Thread: Visual Studio 2005 + Offline

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    Visual Studio 2005 + Offline

    I have a C++ project developed under visual studio 2005 and on a network drive. When I am connected to the network drive, I can compile and run my project. When I am offline and have all the project files available offline using "make available offline" feature of windows XP, I get several C1083 errors about files not being found. I can see the files and open the files in Visual Studio. Has anyone else faced this problem before? If yes, what is the best way to fix this?

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    At a guess, use the 'subst' command line command to map the network drive letter to the directory where the offline files are stored.
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    I tried with 'subst'. It is still giving the same error messages.

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    Could anyone please help me with this?

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    Have you applied the patch to VS 2005?
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    if you can't find help here, try the msdn forums.

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    Dunno, the amount of information on exactly what was tried is non existent.

    Like for example, an actual path on the network drive,
    The include search directories listed in the IDE,
    The directory where the local copies are stored,
    The 'subst' command entered.

    If, for example the real network file is
    v:\path\to\lib\mylib.h
    and the search path in the IDE is
    v:\path\to\lib

    If you copy the files to say
    c:\local\vdrive\path\to\lib\mylib.h
    then
    subst v: c:\local\vdrive
    should be the thing

    ie,
    more v:\path\to\lib\mylib.h

    should work in both cases. If it doesn't, you're doing it wrong.
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    Thanks for all the help. It seems the patch did the trick.

    I did learn several other concepts from the replies. Thanks to everyone, especially hk_mp5kpdw who suggested the application of SP1.

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