Product: IdeaBlade DevForce -- Error 1606.Could not access network location \Visual Basic.
Product: IdeaBlade DevForce -- Error 1606.Could not access network location \Visual C#.

 

Previous forum post suggests this is an issue with loading DF VS Project Templates into %userprofile% path which may not be accessible as described in registry key...

 

Can you please shed some light on what I might need to do here.

 

VS2010 registry key UserProjectsTemplatesLocation has been ammended to use physical path c:\Users\Dominic\Documents... etc

 

Rgds

BigFish

 

It errors with the above messages, then completes with failure, and nothing installed.

 

There is no installation directory to speak of... (that I can find in any case).

 

I suspect the installer package is trying to write files but cannot as its not finding the correct physical path or its blocked by invalid credentials.  I'm running the IdeaBladeDevForce5.2.6.setup application as Administrator.

 

This environment is Windows7 32 bit, VS2010 RC 32bit running in Windows Virtual PC guest.  Fresh install of Windows7, VS2010, Silverlight3tools, nothing else.

 

Hoping IB can shed some light pleae.  I really need to get DFU installed for some prototyping this week.

Good find!

 

Specifically, I am looking for these two registry keys:

 

        if (helper.Is64BitOS()) {
            regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(msRegistry64bitIdeaBladev4KeyName);
        } else {
            regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(msRegistryIdeaBladev4KeyName);
        }if (just4me) {
            shellFoldersKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(msRegistryShellFolders);
            regKey.SetValue("LearningResourcesLocation", (String)shellFoldersKey.GetValue("Personal") + " file://%5C%5CDevForce - \\DevForce ");
        } else {
            shellFoldersKey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(msRegistryShellFolders);
            regKey.SetValue("LearningResourcesLocation", (String)shellFoldersKey.GetValue("Common Documents") + " file://%5C%5CDevForce - \\DevForce ");
        }

 

    private const String msRegistryShellFolders = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders";

    private static String msRegistryIdeaBladev4KeyName = @"SOFTWARE\IdeaBladev4";
    private static String msRegistry64bitIdeaBladev4KeyName = @"SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IdeaBladev4";

I will file a bug, and use a reasonable default if I can't find either key.

 

If you are correct, the problem is not with the setting of the UserProjectTemplates location, but the setting of the LearningResourcesLocation.

 

I am not sure that this explains BigFish's problem.  The problem would appear to be in the UserProjectsTemplatesLocation, not with the LearningResourcesLocation.

 

BigFish said earlier:

 

VS2010 registry key UserProjectsTemplatesLocation has been ammended to use physical path c:\Users\Dominic\Documents... etc

Thanks, I didn't think to Google it. My bad.  I made the change to the regsitry key UserProjectsTemplatePath from  %userprofile% to c:\users\dominic\... as per earlier post on IB, but this had no effect.  Sorry if that's led you up the garden path.

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Common AppData - set to C:\ProgramData

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Common AppData - set to %ProgramData%

 

Hope that helps with the debug.  Please let me know what else might be useful...

 

 

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\AppData - set to c:\Users\Dominic\AppData\Roaming

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Local AppData - set to c:\Users\Dominic\AppData\Local

 

both folders exist, no IdeaBlade or DevForce folders within them...

 

 

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Local AppData - set to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local