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Author
7 Sep 2006 9:39 PM
Mark Jerde
Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops, all WinXP
Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)

I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file in the
same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my laptop stopped
handling these correctly.  I did a repair installation but the problem
didn't go away.

I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See attached
*-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and reopened it.  My
files have been replaced by the C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See attached
*-2-*.png.)

Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my other two
machines.  It works fine on both of them.

Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.

   -- Mark

[attached file: VS2005-1-JustCreated.png]
[attached file: VS2005-2-Reopen.png]

Author
8 Sep 2006 5:43 AM
Michael Nemtsev
Hello Mark,

Hmmm, interesting.
Did u just "repair" VS install or remove/install new?

MJ> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops,
MJ> all WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
MJ>
MJ> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file
MJ> in the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my
MJ> laptop stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair
MJ> installation but the problem didn't go away.
MJ>
MJ> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See
MJ> attached *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and
MJ> reopened it.  My files have been replaced by the
MJ> C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See attached *-2-*.png.)
MJ>
MJ> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my
MJ> other two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
MJ>
MJ> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
MJ>
MJ> -- Mark
MJ>
---
WBR,
Michael  Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche
Author
8 Sep 2006 10:16 AM
Mark Jerde
Michael -- Just a repair.  Unless someone comes up with a brainstorm soon it
looks like a remove & reinstall this weekend. ;-)

I installed VS 2005 in a VPC virtual machine last night & it works fine.

   -- Mark

Michael Nemtsev wrote:
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> Hello Mark,
>
> Hmmm, interesting.
> Did u just "repair" VS install or remove/install new?
>
>> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops,
>> all WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
>>
>> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file
>> in the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my
>> laptop stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair
>> installation but the problem didn't go away.
>>
>> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See
>> attached *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and
>> reopened it.  My files have been replaced by the
>> C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See attached *-2-*.png.)
>>
>> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my
>> other two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- Mark
>>
> ---
> WBR,
> Michael  Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour
>
> "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents
> do not cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche
Author
8 Sep 2006 2:45 PM
Mark Jerde
I did a deinstall / install and the problem still exists.  :-O  It happens
for all users, even a user account that had never run VS 2005 before.
Fortunately the laptop isn't completely dead for development because VS 2005
is working fine in a VPC virtual machine.

Any suggestions how to fix this, short of reformat & reinstall?

Thanks.

   -- Mark


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"Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23Q$wkYs0GHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops, all
> WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
>
> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file in
> the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my laptop
> stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair installation but the
> problem didn't go away.
>
> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See attached
> *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and reopened it.
> My files have been replaced by the C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See
> attached *-2-*.png.)
>
> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my other
> two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
>
>   -- Mark
>
>
>
Author
9 Sep 2006 3:32 PM
Uriah Piddle
Mark,

Not sure if this will help but I had that problem too. I did a repair
reinstall and a removal and reinstall to no avail. Then I remembered that,
before all the troubles, I had deleted the 'Websites' subfolder from my
'Projects' folder because I wanted to put everything in the 'Projects'
folder. So I created the 'Websites' folder again and created and saved an
ASP solution to that folder. The resultant solution showed up in the
Solution Expolorer as a normal solution (no Solution1 (2) nomenclature).
However, I discovered that VS put the code files in the Website folder and
the solution files in the Projects folder. From your post I don't think this
solves the problem but it does suggest that separating the files on ASP
projects might be a design feature of VS and not a bug and that you may not
be able to do what you want no matter what.

Steve









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"Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:OwGkAW10GHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I did a deinstall / install and the problem still exists.  :-O  It happens
>for all users, even a user account that had never run VS 2005 before.
>Fortunately the laptop isn't completely dead for development because VS
>2005 is working fine in a VPC virtual machine.
>
> Any suggestions how to fix this, short of reformat & reinstall?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   -- Mark
>
>
> "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23Q$wkYs0GHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops, all
>> WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
>>
>> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file in
>> the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my laptop
>> stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair installation but the
>> problem didn't go away.
>>
>> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See attached
>> *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and reopened it.
>> My files have been replaced by the C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See
>> attached *-2-*.png.)
>>
>> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my other
>> two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>   -- Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
10 Sep 2006 8:37 PM
Mark Jerde
Uriah -- Glad I'm not the only one...   ;-)

> From your post I don't think this solves the problem but it does suggest
> that separating the files on ASP projects might be a design feature of VS
> and not a bug and that you may not be able to do what you want no matter
> what.

It's working fine on 4 other computers.  It *was* working on the laptop too,
for most of the day, then it went kerfluee.  It's also working fine on a
virtual machine on the laptop.

Hope MS and/or someone else shows up soon.  I don't want to reformat /
reinstall!

Thanks.

   -- Mark

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"Uriah Piddle" <stephenpresc***@msn.com> wrote in message
news:utUEsUC1GHA.328@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Mark,
>
> Not sure if this will help but I had that problem too. I did a repair
> reinstall and a removal and reinstall to no avail. Then I remembered that,
> before all the troubles, I had deleted the 'Websites' subfolder from my
> 'Projects' folder because I wanted to put everything in the 'Projects'
> folder. So I created the 'Websites' folder again and created and saved an
> ASP solution to that folder. The resultant solution showed up in the
> Solution Expolorer as a normal solution (no Solution1 (2) nomenclature).
> However, I discovered that VS put the code files in the Website folder and
> the solution files in the Projects folder. From your post I don't think
> this solves the problem but it does suggest that separating the files on
> ASP projects might be a design feature of VS and not a bug and that you
> may not be able to do what you want no matter what.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:OwGkAW10GHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I did a deinstall / install and the problem still exists.  :-O  It happens
>>for all users, even a user account that had never run VS 2005 before.
>>Fortunately the laptop isn't completely dead for development because VS
>>2005 is working fine in a VPC virtual machine.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to fix this, short of reformat & reinstall?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>   -- Mark
>>
>>
>> "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:%23Q$wkYs0GHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops, all
>>> WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
>>>
>>> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file in
>>> the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my laptop
>>> stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair installation but the
>>> problem didn't go away.
>>>
>>> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See attached
>>> *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and reopened it.
>>> My files have been replaced by the C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!  (See
>>> attached *-2-*.png.)
>>>
>>> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my other
>>> two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
>>>
>>> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>   -- Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
10 Sep 2006 9:32 PM
Uriah Piddle
Mark,

Yes, after your post I gave the matter some more thought and I do not
believe that splitting the files is a design feature of VS after all. I am
working through a book now and the practice code is not split like that. It
started with me when I tried to consolidate all project files into the one
'Projects' folder. I had a website in 'Projects\Websites'. When I moved it
to Projects, I hacked the sln file and shortly after that I noticed the
split folders issue.

As an aside, I set up Norton Ghost 10.0 last spring and have been saving an
image of C:\ every week. So I did a disk restore over this issue. I did not
help the issue but it did restore my disk in only two hours on my RAID-1
computer. With all the stuff on my drive and the configurations, it would
have taken me the better part of a week. So, Ghost really does work.

Steve







Show quote
"Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:OGt75jR1GHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Uriah -- Glad I'm not the only one...   ;-)
>
>> From your post I don't think this solves the problem but it does suggest
>> that separating the files on ASP projects might be a design feature of VS
>> and not a bug and that you may not be able to do what you want no matter
>> what.
>
> It's working fine on 4 other computers.  It *was* working on the laptop
> too, for most of the day, then it went kerfluee.  It's also working fine
> on a virtual machine on the laptop.
>
> Hope MS and/or someone else shows up soon.  I don't want to reformat /
> reinstall!
>
> Thanks.
>
>   -- Mark
>
> "Uriah Piddle" <stephenpresc***@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:utUEsUC1GHA.328@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Mark,
>>
>> Not sure if this will help but I had that problem too. I did a repair
>> reinstall and a removal and reinstall to no avail. Then I remembered
>> that, before all the troubles, I had deleted the 'Websites' subfolder
>> from my 'Projects' folder because I wanted to put everything in the
>> 'Projects' folder. So I created the 'Websites' folder again and created
>> and saved an ASP solution to that folder. The resultant solution showed
>> up in the Solution Expolorer as a normal solution (no Solution1 (2)
>> nomenclature). However, I discovered that VS put the code files in the
>> Website folder and the solution files in the Projects folder. From your
>> post I don't think this solves the problem but it does suggest that
>> separating the files on ASP projects might be a design feature of VS and
>> not a bug and that you may not be able to do what you want no matter
>> what.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:OwGkAW10GHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>I did a deinstall / install and the problem still exists.  :-O  It
>>>happens for all users, even a user account that had never run VS 2005
>>>before. Fortunately the laptop isn't completely dead for development
>>>because VS 2005 is working fine in a VPC virtual machine.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how to fix this, short of reformat & reinstall?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>   -- Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
>>> news:%23Q$wkYs0GHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>> Googled unsuccessfully.  VS 2005 Pro on a laptop and two desktops, all
>>>> WinXP Pro.  (MSDN Universal subscriber. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I use Subversion for version control so I need to have the .sln file in
>>>> the same folder as other parts of the code.  This afternoon my laptop
>>>> stopped handling these correctly.  I did a repair installation but the
>>>> problem didn't go away.
>>>>
>>>> I created a blank solution and added a web site to it.  (See attached
>>>> *-1-*.png.)  Ctrl-F5 works fine.  I closed the solution and reopened
>>>> it. My files have been replaced by the C:\...\(VS8)\...\IDE\ folder!
>>>> (See attached *-2-*.png.)
>>>>
>>>> Next I saved this whole solution in Subversion and tried it on my other
>>>> two machines.  It works fine on both of them.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>>   -- Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
11 Sep 2006 12:00 PM
Mark Jerde
Steve -- Thanks for the Ghost recco.

   -- Mark

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"Uriah Piddle" <stephenpresc***@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uogRpCS1GHA.4924@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Mark,
>
> Yes, after your post I gave the matter some more thought and I do not
> believe that splitting the files is a design feature of VS after all. I am
> working through a book now and the practice code is not split like that.
> It started with me when I tried to consolidate all project files into the
> one 'Projects' folder. I had a website in 'Projects\Websites'. When I
> moved it to Projects, I hacked the sln file and shortly after that I
> noticed the split folders issue.
>
> As an aside, I set up Norton Ghost 10.0 last spring and have been saving
> an image of C:\ every week. So I did a disk restore over this issue. I did
> not help the issue but it did restore my disk in only two hours on my
> RAID-1 computer. With all the stuff on my drive and the configurations, it
> would have taken me the better part of a week. So, Ghost really does work.
>
> Steve

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