Ramble

My day job requires me to use both Perl and C#. My prefered development environment is on my Macbook. When hacking Perl, I use TextMate, but for my C# work, I need to use Visual Studio. Luckily, VMWare Fusion lets me run the dreaded Micro$oft IDE when I need it. Since our source code is all in a Subversion repository, and since I already checked out my code on the Mac, I thought why not just open and edit my Visual Studio solutions off of the shared network folder that Fusion creates? That way, I can run Visual Studio in Unity mode and use the command-line Subversion tools in Terminal.app. However, this has not worked out as I had hoped.

Creating a mapped drive letter to my networked volume is easy. I have read/write access to the files on my Mac via this networked volume. But, I encounter two problems.

First, when trying to open a Solution file within Vistual Studio 2005 that is stored on a network volume, it will give me this error about the project location being untrusted:

Now, this error is easily banished with a simple caspol invocation on the command line:

caspol -m -ag 1.2 -url urlname FullTrust

Just replace “urlname” with the full UNC path as in “\\\\Some\\Path\\*” and remember to include the “*” at the end.

The real problem I am having is when I try to run a project. It compiles just fine, the ASP.NET Development Server starts up, and my Web browser opens up trying to load the .aspx page. But, I always get a server error message that says “failed to start monitoring changes…” like this:

If I use TortiseSVN to check-out the files directly onto the virtual hard drive, everything works without incident. I’d really prefer to avoid duplicating files on the virtual hard drive, if I can help it. Does anyone out there in Blogging Land have a solution to this issue or even know exactly what is causing it?