Using VS2005 over a server share

[David Mason]

Hi.

I am using vs2005 professional and have just built a website on my local
machine.

I have just copied it to another computer on the network where I store all
my projects but now I can't open it. When I do, I get the following
error/warning in VS2005 and I can't compile it:

Error 1 Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\html\Client Web
Sites\MantisShop_Template\App_WebReferences' because the network BIOS command
limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to
Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not
supported for the Windows XP Platform. /

What would be causing this?

[Erik Funkenbusch]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:20:28 -0800, David Mason wrote:

Hi.

I am using vs2005 professional and have just built a website on my local
machine.

I have just copied it to another computer on the network where I store all
my projects but now I can't open it. When I do, I get the following
error/warning in VS2005 and I can't compile it:

Error 1 Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\html\Client Web
Sites\MantisShop_Template\App_WebReferences' because the network BIOS command
limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to
Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not
supported for the Windows XP Platform. /

What would be causing this?

If I had to hazzard a guess, i'd say it's because "Hosting on a UNC share
is not supported for the Windows XP Platform."

[David Mason]

Thanks Erik.

What I would like to know is how I can access my VS 2005 project over the
network. I was able to do this just fine with VS 2002 and VS 2003 so I don't
understand why it will not work with VS 2005

"Erik Funkenbusch" wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:20:28 -0800, David Mason wrote:

Hi.

I am using vs2005 professional and have just built a website on my local
machine.

I have just copied it to another computer on the network where I store all
my projects but now I can't open it. When I do, I get the following
error/warning in VS2005 and I can't compile it:

Error 1 Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\html\Client Web
Sites\MantisShop_Template\App_WebReferences' because the network BIOS command
limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to
Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not
supported for the Windows XP Platform. /

What would be causing this?

If I had to hazzard a guess, i'd say it's because "Hosting on a UNC share
is not supported for the Windows XP Platform."

[Erik Funkenbusch]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:57:26 -0800, David Mason wrote:

Thanks Erik.

What I would like to know is how I can access my VS 2005 project over the
network. I was able to do this just fine with VS 2002 and VS 2003 so I don't
understand why it will not work with VS 2005

Visual Studio 2005 works differently than 2002 and 2003 did. Obviously the
new implementation won't work over a UNC Share anymore, as the error
message tells you.

The reason is that the Visual Studio Developer Web Server can't reliably
monitor changes tofiles over a UNC path on XP, so it can't tell when to
reload the app domain when files like web.config (or, as in your case Web
References) change.

It's a bummer for sure, but being confused about why it won't work won't
magically make it work.