Composite UI Application Block (CAB) - Presenter is null - NullReferenceException

Problem:
While using the Composite UI Application Block (CAB), we encountered a NullReferenceException while accessing the Presenter property in one of our views. We were accessing the Presenter in the OnLoad() method of our view and strangely, the Presenter was not dependency injected on "time" hence generating an exception.

Cause:
We were initializing some UI controls in ours view's constructor. This was triggering the OnLoad() event of our view even if the Presenter property was not yet injected.

Solution:
We move the UI control initialization in the OnLoad() event.

Migrating BizTalk 2006 R2 sources to BizTalk 2013 R2

Problem:
You cannot directly migrate BizTalk 2006 R2 sources to BizTalk 2013 R2.

Solution:
You need to convert your BizTalk 2006 R2 sources to BizTalk 2010 and finally convert from BizTalk 2010 to BizTalk 2013 R2

Migrating BizTalk 2006 R2 sources to BizTalk 2010 : Error converting project file. The element beneath element is unrecognized

Problem:
All my BizTalk 200 R2/Visual Studio 2005 solutions were correctly converted to BizTalk 2010 / Visual Studio 2010 with the exception of one solution where the conversion failed with the following error message:

"Error converting project file. The element <BIZTALK> beneath element <VisualStudioProject> is unrecognized."

It was not a problem with the BizTalk 2010 Developer SDK installation as I succeeded in converting other solutions.

People on the Internet accused the Development/Deployment/Debug/Release solution configurations to be the problem. The correction of my solution configuration did not resolve the conversion problem.

Solution:
Finally, after struggling about half a day, I tried the conversion using the Visual Studio /Upgrade command line and this worked !

devenv "MyBizTalk2006R2VS2005Solution.sln" /Upgrade

Cheers

VDProj to WiX Converter error: A generic error occurred in GDI+

Error: VDProj to WiX Converter error: A generic error occurred in GDI+

Cause: WIX files found in TFS were not checked out. The following link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11316322/bitmap-save-a-generic-error-occurred-in-gdi makes me think that bitmap files in WIX folders were not checked out.

Solution: After checking out all WIX folders and files and I successfully converted my VdProj to WIX

WIX - error ICE30 The target file ... is installed in ... by two different components on an LFN system

Problem: I was getting the follwing error while building one of my WIX projects:

error ICE30 The target file ... is installed in ... by two different components on an LFN system

Solution: After investigating, it turns out that I had two files with the same name which were being included in the installation package. In my case, I could ignore this error by doing the following actions on my WIX project:

1. Right-click on the WIX project, choose properties
2. GO to the "Tools Settings Tab"
3. In the "Suppress specific ICE Validation", type "ICE30"