Tag: error

Error – The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to create the virtual machine “Windows Phone 8 Emulator”

This was one of the errors that I received when trying to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK in my Windows 8.1 system and trying to create a new project and run it. The error message was “The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to create the virtual machine, something happened while creating a switch”… The Windows Phone 8 emulator has the prerequisite that the system…

Could not load file or assembly … An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (System.BadImageFormatException)

There are times when you might get the following error when running the application from Visual Studio or opening your application page in the browser. Could not load file or assembly … An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (System.BadImageFormatException) I received this error recently when trying to deploy the application in the IIS and accessing the page from the…

WP8 Error – Cannot clear the icon while in a list Parameter name: value

When using the ApplicationBar in the Windows Phone Application and dynamically setting the IconButtons from code behind , I encounter this error . Cannot clear the icon while in a list Parameter name: value The cause of the error and the fix is pretty straight forward . I was setting the IconUri of the ApplicationBarIcon button programmatically and the value of the IconUri was not…

Exception from HRESULT: 0x800455BC Error when using SpeechRecognizer in WP8

When using the SpeechRecognizerUI in your windows phone 8 app, there are times when you receive the “Exception from HRESULT: 0x800455BC Error”. The outcome of this error is “When you call the SpeechRecognizerUI’s RecognizeWithUIAsync() method , it displays a dialog for few seconds and then disappears immediately. When you debug the app, you will find the error “Exception from HRESULT: 0x800455BC ” with the stack…