Target Designer stopped working - please help

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Tony

I had to make a change to my network card settings yesterday (to
communicate with a target). After doing that, Target Designer will no
longer compile. I get errors saying that it could not find every file
it tries to include (i.e. all the DLLs, EXEs, etc).

I did not make the network changes myself, but my network guy said
that what he did (got rid of Network Bridge) shouldn't affect SQL
server.

Any ideas of how I can fix this or what I can look at to find out more
information about the problem?

Thanks.
- Tony H.
 
Hi Tony,

You must have at least one network connection live so network sharing drivers keep working.
Try accessing repositories folder from explorer by typing:
\\yourcomputername\repositories

When your network is working you will be able to do this. In your current case you won't be able to do this.

Best regards,
Slobodan
 
Woops... it was a network setup issue.

In case anyone ever runs into a similar problem...
* We are using a standalone PC for XPe development (no network, but does have
a network card)
* We removed "Network Bridge" from "Network And Dial-Up Connections" because
it was keeping us from setting the IP Address of our network card.
* Target Designer no longer worked - gave error 1005 : File Not Found for every
file it tried to include in the build.
* Start > Run > \\yourcomputername\repositories produced an error window
telling me I didn't have access to that share.

Solution:
* Apparently, Shares require a network connection to be present. So we
added a Loopback connection to "Network and Dial-Up Connections" and this
took care of the problem.

- Tony H.
 
Tony,

This is not necessary to have the network present on your dev machine if Repository and SQL server is running on the same machine .
Just change the repository paths to local.

Here is a piece of Rel.Notes for you:
<....

a.. When a network connection is not available, the repository paths must be changed from network shares to local paths. To change
the repository paths, use the following procedure:
1.. Exit all Windows Embedded Studio applications.
2.. Run Component Database Manager.
3.. Select the Repositories tab.
4.. For each repository:
Select the repository.

Choose Change Location.

Change the MachineName/ShareName from a network path to a local path.

5.. Verify that the Move repositories to the new location check box is cleared.
6.. Choose OK.
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