Update for .Net Framework 3.5
On 12th may Microsoft? has released Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 BETA, that offers lots of new features for users. S. Somasegar says that Service Pack BETA, offers updated user interface with ability to add lots of components. For example this Service Pack is first release for Visual Studio 2008 that brings full support for SQL Server 2008 and ADO.NET Entity Framework. Somasegar also said that with this beta version will have improved performances and functionality in Windows Presentation Foundation Designers.
How to fix: Warning CS1668: Invalid search path… In Visual Studio
To some users, this diagnostic comes as a surprise. We added it very early in the Whidbey (C# 2.0/VS 8.0) product cycle to help those who made a simple typo when modifying their LIB environment variable (or when using the /lib compiler option) but it’s still a new thing to deal with for those trying out Whidbey for the first time. Tons of customers have yet to try Whidbey and their first experience with it will be with the final released version. So, I’m sure there will be some more who hit this in the future.
The unfortunate thing about this is that we’ve realized that uninstalling Visual Studio 2002 (v7.0) or Visual Studio 2003 (v7.1) will remove certain directories that were added to the LIB environment variable at install time. This leaves your LIB environment variable in a state that will cause the Whidbey compiler to warn you about it using the CS1668 diagnostic. Plenty of developers are familiar with environment variables in Windows and it shouldn’t cost them more than a few seconds to get rid of the warning forever, but I’ve run into a few who weren’t as familiar with it and it caused them some grief. The good news is that Whidbey no longer seems to modify these environment variables at install time, so we shouldn’t run into a similar situation with future releases.
The warning looks as follows:
warning CS1668: Invalid search path ‘thepath’ specified in ‘LIB environment variable’ — ‘The system cannot find the path specified.’
To fix this, one must remove the path that no longer exists on the machine from the LIB environment variable.
Here is how you remove it:
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
Brief Description
The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by Windows Vista enhancements.
Overview
If the machine participated in the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta, please be sure to uninstall the beta first.
During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. While we have made tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backwards compatibility, some of the system enhancements, such as User Account Control, changes to the networking stack, and the new graphics model, make Windows Vista behave differently from previous versions of Windows. These investments impact Visual Studio 2005. The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by Vista enhancements.
Many of the Windows Vista enhancements are documented at the Windows Vista Development Center.
This download installs the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista for the following Visual Studio SKUs:
Fixing Error “Unable to start debugging on the web server”.
“Unable to start debugging on the web server. You do not have permission to debug the application. The URL for this project is in the Internet zone.”
You may receive the error “Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. You do not have permission to debug the application. The URL for this project is in the Internet zone. Click Help for more information.”
This is one of the various errors that appear when you are debugging and may haunt you until you do the following fix:-
1. In the Internet Explorer, “Tools” Menu, select “Internet Options”.
2. Switch to “Security” Tab.
3. Click on “Internet” (The Globe Icon. Its actually the default selected).
4. Click on “Custom Level” in the bottom.
5. Scroll down to find the “User Authentication” section.
6. Select “Automatic logon with current username and password”.
7. Click “Ok” twice to exit.
This should solve the issue.
Please note that this resolution is specific only if you get the exact error message as mentioned in the beginning of this article. There are various reasons you get the “Unable to start debugging on the webserver”. For a complete list of solutions, please check
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/…/html/vsdebug.asp
How to Run ASP.NET v1.1 on IIS7 (use Visual Studio 2003 on Vista)
Overview
There are 5 steps to installing ASP.NET v1.1 on IIS7:
- Ensure that “IIS Metabase Compatibility” is installed
- Install .NET Framework v1.1 and .NET Framework v1.1 SP1
- Enable the ASP.NET v1.1 ISAPI Extension
- Add the IgnoreSection Handler to Framework v1.1 machine.config to system.webServer
- Move your site or application to a Framework v1.1 application pool
