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• 01-02-2009, 7:00 AM

  FoxCeb Joined on 08-22-2002, 6:19 PM Northamptonshire, UK Posts 1

  WebDav IIS7, Visual Studio 2008 - Failed to start monitoring changes Reply Contact Hi All, I'm in the process of setting up WebDav on Windows 2008 with a Vista Ulimate client. All is working well except for one issue. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Team edition to open an asp.net web application via a webdav folder, this works completely I can access all the files, modify, delete and eveything except build the project. When I build I get the error Error    1    Failed to start monitoring changes to 'R:\'.        Where R:\ is my mapped webdav drive. I suspect that this may be permissions related but even with opening the share as an Administrator I get the same error... I'm kinda ruuning out of ideas on this one, has anyone else had this issue? Many thanks, Dale

• 01-02-2009, 9:14 AM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 5:41 AM UK Posts 1,236

  Re: WebDav IIS7, Visual Studio 2008 - Failed to start monitoring changes Reply Contact Hi, It is a permissions issue and one which is further complicated by the fact that you are using a mapped drive, which is only available to the user who mapped the drive in the first place - you should be using a UNC path instead, such as \\servername\share and then ensure that you fix the permissions issues. FIX: "Failed to start monitoring directory changes" error message when you browse to an ASP.NET page Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 09-15-2009, 2:40 AM

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  Quazimodo Joined on 11-25-2007, 3:29 PM Posts 2	Re: WebDav IIS7, Visual Studio 2008 - Failed to start monitoring changes Reply Contact This doesn't help much, if you NEED to use a mapped drive. And what, exactly, is the complication, The link you offer is completely unrelated to the matter.

• 09-15-2009, 9:54 AM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 10:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: WebDav IIS7, Visual Studio 2008 - Failed to start monitoring changes Reply Contact Mapped drives only exist in the session of the user who mapped them, so in this case they are only available in your interactive session and not in session 0 where services run - you cannot use mapped drives with IIS. Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server

• 09-27-2009, 11:20 AM

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  Quazimodo Joined on 11-25-2007, 3:29 PM Posts 2

  Re: WebDav IIS7, Visual Studio 2008 - Failed to start monitoring changes Reply Contact Anil, Thanks. That's puts an end to it. There are several write-ups lot on the web on using WebDAV as a replacement for Front Page Server Extensions with IIS 7.0, but it doesn't appear to be so, since VS can't build directly onto the server. Not best practice to do so, but I've done it for years since I manage the sites by myself and they are database driven and that was the easiest way to do it. Moving to IIS 7.0 broke this and it appeared IIS 7.0's new WebDAV extension could fix it. Looks like not. Would DirectAccess work?