged in, head over to the dashboard and select the blog on which you would like to add PHP Codes. Now it depends on your needs whether you want to add the PHP code in posts, pages, sidebar or footer. Just paste the following code anywhere you would like to display the PHP file.

<object width="400" height="300" type="text/html" data=" your-file.php"></object>

Don’t forget to replace your-file.php with the URL of your own PHP file that you may have got while hosting it on services like Google Drive Dropbox and etc.

Congratulations: You have successfully added PHP codes to blogger. Go and check your blog to see if things are working as planned. Let us know, if you have a better way of doing this job.

We hope this tutorial has helped you in learning how to add PHP codes in blogger. Still, this is not the most accurate way because we are just using a iFrame technique to include the codes. Blogger needs to think more on making its platform friendly for the developers so that they can bring awesomeness to their blogs and websites.

How to Press and Send Ctrl-Alt-Del in Remote Desktop Connection Window

Remote Desktop Connection client allows user to remotely connect and administer another Windows computer that is running Microsoft Terminal Services. As with most remote control system or even virtualization process, which effectively and virtually run two or more system on a single physical machine, user will have problem to trigger Control-Alt-Delete (Ctrl+Alt+Del) keyboard shortcut key combination.
Ctrl-Alt-Del keyboard shortcut has been commonly used since IBM PC with DOS era to perform soft reboot, and used in modern Windows system to activate Winlogon process (log on to Windows NT), open Task Manager or Windows Security dialog box that allows user to log off, lock computer, shutdown PC, run Task Manager, switch user and other functions.

However, whenever trying to trigger Ctrl-Alt-Del function on remote system connected via Remote Desktop Connection, the keyboard shortcut combination pressed will bring up the Ctrl+Alt-Del function on the local machine instead of the machine remotely logged on via RDC.

This behavior is by design though, as Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination is too important for any PC (to run especially when computer encounters halt error or hang). As such, Ctrl-Alt-Del keyboard shortcut is always reserved for local host computer.

In order to send Ctrl-Alt-Del keystrokes to remote computer connected via Remote Desktop client, just press the following workaround:

Ctrl+Alt+End

Tools To Simulate CPU / Memory / Disk Load

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Lot of people search for tools to simulate high CPU, Memory and Disk issues. Here are the tools we can use

Simulate High CPU Usage

CPUSTRES.EXE is a tool you can use to simulate High CPU usage by an user mode process. Its available for download from the Windows Sysinternals website.

Here I have used CPUSTRES to simulate 50% CPU usage.

CPUSTRES also has options to change the priority of the threads it spawns.

Simulate High Memory Usage

To simulate high memory usage you can use the TestLimit tool from the Sysinternals website. TestLimit can be used to simulate a variety of memory leak issues. Here I am using TestLimit to reduce the Available memory on my machine.

 

Simulate High Disk Activity

SQLIO is a tool for benchmarking the I/O capacity of a given storage system. It can simulate sequential and random I/O and is usually used to test storage systems for SQL Server installations.

SQLIO is an useful tool that you can use to simulate high disk activity.

Simulate High Disk Usage

Another useful tool to simulate these issues is consume.exe. It ships with Windows SDK and can be used to consume resources like CPU, memory and disk. Here I am using consume.exe to simulate low disk space issues.

NOTE : Use these tools with extreme caution as they can freeze the machine you run them on and you might end up rebooting the machine.

How to Host CSS or JavaScript Files in Blogger using Google Drive

Hosting CSS and JavaScript files on your Blogger blog has always been a matter of concern for a webmaster. People prefers to add their entire StyleSheet coding in one file, so they can upload it to their hosting and can easily apply it on their website.  Unfortunately, blogger has quite a few limitations that stop you from hosting CSS and JavaScript files. Recently our user sent us an email asking: is there any way to host files on blogger? What are the advantages of hosting CSS (StyleSheet) files?  Luckily, Google Drive provides you the opportunity to host CSS, JavaScript and HTML Files for FREE. In this article, we will show you How to Host CSS Files with Google Drive in Blogger?

Why to Host files on Google Drive?

• Lots of Space: Google Drive provides you 5 GB storage to regular accounts so you can easily upload lots of documents. However, if your disk space is full, then you can upgrade your account from basic to premium. 

• Create & collaborate: Google Drive provides you the flexibility to create and host different kinds of spreadsheets and presentations. Make some edits in the documents and see real-time changes as they appear. 

• Reliable & Dependable: With 100% uptime, it provides you the freedom to host anything that you like. It has unlimited bandwidth, but you have to take care of your disk space it should not exceed 5GB mark or you can upgrade your account.

• Go back and revise: Google drive tracks almost all the change that you make to your document - so whenever you will save a document, a new revision also gets save. You can take a glance back and can make revision accordingly. 

• Share or make files Private: You can share your files and folders with anyone. Select whether others can comment, share, view or edit your stuff. You can handle everything instantly from your dashboard. 

• Security at its best: Google Drive has always proven to be the most reliable free hosting service with unlimited bandwidth. Moreover, to provide full proof security Google drive has utilized HTTPS encryption to keep your documents secure.

• All This For Free: All these impressive features for free.

What are the Advantages of Hosting CSS/JavaScript in one File?

Blogger doesn’t provide its users the flexibility to host CSS or JavaScript files in one separate link. They are hosted within the website’s coding through HTML Tags. 

For StyleSheet, <style> tag is use to define the style information for an HTML document.  Between two <style></style> tags, CSS coding is placed which specify how HTML elements should render in the web browser. Each HTML document can contain multiple <style> tags. 

For JavaScript <script> tag is use to define the script, such as JavaScript. The <script> tag either contains the scripting statements or it points to an external file through src attribute. Each HTML document can contain multiple <script> tags. 

Combining all StyleSheet/JavaScript coding in 1 file helps a website to load faster. Furthermore, it helps search engine to crawl your site smoothly. 

How to Host CSS Files with Google Drive in Blogger:

There are several third-party apps that could help you to host files in blogger including Google Apps, Google Code, and Google App bot. At MyBloggerLab, we use App bot, but the process of hosting files on Appbot is a lot complex. Google Drive is perfect and works better than Appbot because there is no need to worry about the bandwidth. 

Step#1: Copying CSS Coding From You Template:

To host your CSS file with Google Drive in Blogger, first thing you need to do is to copy your all StyleSheet coding from your template to an empty notepad. Go to Blogger » Your site » Template » Edit HTML » Proceed and search for the <b:skin><![CDATA[ tag. On finding this tag, you will see a large chunk of CSS coding, so copy all the CSS coding till the ]]></b:skin> tag.  For more details see the following screenshot.

Step#2: Preparing a style.css file

After copying the CSS coding, remove it from your template and paste the coding in an empty new notepad. Now save the document and name the file to style.css (the extension of the file should be in .css so the browser can render it as StyleSheet). For more details see the following screenshot.

Step#3: Hosting your style.css file on Google Drive:

The next thing is to upload style.css file to your Google Drive account. First go to Google Drive and login into your Gmail Account. Now you have to create a new folder, so you can upload all the web hosting files at one place. Press the “Create” button and from the drop down list select “Folder”. Now name the folder to anything that you like such as webhost, web files and etc. In the end, press "Create" to conclude.  

Now open the folders that you have created a few moments ago (right click on the folder name and select open). On selecting the upload icon present on the left side of your screen, a drop down list will appear which would provide you two choices i.e. File and Folder. Just select “File” and move to the next step.

Now it will request you to select the style.css documents that you created few moments a go. After selecting the file, press the open button and move to the next step.

On pressing the open button a small upload wizard would appear on the right side of your screen. It usually takes a minute or two to upload, but it entirely depends upon the size of your file and the speed of your internet connection.

Once uploading is done, press the “Share” button. Now you have to make this file available for public. Press change, and select “public on the web” so anyone on the Internet can find and access. Finally, press the Save button to conclude the wizard. For detailed instructions, check out the following screenshot.

Step#4: Getting a Proper Hosting Link

The second last step is to prepare a proper hosting link of your style.css file. Right click on the file that you uploaded few moments a go and select “Share”. Copy the whole URL present in the text area under “Link to share”. For more details see the following screenshot. 

After Copying the sharing Link from google drive, it would somewhat looks like this https://docs.google.com/file/d/your-file-code/. You have to change the copied link to https://googledrive.com/host/your-file-code. Remember: Make sure “your-file-code” remains the same before and after the changes are made. 

let us do a small demonstration which would help you in explaining better. For Example, if the link of my file is https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0WJjcJEFNzibXRyZWlwNktKcFk/ so I will change it to https://googledrive.com/host/0B0WJjcJEFNzibXRyZWlwNktKcFk. The only thing which remains the same is the file code.

Step#5: Adding Google Drive Hosted CSS file in Blogger 

After preparing a proper hosting link of your file, once again go to Blogger » Your site » Template » Edit HTML » Proceed. Now search for the starting <head> tag and just above it paste the following code. Remember: Do not forget to replace https://googledrive.com/host/your-file-code with your Google drive hosting link, and make sure you have removed the CSS coding from the template as we have mentioned in the step#1. Once everything is done, press the “Save Template” button. 

<link href='https://googledrive.com/host/your-file-code' rel='stylesheet'/>

If you are still confused about the process then check out this in-depth video tutorial