Visual Studio 2008 show only empty sub folders in webside project

[Dieter Pelz]

Hallo,

I have a problem in Visual Studio 2008.

When I open a web side project only the main level shows files. All sub
folders in project explorer are empty.
When I open the side with Expression Web all files will be shown.
The side is hosted in IIS 6.0 on an Windows Server 2003 R2 fully patched.
I already deleted VWDWebCache.

VS is running on Vista64.

Has anyone an idea how to fix this?

Thanks
Dieter

 

[Allen Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Dieter,

My name is Allen Chen. It's my pleasure to work with you on this issue.
Below is my understanding to this issue:

" On machine A (Windows Server 2003 R2) there's a web site.
" On machine B (Vista x64) you use Visual Studio 2008 to open the web site.
You could not see a sub folder in the web site.
" On machine C you use Expression Web to open the web site. You can see the
sub folder.

To investigate this issue I did a test first. The result is, if the log on
user of machine B has no read permission to the sub folder on machine A, I
cannot see the sub folder in Visual Studio either. So my guess is that the
user on the machine B has no sufficient permission to read the folder but
the user on machine C has.

If it's not the cause could you tell me how you add that web site in Visual
Studio 2008? Please provide step-by-step info.

If my understanding is wrong please correct me and clarify your scenario.

Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Support

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[Dieter Pelz]

Hallo Allen,

thanks for your answer.

Machine B and C are the same machine. So it could not be a security problem.
Changes wird Expression Web are also allowed.

Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Web are on the same Vista 64 machine
started with the same user parallel!

I opened the web site with File/Open/Web site/Remote Web
Site/http://xxx/xxxxx
On my notebook also an Vista 64 machine it's the same effect.

When I open the site via a network share it is ok in Visual Studio.

Steps

1.) Startung Visual Studio 2008 and opening.
No sub folders.
IIS-Log:
2009-03-23 18:36:47 192.168.1.x GET /_vti_inf.html - 80 - 192.168.1.yyy
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MS+FrontPage+12.0) 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:36:47 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/_vti_rpc - 80 -
192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:36:47 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll -
80 - 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 5 0
2009-03-23 18:36:47 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll - 80
XXX\YY 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:36:47 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll - 80
XXX\YY 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0

2.) Starting Expression Web (12.0.6211.1000) SP1 MSO(12.0.6320.5000)
Expression Web is showing sub folders
2009-03-23 18:38:56 192.168.1.x GET /_vti_inf.html - 80 - 192.168.1.135
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MS+FrontPage+12.0) 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:38:56 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/_vti_rpc - 80 -
192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:38:56 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll -
80 - 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 5 0
2009-03-23 18:38:56 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll - 80
XXX\YY 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0
2009-03-23 18:38:56 192.168.1.x POST /xxx/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll - 80
XXX\YY 192.168.1.yyy MSFrontPage/12.0 200 0 0

Thanks,
Dieter

 

[Allen Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Dieter,

Thanks for the clarification. I'm now setting up the same environment as
yours to see if I could reproduce this issue. It will take one or two days.
I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Support

 

[Allen Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Dieter,

I did some tests on Vista x64. The server is Windows 2003 R2. I found the
behavior in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is identical to Expression Web SP1.

Could you provide the following information for me to investigate further?

" Do you mean the sub folders can be displayed but it's empty or even the
sub folders are not shown?

" Are you using Visual Studio 2008 SP1?

" What's the edition of your Visual Studio?

" Do you have any Visual Studio Add-ons installed?

" Do you have any third party software installed on your machine? I found
this user met with a similar problem:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1385043.aspx

" Could you provide the Access Control List of a certain sub folder and a
file in it?

" Try to close and reopen Expression Web, can you still see the sub folders
and their contents?

In addition, as a test, please add a new sub folder to your web site, add a
file in it. Give everyone full control to them. Can you see this sub folder
and file in the Visual Studio then?

If there's any third party Visual Studio Add-on or software installed on
your Vista please uninstall them temporarily. It will help to narrow down
this issue.

Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Support

 

[Dieter Pelz]

Hallo Allen,

your link http://forums.asp.net/t/1385043.aspx shows me the right direction.
I had also AnkhSVN installed (Version 2.0.5250.202).
Because the problem was also in Visual Studio 2005 I uninstalled AnkhSVN and
this solved the problem.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks
Dieter

 

[Allen Chen [MSFT]]

Glad to see you have solved this issue.

Thank you for using our Newsgroup Support Service!

Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Community Support



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