Background: I'm trying to edit an AX Report in Visual Studio. I have previously been able to create reports in VS and integrate them into AX. But I haven't used this in several weeks. Now, suddenly it doesn't work anymore.
Symptoms: When I open Visual Studio the Application Explorer does not show our actual AOS but instead says "Default (cus) [CUS Model]". update: As it turns out the Application Explorer does connect to the right AOS. It just displays this default name (and now since resetting VS user data is fixated on the USR-layer)
Attempted solutions:
Setting /AxConfig parameter in Visual Studio shortcut. I have the exact same shortcut as my coworker who does not have this problem
Editing the Ax Config via AxCliCfg.exe
Importing, Applying, Refreshing and Re-Applying the .AXC file used to connect the AX client
Editing the registry keys for AxCliCfg both in LOCAL_MACHINE and CURRENT_USER
A ton or restarting
Checking permissions and roles in Ax, AOS Server, DB Server
I can't find anything else besides reinstalling everything. I've seen one reference to a KB2827469 that supposedly changes the way Visual Studio loads the AX configuration but can't find anything about that KB on microsoft's websites.
Related
I downloaded and installed Telerik's WinForms components demo and removed it later. However, the VS extension that adds the Telerik menu in the main menu system was not removed correctly. After deinstallation, my VS started to display about 10 message boxes at startup telling that Telerik assemblies like Telerik.WinControls.VSPackage.2018.1.115.1 cannot be loaded. Here is the corresponding part of the VS startup log (the ActivityLog.xml file viewed in the browser):
I asked Telerik's support about this problem and posted a message on their community forums, but nobody has answered yet - even after several days.
Having no answer, I tried to find all remnants of the problem extension in VS folders and the system registry and cleaned all what I found, but VS is still trying to load some "tails" of this non-existing Telerik extension.
Is there a way to trace and clear all remnants of a VS extension left by its uninstaller (manually or automatically using a tool)?
I got an answer to my question from the Telerik team:
Visual Studio 2017 uses its own private registry to store this king of
information -
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_8ab640ac\privateregistry.bin.
Removing this file should resolve the issue on your side. The file
will be auto-generated by Visual Studio once it is launched.
Note: You if choose to delete the file your personal preferences
regarding the Visual Studio IDE environment will be reset to the
default ones and you may need to set up them in the Options dialog.
Frankly speaking, I could not try what they suggested. I suddenly discovered that my instance of VS no longer tries to load any Telerik assembly at startup. I think it happened after upgrading to the latest version 15.5.7, which was done with the administrator privileges. I earlier launched VS with admin rights several times, and as I saw, some problem Telerik entries (but not all) were cleared by VS automatically in this mode. It seems, VS can heal itself in the admin and/or upgrade mode.
I would like to connect my Visual Studio against different dynamics ax environments.
In particular the following two:
Development Environment
Production Environment
The purpose is to develope SSRS reports. In the production environments there are some reports which are not available in development and it would be complicated to create them. Not meaning that I'm going to develop against production (who would do such a thing?! ;-) ).
I found a tutorial which shows how to connect to a specific AOS by pointing visual studios start up parameter to an AXC file:
Tutorial for VS connection to specific AOS
When I follow the steps from the tutorial and open AX it seems that VS has connected to the correct AOS instance. See the following screenshot, showing two AOS instances one connected to Development the other to Production:
Also when I open the report from Production and from Development I can see that they are different in design, because there have been made some changed in Development.
Problem is: When I try to open a report with sample data, it always fetches the data from my Development environment. I also noticed that the SSRS report parameter #AX_UserCompany is always the company from my AX user settings in Development.
I know that VS is using my active directory user to authenticate against the AOS, but why is it always using the Development settings, even when VS is started with the Production AXC file as startup?
My question is: How is it possible, that VS pulls the SSRS report design from Production but the data from Development and what has to be done to retrieve both (Design and Data) from Production?
Any input is appreciated.
I could finally solve the mystery.
It seems that Visual Studio is always using the connection properties stored in registry. Although the report design is loaded from AX instance specified in the AXC file, the data is pulled from the AX instance specified in the registry.
The solution is to
open the Dynamics AX Configuration Utility
import the AXC file
apply the AXC File
refresh the configuration
apply again
Before you start, close AX and VS (just to be on the save side).
1. open the Dynamics AX Configuration Utility
Located in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\BusinessConnector\Bin\AxCliCfg.exe".
2. import the AXC file
Browse to your AXC file and import it.
3. apply the AXC File
4. refresh the configuration
5. apply again
Switch to the connection tab.
Then click apply.
Then click refresh the configuration. The WCF configuration will be regenerated.
Then click apply again.
Of course this means that you can not have two VS instances open at the same time (e.g. one connected to production and one to development). You are limited to one configuration, because of the connection properties set in the registry.
You still need two VS shortcuts:
One VS shortcut with the AXC file to development
One VS shortcut with the AXC file to production
If you want to switch between environment you need to follow step 1. to 5.
Can you close the application explorer before closing VS? Then reopen VS with your shortcut and the application explorer.
I had the issue modifying the client and BC confits not changing the target for VS.
Problem
I'm using VisualStudio 2012 Ultimate v11.0.50727.1 Update 4 and VisualStudio 2013 Ultimate v12.0.21005 EL and I'm able to connect to TFS through any browser. But suddenly I can't connect to TFS at xxxxx.VisualStudio.com from within VisualStudio anymore. Yesterday I easily did a Check-In at work with the same account. but I can't connect to TFS at home.
This is the URL I'm using: (I've tried changing it a bit like adding /tfs or /DefaultCollection)
I'm stuck with this, I've tried different ways but none have worked so far and it's still giving me these errors: TF31002, TF300324 and TF205020
TF31002 (this error happens when trying to Add a new server)
TF205020: Could not connect to server ‘https://xxxxxx.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection’. This server was used in your last session, but it might be offline or unreachable. Confirm that the server is available on the network. To attempt to connect again, or to a different server, click ‘Connect To Team Foundation Server’ in Team Explorer or the Team menu.
TF400324: Team Foundation services are not available from server https://xxxxxx.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection.
Technical information (for administrator):
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
(The last 2 errors happen when VisualStudio is trying to login to tfs)
I've tried these:
Go to VisualStudio.com and Sign out from all browsers
Delete Cookies and Caches of IE10 (and test when IE has signed in to visualstudio.com or signed out of it)
Go to Regedit and set the DWORD to 0 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\TeamFoundation\Instances
Browse to %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache and delete everything
Delete all credentials from Windows Credential Manager (and remove Link Online ID)
Installed VS2013
Installed Team Explorer 2013
Installed VS2012 Update 4
Installed a fresh copy of Windows 8
What I want.
After some long and desperate time of trying to connect to TFS online, Now I'm just looking for a way to Check-in my changes. (doing it by hand is not an option because there's a large number of changes and I can't even know which files are changed since last check-in)
I just saw this link and it totally worked for me after nothing else would: http://www.cnblogs.com/CuteNet/p/3556276.html
regedit:
Close all instances of Visual Studio 2013
Delete this folder in the registry (just “TokenStorage” – nothing else):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSCommon\12.0\ClientServices\TokenStorage
I had similar issue where I couldn't connect (TF31002) to TFS 2010 using VS 2010, 2012 and 2013 on my laptop but can connect from web and other servers just fine.
I tried almost all suggestions given by various sources online but had no luck.
I was getting ready to reimage tha laptop but as one last try I started comparing config's between another virtual machine (where the connection was successful) to my laptop. I found that in my laptop I have additional defaultProxy settings in 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config’
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy autoDetect="false" bypassonlocal="false" proxyaddress="http://XXX.X.X.X:XXXX" usesystemdefault="false"/>
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
After deleting the above node completely I was able to connect to TFS 2010 successfully.
Hope this helps.
I've found a way to check-in all changes of the home computer at work computer.
Copy the local TFS folder from home computer (including the hidden $tf subfolder) to work computer.
Install Team Foundation Sidekicks for 2012
Search for the home computer name
Click on Update Workspace Computer Name
Go to Source Control Explorer and open Workspaces...
Check Show remote workspaces checkbox (if the home workspace is not shown)
Edit the home workspace
Remove current mapping
Map $/ to the local folder (which has $tf)
When click on Advanced It should look like this:
Switch to the new Workspace and done!
It seems to me that private workspace is what causing the problem, and I will try to change it to public after I checked in.
Edit
I've found another workaround which requires no workspace hacks. (This method is originally designed for recovering from wrong check-ins)
In Source Control Explorer select root (collection, not project)
click Compare folders
in source version section choose the latest safe version
in target path section browse to the not-checked-in folder
make sure both paths end with same name (e.g. $/MyProj and E:\FromHome\TFS\MyProj)
(set any additional settings...) and click OK
DoubleClick on files with different value of Yes and write down the names of those file that should be loaded from local folder (right part of screen probably shows local)
Open those files from Solution Explorer and overwrite them with local files
I faced the same issue few days back
1. Disable your firewall(not recommended)
2. Run VS 2013 in admin mode.
3. Disable antivirus or add TFS in whitelist.
4. Select connect to TFS and create a new project in another directory (Local copy)
5. Check the directory for access(Read only by default change the permissions)
6. try to check in now.
After changing the permissions to the local directory i was able to check in my changes.
I was having the same issues using Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and for me the problem was Anti-Virus software (Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8). See this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dstfs/archive/2014/07/24/can-t-connect-to-visual-studio-online-from-any-version-of-in-vs-quot-the-underlying-connection-was-closed-an-unexpected-error-occurred-on-a-send-quot.aspx
Check your URL first!
I had a problem with such URL:
https://domain-name.com
Turns out that symbol "-" where replaced with some special char . But Visual Studio 2012(2013) did not indicate that anyhow. Apparently it was not able to find such domain. As result same issue TF31002 and a day spent in research.
I was having a similar problem with Visual Studio Premium 2013 connecting to our project from inside VS. It kept returning TF31002, but I could access it with a browser.
From the browser I went to Home->Activities->Open New instance of Visual Studio and my tfs project loaded right into the Team Explorer frame.
Hope that helps.
I had the same issue when I wanted to connect to the TFS with Visual Studio. This solved my problem:
I used a VPN connection to the server
I used the ip address instead of the link given by the TFS (http://"ip address":8080/tfs instead of http://"link":8080/tfs)
I am Visual Studio 2010 Professional user. But for a reason I need Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.
I downloaded this, but I need the serial key to activate the product, otherwise it will expire in 30 days.
When I go there, I got this error:
"Thank you for your interest in registering Visual Studio. We are currently experiencing issues with the registration process. We are working on this and will have it fixed as soon as possible. Please try to register your product again at a later time. We apologize for the inconvenience."
I tried for a long time, but I got the same error every time. Is there any other way to get the serial key?
I have an improvement on the answer #DewiMorgan gave for VS 2008 express. I have since confirmed it also works on VS 2005 express.
It lets you run the software without it EVER requiring registration, and also makes it so you don't have to manually delete the key every 30 days. It does this by preventing the key from ever being written.
(Deleting the correct key can also let you avoid registering VS 2015 "Community Edition," but using permissions to prevent the key being written will make the IDE crash, so I haven't found a great solution for it yet.)
The directions assume Visual C# Express 2008, but this works on all the other visual studio express apps I can find.
Open regedit, head to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VCSExpress\9.0\Registration.
Delete the value Params.
Right click on the key 'Registration' in the tree, and click permissions.
Click Advanced...
Go to the permissions tab, and uncheck the box labeled Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here.
In the dialog that opens, click copy.
Note that in Windows 7 (and 8/8.1, I think), it appears the copy button was renamed to add, as in add inherited permissions as explicit permissions.
In Windows 10, it appears things changed again. #ravuya says that you might have to manually re-create some of the permissions, as the registry editor no longer offers this exact functionality directly. I don't use Windows very much anymore, so I'll defer to them:
On Win10, there is a button called "Disable Inheritance" that does the same thing as the checkbox mentioned in step 5. It is necessary to create new permissions just for Registration, instead of inheriting those permissions from an upstream registry key.
Hit OK in the 'Advanced' window.
Back in the first permissions window, click your user, and uncheck Full Control.
Do the same thing for the Administrators group.
Hit OK or Apply.
Congratulations, you will never again be plagued by the registration nag, and just like WinRAR, your trial will never expire.
You may have to do the same thing for other (non-Visual C#) programs, like Visual Basic express or Visual C++ express.
It has been reported by #IronManMark20 in the comments that simply deleting the registry key works and that Visual Studio does not attempt to re-create the key. I am not sure if I believe this because when I installed VS on a clean windows installation, the key was not created until I ran VS at least once. But for what it's worth, that may be an option as well.
The question is about VS 2008 Express.
Microsoft's web page for registering Visual Studio 2008 Express has been dead (404) for some time, so registering it is not possible.
Instead, as a workaround, you can temporarily remove the requirement to register VS2008Exp by deleting (or renaming) the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/VCExpress/9.0/Registration
To ensure that this is working beforehand, click Help -> register product within VS2008.
You should see text like
"You have not yet registered your copy of Visual C++ 2008 Express
Edition. This product will run for 10 more days before you will be
required to register it."
Close the application, delete that key, reopen, click help->register product.
The text should now say
"You have not yet registered your copy of Visual C++ 2008 Express
Edition. This product will run for 30 more days before you will be
required to register it."
So you have two options - delete that key manually every 30 days, or run it from a batch file that also contains a line like:
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress\9.0\Registration /f
[Edit: User #i486 confirms on testing that this workaround works even after the expiration period has expired]
[Edit2: User #Wyatt8740 has a much more elegant way to prevent the value from reappearing.]
Getting a product key is free. Here is how I did it:
I just downloaded the 2012 Express install ISO image. After install I got the message "This product will expire in 30 day(s). Registration is required for the continued use of Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web."
On that same screen is a register online link. Clicking that I signed in with my live account, updated my profile, and got a registration key.
Visual C# Express 2005 ISO File does not require registration
I believe that if you download the offline ISO image file, and use that to install Visual Studio Express, you won't have to register.
Go here and find the link that says "All - Offline Install ISO image file". Click on it to expand it, select your language, and then click "Download".
Otherwise, it's possible that online registration is simply down for a while, as the error message indicates. You have 30 days before it expires, so give it a few days before starting to panic.
My issue is that I cannot add SourceSafe Database for source control within Visual Studio 2010.
Our team was initially using VSS for source control in Visual Studio 2010. During an evaluation of TFS, I switched my source control to TFS. It will be a few weeks before a decision is made on TFS, so I needed to switch my source control back to VSS. However I'm now unable to add a SourceSafe Database in Visual Studio.
Steps to Reproduce in Visual Studio 2010:
1) Access the 'Open SourceSafe Database' form via Tools->Options->Source Control->Plug-in Settings-->Advanced
or via File->Source Control
2) The list of available database is blank so I choose 'Browse'.
3) I browse to the srcsafe.ini file for my VSS database and select it.
4) I'm promted to confirm the Database Name - Click OK.
5) The database does not appear in the 'Open SourceSafe' Database form. The list of available databases is still blank.
Note that I can add the database fine outside of Visual Studio using VSS directly. However the databases I add via VSS do not appear in the Visual Studio forms.
I'm suspicious that this is related to "down-grading" from TFS to VSS which may not have been heavily tested at MS.
Any assistance is appreciated.
I installed VS2010, then i install VSS, then i have the same problem, cant connect to my VSS it by default opens (TFS)
the suggestion here, to reinstall, dont sound good, did a bit more searching and found this:-
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vssourcecontrol/thread/6c927805-bca6-445b-b406-0a0da8fa21d3
and found the easy solution that 'CletusLoomis' is looking for:
simply:-
hanks for your post.
Could you please try the following steps?
Open VS2010, then choose the menu: Tools->Options, then click "Souce Control"
click drop-down box under text"Current souce control plug-in", use "None", rather than "Microsoft Visual Source Safe"
thats it, problem solved!
:)
hope this helps someone else who found this page via google.
To do that you must run Visual Studio 2010 as Administrator. Just click on Icon using right button, Go to Properties, Compatibility, at the botton of screen you should mark Run this program as administrator.
That's all.
Must exist some file that the permission should be granted to all users, but instead of searching for the file, I preffer this solution.
Regards,
Luiz Ricci
My Visual Studio 2010 had very similar symptoms: having selected Visual SourceSafe 2005 in the Options I had the only menu option: Launch Microsoft SourceSafe
While following the steps provided by 'visual' (as of Nov 30 '10 at 8:00) I have found the following registry key, which needs to be switched to 0 to enable the SourceSafe menu options to be displayed in Visual Studio 2010. Once the registry key value has been changed to zero Visual Studio needs to be restarted and .. voila! Now I have an additional menu option Open from source control...
The registry key is as follows (for 32bit OS it would need to be slightly modified): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SourceSafe\Namespace Extension\DisableOpenFromSourceControl
Now, why it was disabled by default is beyond me.
Your installation of VS might be corrupted. I would recommend uninstalling VSS, VS, and TFS and then reinstalling VS and VSS. Unfortunately, this could take 4+ hours, but it should fix your issue.
I don't believe that my VS installation was corrupted. I do believe there is a bug in VS 2010 which does not allow me to use VSS for source control after having used TFS. Fortunately for me, our team decided to go forward with TFS for our project's source control. I never had to solve the problem. I believe that reinstalling Visual Studio alone would have been enough to solve the issue.
I had the same problem with Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and VSS. I noticed several things:
VSS as standalone program does always work on my system.
VSS works perfectly in my projects, if the UAC Level is the lowest, but not with the default UAC Level.
If I open a project file with VSS source control, Visual Studio tries to read the registry. It fails to read/write the keys in the registry with access denied. Therefore I changed the permissions in the registry of the SourceSafe keys to full access for all users. Now, VSS works perfectly on my system with default UAC security level.
I faced the same problem.
I am using Visual Studio 2010 and my projects added to Visual SourceSafe 6.0
The VSS database list was not prompted on my machine as well.
After a number of attempts for over 3 hours. Finally got a solution.
I run the VS2010 using Run As Administrator option. The VSS database list was visble.
I think the issue might be due to Access Rights of Registry in Windows 7.
What a nightmare this has been. Ultimately, you can set in domain or local policy.
Local Security Policy\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode - Disabled
This means anyone in the administrator group does not have to have approval (The Dreaded Run as Administrator)to be an administrator. Can be set locally as above or domain wide. Solved a lot of problems for us.
Options -> Source Control -> Make sure the "Current Source Control Plugin" is correctly set.
Mine was set to Microsoft Visual Source Safe (Internet), and should have been Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
First, make sure you can view the database by visual source safe explorer.
Then, trying to proceed with these step...
Open Visual studio as Administrator.
Log in visual source safe by the database path. (it still disappears the database in "Available database" list.)