Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Visual Studio Help file

When opening Help in Visual Studio, it opens in the browser

Turns out the help files are located in:

  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\HelpLibrary\content\Microsoft\store

The files with extension mshc are zip files of the HTML files.

Monday, 24 August 2015

ARIS Express memory error

When I ran ARIS Express.exe, I was getting the error


  • Unable to allocate the required amout of memory for the JVM. Please turn off Automatic Memory Management in launcher.cfg and try again. If you see this message again, try to lower the value of Xmx in launcher.cfg.

launcher.cfg is located in ..\ARIS Express\client\jre\bin\client\

I tried deleting the file, increasing Xmx, decreasing Xmx, still the same error


I thought I could run the jnlp file from a web page by creating a link, similar to a ClickOnce application

Turns out I just had to double-click the jnlp file

Wednesday, 19 August 2015

SoapUI multiple namespace in XPath

Was trying to grab element text from the Response of the previous Test Step which had multiple namespaces

${CreateRecord#Response#//*[namespace-uri()='http://tempuri.org/' and namespace-uri()='http://ws.company.com' and name()='RecordID']/text()}

didn't work so ended up ignoring namespaces

${CreateRecord#Response#//*[local-name()='RecordID']/text()}


Thursday, 25 June 2015

UFT Database Checkpoint

Couldn't work out why it didn't like

UPDATE ...


Ah, because it's a "query"