VS2008 with Site on Shared Folder

[Mike Bronner]

Hi All,

I have set up Parallels mainly to do .NET development for my Windows-based clients. I am attempting to set up my development environment using Visual Studio Express Web Developer 2008 on my Parallels Desktop, and setting up my site files and folders on the shared drive, so that they reside on my MAC, and thus get backed up with TimeMachine (hugely important).

Now, the problem I'm running into seems to be some permissions issue, as I am getting the error when building the site:

Error 2 Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\Documents\Web Projects\PSO\Sites\main_new'.

How can I give the ASP.NET worker process permissions on the shared folder?

Thanks!
-Mike

 

[VBR]

Hello,

Visual Studio uses UNC path for the file and Parallels uses .psf for it’s hostname…which is not a valid hostname for Visual Studio. Hence Windows/Visual Studio was having trouble parsing this hostname.

Mapping the share to a drive letter and then opening the file from that drive should solved the problem.

 

[Mike Bronner]

Hi VBR,

Thanks for the reply. Indeed, I figured that out as well, after some trying. That's when I got this specific error (prior to that I couldn't even create a new web project).

That being said, the only way I was able to get things to work was to create an SMB shared directory on the MAC side, then map that share to a drive letter, and access it that way. Things appear to be working. I would consider this a work-around, perhaps not quite a solution, since it would be simpler (and more intuitive) to access files on the MAC through the Shared Folder functionality.