Adobe Air App Has Stopped Communicating Across Networks

Now this is something that all should know.

All of a sudden, my locally installed Adobe Air applications AND all adl.exe debug players stopped being able to make across network requests.

So 4 restores later, many many SDK regression testing steps later, I found out what the problem was.

Someone, somewhere thought that it would be a very good idea to add a "work offline" mode in Windows Live Mail (my locally installed version).

Simple enough I hear you say and possibly a great idea for the app. But NO, not if it impacts other applications you have installed on your machine, especially if they are Adobe Air Applications and you are an Adobe Air application developer.

The solution was to open Windows Live Mail, and un-select the "work offline" button, as to allow the Windows Live Mail to work online. And bingo, all is back to normal.

I'm sure there is possibly other ways to change this, but somehow I changed this to "work offline" this morning and spent the day thinking I really need to change my vocation in life.

This is just a simple heads up as so no one else has to experience the pain I had today as this one is a really big GOTCHA.