Skip to main content

The Project Location is Not Trusted Dialog Box

Often due to backup issues, our desktop profile is setup to store all profile details (including documents) on  a share location. The benefit of this is two fold
1. It gives you roaming profile. You can logic from any desktop or even remotely, and you have access to all your personal documents
2. All your personal documents are backed up on a shared server. So if your desktop crashes or your laptop is stolen, still you have all your documents on the shared server.

However as a developer using Visual Studio to develop web application, this presents some problems. By default the security policy on windows doesn't trust the files on a network share. So when you create or open a project from your My Documents/My Projects folder, Visual studio shows "The Project Location is Not Trusted" Dialog Box.
Even worse if you try to debug the web application stored on a network share, you get an exception

"An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to '\\server\personal$\username\My Documents\My Projects\Learning\SportsStore\SportsStore.WebUI' 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."

Now there are two ways to resolve this problem.
1. Store the folder on the local drive. By default Windows will apply Full trust to local project. But you loose the advantages mentioned above. Also IT people may not prefer you storing documents on local drive.
2. This options requires local administrator prevliges or change in Enterprise security policy. You basically amend the default windows security policy to allow Full Trust to your profile folder on network share. You can minimise the risk by applyling Full Trust to MY Projects folder only. You can amend the security policy by using CASPOL tool which comes with .Net Framework.

You start Visual Studio command prompt in administrative mode (running as Administartor)

caspol -m -ag 1.2 -url '\\server\personal$\username\My Documents\My Projects\*' FullTrust

This should stop visual studio prompt and you should be able to debug the project.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to detect HTML5 support for a browser?

HTML5 has introduced lots of new cool  tags . Not all the browsers support all tags and also the implementation of these tags may be different for each browser. HTML5 specification defines the functional aspects of these tags and not the implementation. Also the general concensus is that by 2022 all browsers will support all new features of HTML5. Of all the modern browsers, Chrome seems to have implemented most, if not all, featutes of HTML5. IE9 supports few. Firefox sits in between. So as a developer how do you make use of the cool HTML5 features without causing any compatibility issues with existing browsers? Traditionally developers have used User Agent to detect browser type and use the features accordingly. However these days, you can easily change a User Agent by using addons in your browser. So you need a more robust way to detect the features supported by the browser as the same engine of two different versions of a browser mig...
Post a Comment
Read more

Searching Unicode characters in Oracle table

Oracle implementation of Regular expression has no support for using hexadecimal code to search for Unicode characters. The only way to search for Unicode character is it use the character itself. Normally with Regular expression, you can use \x or \u followed by hexadecimal code to search for any character. E.g. \x20 will match space. But REGEXP_LIKE in Oracle does not support \x. You need to use unistr function to convert the code to equivalent character and then use it with REGEXP_LIKE. E.g. REGEXP_LIKE(source,'[' ||unistr('\0020')|| ']');
Post a Comment
Read more

System.Configuration in .Net Framework 2 onwards

Often application need custom configuration section. System.Configuration namespace includes classes for reading and writing configuration settings. There is a slight difference in how you use this namespace depending on the Framework version you are using Prior to .Net Framework 2.0, the .Net Framework included System.Configuration namespace, but that version of the namespace is now outdated. If you simply add the System.configuration namespace to your project (using in C#), your application references the outdated namespace. To refer to the updated namespace, follow these steps 1. In VS, open the project that requires System.Configuration namespace. 2. Click on the Project menu and then click Add Reference 3. On the .Net tab, Select System.Configuration as shown in following figure, and click OK 4. Now add the System.Configuration namespace to your project normally using Imports (in VB) or using (in C#) and your application will reference the correct version of the namespa...
Post a Comment
Read more