ML's Chatter

InfoPath 2010 – When creating a filename that breaks your submit

michaellotter — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:29:25 -1400

When using a new product a day never goes by when you don’t learn something new and today was no exception. I’ve been working on 3 new forms and today I was making tweaks to a couple of the forms and after publishing one of them I ran into the below errors when trying to submit a new form to a form library. The error messages that I was receiving were really vague to for the actual problem.

InfoPath cannot submit the form.
An error occurred while the form was being submitted.
The form cannot be submitted to the following location: form library url
The site may be offline, read-only, or otherwise unavailable.
The thread is already in background processing mode.

Naturally after getting the error the troubleshooting hat went on and I started searching the internet for a solution but unfortunately couldn’t find one. Then reviewed the changes that were made before it broke and couldn’t find anything wrong. Started to look at the error messages again and when I scrolled over to the right to view full URL a light bulb turned on because I noticed something that a previous client had a problem with. My filename ended with a . (period) and that’s a big no no with InfoPath forms. The naming convention for the filename is “event name - company name” and for this instance the company name ended with a period. Once I removed the period from the end of company name everything worked like a charm.

For my client we had to use a rule to search the filename for illegal characters before the form was submitted and replacing them with a _ (underscore) or just removing it all together. The approach was used because we couldn’t rely on the users to remember not to add illegal characters to the end of the filename.

Until next time.

Cheers,
Michael

InfoPath 2010 – File tab

michaellotter — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:10:20 -1400

When using InfoPath 2010 I’ve always found myself coming back to the “File” tab to do something and each time I come back I’m finding new things to talk about. In my last post I mentioned the “Design Checker” section being tinted in red when the form had a error.

Today when editing an existing form to fix a layout issue I noticed that the “Publish your form” and “Design Checker” sections were tinted in a yellowish color advising me that my current changes weren’t published and form status was “Not checked”.

When creating a new form the “Submit Options” was a yellowish color because a submit option hadn’t been specified yet. I’m finding out that InfoPath 2010 is a lot more informative when something is wrong or not everything has been wired correctly.

There is just so many cool simple little features in InfoPath 2010 that has made my life easier and make me want to share it with others. This year is now starting to shape up to be a good one. Now all I need to do is find some InfoPath 2010 projects besides my own to push my knowledge of InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Cheers,
Michael

InfoPath 2010 Design Checker – Form Template Contains Errors

michaellotter — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:54:12 -1400

The InfoPath Design Checker isn’t new but it’s now located in a different area and I discovered some unexpected functionality. Let’s first talk about the new location and then will get to the unexpected functionality.

When building one of my new InfoPath forms for SharePoint Saturday I accidently created it as a browser based form and when publishing it the typical error box appeared asking if I wanted to Review Errors or Publish Anyway. This box only appears if the Designer Checker has already been told to verify the form on the server before publishing.

If this setting hasn’t been set then the form will publish and you’ll receive a warning box staying the form publishing status and error message. By clicking the OK button the Designer Checker task pane will open and the Verify on Server check box will automatically get checked. In my opinion this warning should have appeared before the form was published so the error could be resolved before publishing the form.

Clicking the Review Errors button the Design Checker task pane appears and allows for view of the errors, Refresh button (check for errors again), Verify on server check box and Change Settings link. If you’ve never used InfoPath 2010 or 2007 the error message in task pane is clickable and a more detailed error message is given. For this instance the error tells me it’s not convertible because I’m running a older version of Form Services and that’s not a 100% correct either because I’m using InfoPath with BPOS.

If you ever want to run the Design Checker before publishing it can be done from the File page by clicking the Design Checker button. If the form has an existing error then the Design Checker will be highlighted in red. When going to this page for something else the red highlight was immediately noticeable and it was a great nonintrusive way to show the form still had a error.

To fix this particular error the form type had to be changed and the dropdown box to do this is located on the Compatibility screen on the Form Options pop-up. The Form Options pop-up is accessible by clicking the Form Options button from the File page or Change settings link from the Design Checker task pane. The Change settings link takes you directly to the screen. By changing the value to InfoPath Filler Form or InfoPath 2007 Filler Form and clicking the OK button the error goes away immediately.

Ok now for the unexpected functionality. If you click on the red x to close the dialog box it doesn’t cancel publishing of the form but instead publishes it. To be honest this functionality really surprised me because I was expecting it to cancel the publishing and show me the error message in the Designer Checker task pane. This is definitely one of those situations that gets written in OneNote as unexpected behavior for InfoPath.

Cheers,
Michael

InfoPath 2010 - How to turn off “Create labels for controls automatically”

michaellotter — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:27:26 -1400

One of the best times and sometimes frustrating times is when a new version of a product is released and you get to learning all the new features of it or learn where all the old options have been moved to. When I started using InfoPath 2010 I had to figure out where the option “Create labels for controls automatically” check box was located so I could turn it off. Luckily this was a easy one and it took me only about 5 minutes to figure out. Below are instructions on how to turn it off/on.

From your InfoPath design view click File

From the File page click “Options” in left vertical menu

From the InfoPath Options dialog click the “More Options” button

From the Options dialog click the “Design” tab and uncheck the “Create labels for controls automatically”

Click OK twice to accept the change.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Michael

Preventing InfoPath 2010 from automatically creating default field names

michaellotter — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:11:15 -1400

Recently I’ve been working in InfoPath 2010 building out a bunch of new forms for SharePoint Saturday and I discovered a new feature that prevents controls automatically being added to the design page with the default field naming convention. In InfoPath 2007 this default functionality drove me nuts because I didn’t have any control of the default field names if I wanted to design the form visually first.

Example: field2, field3

Now in InfoPath 2010 you can prevent this by happening by unchecking the “Automatically create data source” check box located at the bottom of the Controls task pane.

If you are sitting there scratching your head saying how do I get the Controls task pane to display don’t feel alone because it took me about 10 times playing with InfoPath 2010 to find it. From the Controls section on the ribbon click the diagonal down pointing arrow and that will display the Controls task pane.

Now look at the bottom of the Controls task pane and you’ll find the magical check box. By unchecking this check box you will now be shown the binding dialog every time you add a new control to the design area.

For all my new forms for the next couple of months I’ll be leaving the check box unchecked and designing my forms visually to see if this is a better approach for me than my traditional method.

Cheers,
Michael

InfoPath 2010 error when trying to edit a SharePoint 2010 List

michaellotter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:08:51 -1400

Today I got around building another SharePoint 2010 environment because I wanted to enter in the Use InfoPath 2010 with SharePoint 2010 Beta and Win an XBox360 Elite!and need a clean environment and I ran into a interesting error when trying to edit a SharePoint List with InfoPath. When I created the new application and site collection I just used server name. When accessing it from the server the URL worked just fine as http://servername but when accessing it from my Windows 7 VM I had to use the fully qualified server name. No big deal with SharePoint because everything worked as expected. When I tried to edit my custom SharePoint List with InfoPath then I got the below error.

“InfoPath cannot generate a form template for the SharePoint list.”

“The SOAP response indicates that an error occurred on the server:”

“Server was unable to process request. ---> The Web application at http://url/_vti_bin/FormServices.asmx could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

After reading the error message I tried the FormServices.asmx url in the browser and it worked without a hitch. Then I thought about it a little more and the last part of the error message. I’m using the fully qualified URL because I’m running from my VM but the fully qualified URL is not part of Alternate Access Mapping so I just went to Central Admin and AAM page and added the URL as Intranet and tried it again and everything worked without a hitch.

Cheers,
Michael

InfoPath Team Blog active with InfoPath 2010 entries

michaellotter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:20:33 -1400

If you haven’t heard the InfoPath Team Blog has 3 new entries about InfoPath 2010 and the latest entry has video’s. Once you go out and see you’ll notice that the InfoPath Designer has had a face lift and now has a ribbon. The ribbon has brought a lot of easy of use for the product and it is making things so much easier to do now and publishing has became as easy as one click. That’s right one click and your form can be published. For all the details check out the InfoPath Team blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/default.aspx

Cheers,
Michael

Coming up for air and hope to start blogging again

michaellotter — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:59:54 -1400

The last blog entry I had was getting out of New York and since then I’ve been heads down with SharePoint Saturday, Triangle SharePoint User Group, getting ready for a baby girl and plenty of SharePoint and InfoPath work and speaking. My winter and spring has been busier than ever and I am now really excited that I’m starting to have extra time to write again and I have plenty to write about, trust me. :) I know I’m not the best writer but I really had a good time doing it and I’m ready to get back into.

If you haven’t heard yet, there is a new community event out there called SharePoint Saturday and if you haven’t checked it out you should because one might be happening close to you. http://www.sharepointsaturday.org SharePoint Saturday is one of the major reason why I’ve been absent from this blog and who knew it would take so much work to get something like this running on it’s own legs. I had some great help from Susan Lennon, Kevin Israel and Dux Raymond Sy.

If your local to the Raleigh area then check out the new SharePoint user group that was restarted by Josh Carlisle and myself. You can check out the new site at http://www.trispug.com

If you have any questions about either event please fill free to drop me a comment or email.

Cheers

Getting out of New York

michaellotter — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:31:00 -1400

Everybody who knows me, knows that I’ve been working in New York for the past 11 months and commuting back and for from NC. At first when I started working in New York I had a lot of problems because I was always scared that something horrible was going to happen to me and after the months off getting used to living there and people making fun of me because I was so paranoid, I slowly started to get used to all the people everywhere. I even started riding the subway during the daylight hours but never that far and I always stayed in Manhattan. I’m still paranoid about riding it at night or off the island and still won’t do it unless somebody else is with me most of the time. I’m just not a big city person but I’m getting there slowly.

Now that you have the basic understanding of me in New York let’s get to why I’m writing this post. Yesterday December 19th, 2008 was the last day of work for me in New York until January and unfortunately Mother Nature didn’t want me to leave easily because she decided to create this nasty snow and sleet storm all day on Friday. All day I would look out the window and see either heavy snow or hear sleet hitting the window. The longer it went on the more I understood that getting out of the city was going to be really painful unless I took the subway and Airtrain to JFK airport. A taxi or private car was out of the question at this point because of the sleet and the traffic out of the city would be horrible and very unpredictable. So I hoped onto the internet and went out to www.hopstop.com and looked up how and how long it was going to take to get to JFK. When the results game back it was very simple but it was going to take an hour to get there (which is really good time to be honest) but that meant riding on the subway for 30 minutes (people touching me) and into uncharted territory. I was really having second thoughts about doing this and thinking that I could just spend the night and catch another flight the next day. After battling with this for a while I decided to do it. I went back to the apartment and packed everything I could into one bag and took my 3 laptops and started making my way to the subway station. The walk to the subway station was pretty rough because there was 2 inches of snow, slush and water for 5 blocks. When I finally got there I made it through the turn styles with my luggage and down to the train platform. When the train came it was jammed pack with people and only 2 or 3 people got off at my door but I was able to push my way in and off we went. There was nowhere for me to hang on but it didn’t make a difference because we were body to body and nobody was moving anywhere. It stayed packed for about 15 minutes until train was under the river and onto Long Island and then people started getting off. Finally got to Jamaican station and hopped off and walked over to Airtrain station and then hopped on the next train. Traveled on that for about 15 minutes then I was at the airport. Over all it took about an hour but it was really draining on me from all the walking, pushing, shoving and people just bumping into me. It was probably the only way to go but definitely not something I would do in the future unless I had to again.

When I tell people this story in the future nobody will believe me because they would say I would never be able to do it because of people touching me, germs, people touching me and people touching me. But I did do it because I really wanted to get home that night and not get stuck in NYC because the weather could get worse overnight or next day. I got on the plane as schedule then deiced and left for NC and was only an hour late. All is good now because I’m home and getting ready for Christmas.

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Cheers

Data Connection Error because of too many Site Collection references

michaellotter — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:39:00 -1400

This week has been one crazy week for me because Christmas is next week and I’m technically on vacation now for the next 3 weeks. Just like almost everyone else I've been scrambling to get as much work finished before leaving and I had several projects at once pushing for everything to be released by today (Friday). This unfortunately caused for some oversight on my part and caused a lot of little interesting problems to pop-up. One problem that I had was with InfoPath and Data Connections. During the course of my current project the SharePoint Site Collection where the forms were being deployed and Data Connection files being published changed because of Information Architecture had been modified to include "Forms Centeral" and yesterday I ran into this nice error.

“Relative links to Data Connection Libraries located in different SharePoint site collections are not supported”

It didn’t take me long to figure out what the problem was but it was the first time I ran into it and I wanted to mention it. The error message was dead on and I was getting this because I was referencing 2 site collection data connection libraries. I had 2 data connections pointing to the old site collection and one to the new one. After changing the reference everything started working again with no errors. Since I’m publishing all my InfoPath forms into a single Site Collection I decided to keep all my Data Connection files local to that site collection and not publish them to IPFS data connection library in central admin and when I switched site collections I didn’t update the forms data connection references.. You might be saying that this should have broken right away and in normal circumstances it probably would have but I had the “Allow cross-domain data access for user form templates that use connection settings in a data connection file” option selected on IPFS "Configure InfoPath Forms Services" page and this allows for cross site collection Data Connection and Form Library usage.. It’s turned off now that way I don’t have any more problems like this in the future.

If you’re interested in learning more about submitting InfoPath forms across site collections or even web applications you should come out to the spring SharePoint Connections in Orlando because I’ll be doing a session on this very subject. This is will be my first time speaking at SharePoint connections and I really excited about it.

Well it's that time of the year again and I hope that everybody is all ready for the holidays and if not you still have a couple days left. I’m heading back home from New York to get ready myself and then we are spending Christmas with my folks. I’m looking forward to it because I’ll be getting a really good home cooked meal and see everybody in the family. My brother Mark, who just got back from Iraq on Thanksgiving Day, will be there to. It’ll be the first time I’ve seen him since he shipped out in early spring. This Christmas is shaping up to be a good one for me and I hope everyone else a great one to.

Cheers

The dreaded InfoPath Forms Services (IPFS) error box

michaellotter — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:00 -1400

If anybody does any type of InfoPath 2007 browser based form development knows all about the dreaded IPFS error box. In my opinion it's dreaded because the lack of error details it gives or when it does give details how cryptic it is. If you don't do this type of development and think I'm kidding checkout the warning box that I got today.

Honestly how is anybody supposed to troubleshot this error. It doesn't say what rules weren't applied or anything that can help you troubleshoot the error or in my case a warning. When I got this today I went and looked at all the rules to make sure nothing was broken or not set correctly in the form and I couldn't find anything for the life of me and when I ran it through the client no warning or error was received. At this point some people might be at the point throwing up their arms and saying uncle but just keep reading because not everything is lost. Since your form is "Powered by: InfoPath Forms Services" there is one other place you can look and it usually gives really good details. Can you guess where this is at? Come on think really really hard, think SharePoint, yep you got it, SharePoint log files located in the Logs folder ("c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\logs"). If you open your latest large log file in your favorite editor (mine Excel 2007) and search or filter for "Forms Server" you should find your details.

In my case a Data Connection was giving me problems and until I looked in the SharePoint log file there was no way I was going to find the error. It's crazy that you have to go this deep to find the actual error message but to be honest I'm glad its being written somewhere and its accesible.

Cheers

Speaking at SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) January 27th -29th

michaellotter — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:40:00 -1400

In the past year I made it my mission to speak at least once a month at either a Code Camp or User Group meeting to practice on my speaking, presentation and writing skills. After squeezing in 18 events and 20 + session I can truthfully say that I’ve done the best I could this year. All this practice this past year has given me some good experience and opened some doors for me in the coming year. I’m really excited to say that I’ll be speaking this year at the SharePoint Technology Conference January 27^ththru 29^th and this is my first major event for 2009. I’m doing 3 sessions at www.SPTechCon.com and I’m really excited about it. Each session is 100 level and focused for individuals looking to get the basics about each subject. I’ve done a variation of the SharePoint Security Management for the Business User session at the Roanoke Code Camp in the spring of this year and it was a really fun class because we talked and walked through the security screens for a Site Collection, Web (sub site), List, Folder and item. The other 2 sessions are brand new for me but really interesting subjects. Tuning Memory Management session is something that I think everyone should here about at least once if they are running WCM style sites, InfoPath Forms Services, Excel Calculation Services, Search or just a large SharePoint environment to be honest. There are so many new pieces to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that it’s really important to understand what is available to help tune your environment and where to find benchmarking information. Last but not least is SharePoint Directory Management session that gives the basics that you need to know if you’re going to be doing incoming email and how it works with Active Directory if you decide to do it in advanced mode. Just like everything else with SharePoint there is several different ways to tackle this feature but there is no one fit all approach if you ask me. Everything depends on your situation you have and which approach would work best for you now and in the future. Below is a list of my session titles and abstracts that I’ll be speaking on.

Tuning Memory Management in SharePoint

When I began working with SharePoint Portal Server 2001 andSharePoint Team Services there weren’t a lot of options available for tuning anything especially memory. WhenSharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, IIS 6 and SQL 2005 were available we started seeing more options for tuning SharePoint installation and it was really necessary because of the new capability of scaling out the farm and RAM limitation of Windows Server 2003 32 bit. Now with MOSS and WSS v3 having more functionality and more screens/options for performance tuning memory management has become a necessary action to make the farm run as smoothly as possible. This session shows and gets into those details on what can be done to make your farm memory management as efficient as possible.

SharePoint Security Management for the Business User

With MOSS or WSS v3 the new site collection and sub site security capabilities are astonishing but there are so many new options available that it’s really hard to truly understand what is possible and how to effectively manage security. The complexity of managing security even gets more complicated when working with sub sites because of how the screens display the security groups. This session reviews all the different options that are available and then goes into detail on how to effectively use the options with and without inheritance at the site collection and sub site level. List, Library, Folder, Item and Document level security is reviewed to finish up the session. This session uses demo’s frequently to actually show what screens and options are being talked about so everyone canget a clear picture of what is really being talked about.

SharePoint Directory Management

When MOSS and WSS v3 came out I couldn’t believe all the new capabilities and after working with it for over 2 years I’m still learning new things and I truly don’t believe I’ll ever know every capability. One of the new capabilities in this versionis SharePoint Directory Management Service on the Incoming email page in Central Administration and I found out how important this option is when doing incoming email for SharePoint List’s a few projects ago. This session reviews SharePoint Directory Management Service purpose, capabilities and technical detail. Once all the high level detail and how it works with Active Directory are out of the way then we can start into the demos. The demo’s go into some detailand shows a lot of what was talked about earlier in the session.

Hope everyone has a great holiday season.

Cheers

While at the JFK airport this evening

michaellotter — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:56:00 -1400

Like most other Friday nights I was checking at the Delta counter at terminal 2 at the JFK airport getting ready to head home for the weekend and for some reason I was waiting an extra long time to get my bags checked. While I was waiting I notice ayoung lady around my age at one of the counters and she was on the phone talking but looked really sad. I figured that she was leaving a loved one and heading away for Christmas or something like that and I didn't think anything else of it. Then I finally got called to a ticket counter and it was right next to the young ladies and she was still there and looking even sadder than before. While I was standing there she started crying while on her phone and I started to get really nervous because I was starting to feel really bad for her because I hate it when women are crying. It always makes me said when women are crying and I’m not sure why but that’s just how I am. Then I started to listen why she was so sad and it was because the airline wasn't going to let her dog on the plane with her because it was too big or something and if she wanted to take it with her it would cost any extra $150 and she saying she only had $40 in cash and she had no other way to pay for it. I could hear her talking with a friend that she has in NY to see if he or she could make it out to the airport in time and pay for it and I don’t think things were looking to good for her. I honestly didn’t think anybody was going to make it out to the airport in time and she only had 45 minutes before she had to check in. Everybody was looking really gloom and then I finally asked the Delta agent how much it would cost and they said $150 and I said Ok, I’ll pay for. They all looked at me and I said again I would pay for it. Then the young lady looked at me and started crying even more (not good for me) and she gave me a big hug because she was so happy. At this time I was a nervous wreck and started shaking on the inside because I was so nervous for her and I just wanted to see her happy and not crying anymore. To be honest I was just glad that she could get on her plane with her dog and go where ever she planned on going. During this whole time I was thinking that this young lady could have easily been my wife and I would have wanted somebody to help her if she was in the same type of situation. When I get home and tell Heather about the whole thing and how much money it cost I will get in a little bit of trouble because money is tight for us at the moment but I honestly think it was the right thing to do. I figured that this could be my Christmas present to myself. I’m normally not this open of a person about my personal life but for some reason I just felt that I needed to share this experience. Even now when I’m writing this my heart still races a little and my nerves are still a little shaky. I’m just hoping that everything worked out for her and her dog and they are happily on their way to their final destination.

Hope everybody has a great weekend and happy holiday season.

Cheers

SharePoint Saturday, Twitter and Facebook

michaellotter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:03:00 -1400

Just recently I was in Kansas City for "KC Day of Dot Net" event and was talking to Becky about how to better promote the SharePoint Saturday event in Virginia Beach on January 10th and she said I should be doing it through Twitter and Facebook. If anybody really knows me I'm not the most social person because I'm always working a lot of hours and I like to keep a low profile but I figured I would give it a valiant effort and see what happens. When I got back to NYC I created 2 new Twitter accounts http://twitter.com/michaellotter and http://twitter.comspsaturday and a new Facebook group called SharePoint Saturday and event for Virginia Beach and started using all my new resources with some help from Becky.

A couple of days has gone by and I'm following a few people and few people are following me on Twitter and I've added the Twitter blog widget to my blog and a link to the SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach site. Beyond that I'm still getting my feet wet with the whole thing and trying to find out which third party Twitter application works best for me. I can remember back in April at the Pittsburgh Code Camp (great code camp!) I met Amanda Laucher and she tried to convince me to do Twitter then but I told her it wasn't for me because it was way to social (I was having a hard enough time with my blog). She was so fanatic about it, a group of us even joked around with her that she would be the first Twitter MVP. The value of Twitter is still being measured but it does seem to be a good vehicle for getting information out and meeting new people. Last night I met Jeremy Thake and he introduce me to his SharePoint Dev Wiki.

Now Facebook is a different story and it's probably because I'm not using it correctly yet because of it's complexity but I'm getting some good tips from Becky and I'm sure it will bring great value in the future. Currently I just like posting pictures that Heather takes and taking credit for them. I've created a badge for my Facebook account because this is the only way I know how to invite people outside of search for them on Facebook.

Well I better get back to work on all my SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach and New York City items before I run out of time.

Cheers

Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite - SharePoint Workflow templates disappeared

michaellotter — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:44:00 -1400

The below post was a big senior moment for me because it took me several hours to figure out what was so obliviously wrong. This post is for anybody else that has one and for my next one.

Just recently I installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite on the same VPC that I had Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 installed on. I was really excited about getting to use it until I noticed that the VSTO for Office 2007 wasn't displaying any templates.

This was really bad for me because I've been using the SharePoint Workflow template for my current project and I need to create 2 more workflows this week. I searched the web for a solution and I couldn't find anybody else having the same problem or a solution. I kept troubleshooting the problem but was striking out big time. After a couple days of trying to figure it out casually I decided to dig in for a final stand and figure out what was wrong. I started out uninstalling VS 2005 and VS 2008 Professional and rebooted but nothing different. Then I installed SP1 for 3.5 and VS 2008 but when I rebooted nothing different. Then I uninstalled MOSS SDK, WSS SDK and SharePoint Extensions and reinstalled with the latest bits and rebooted but still nothing different. I was starting to get a little desperate at this point and I started looking at all the settings in VS and on the New Project pop-up window then I noticed that the default .NET Framework was 3.0 and not 3.5. I changed it to 3.5 and all my templates magically appeared. It would have been really nice if they had a dummy message appear saying "hey dummy wrong framework use 3.5 to see these". Once I switched the .NET Framework to 3.5 everything appeared magically.

To be honest I'm glad that it wasn't a major problem and I don't have these moments that often. I hope everybody is having a better week than me.

Cheers