Comments on: VMWare Fusion Shared Folders and Visual Studio Development

By: @OliverOgg

@OliverOgg — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:17:24 +0000

This is just the pain that I have been experiencing, though we are also running a web project. If I follow all of these steps and hit build, or F5 I get:

Parser Error Message: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to ‘Z:\GigJunkie\Web\MooNet.Web\MooNet.Web’.

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:59:20 +0000

@cramsay with just the vs web server I can’t get this to work and run a website, it seems to be permissions based. I haven’t tried it with actual IIS yet, but I will try to investigate that.

Our web development at present is primarily rails, and our .net dev is primarily winforms, so I hadn’t run into the issue naturally.

By: cramsay

cramsay — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:54:23 +0000

I tried it with VirtualBox and got the same kind of problem. Have you actually made this work (IIS & mapped drives on OSX) with VMWare?

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:14:05 +0000

@cramsay hmm. Theoretically it should understand the mapped drive one way or the other, but I have no experience with Parallels, only Fusion. :/

By: cramsay

cramsay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:39:48 +0000

Hmmm, turns out I can’t get this to work with a web project. IIS doesn’t see the mapped drive, and using the UNC path doesn’t work either – I think it could be because Parallels uses “.psf” as the name to share up my Mac.

By: Peter Mounce

Peter Mounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:34:34 +0000

You can get a bit of a boost by telling TortoiseSVN to only care about certain trees; Settings -> Icon Overlays -> Exclude paths & Include paths.

Exclude c:\*
Include c:\_source\*

for example.

By: alwin

alwin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:53:15 +0000

I had to use caspol once, but I couldn’t figure it out, then I found this:

http://mygreenpaste.blogspot.com/2006/03/net-framework-20-configuration-tool.html

And then used the installer from the 4th commenter.

Now I can use mscorcfgwhich is a visual tool added to the configuration panel, same as the one in .net 1.1

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:24:40 +0000

@cramsay

yeah I have a baseline VM for that, I need to redo it with this new thing done so I don’t have to deal with this again.

@steve

oh man I wish I had come across your post in my googling, spot on! woulda saved me hours. Hopefully now there’s two out there for people to see.

By: Steve Strong

Steve Strong — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:58:21 +0000

I had a similar problem – posted about it here: http://blogs.imeta.co.uk/sstrong/archive/2009/01/29/589.aspx – pretty much the same experience as you, hopefully between us folks looking on Google will find the answer!

By: cramsay

cramsay — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:56:02 +0000

I don’t know why I’ve never thought of this before – great post! One thing that this could also enable you to do is have a “baseline” VM snapshot which you can reset to every few days, just to keep it fresh, without having to worry about restoring all of your content, code, etc.