Home Access Plus+

[IggyTheSmidge]

I'm having problems with the most recent version of the config wizard.

As soon as I get to the section about which drives to show, I get:



popping up and I can't get any further.

I also notice that the 'My Docs' drive letter resets itself to 'A' instead of 'N'.

This is on server 2k8 on a non-RM network.

Any clues?

[PiqueABoo]

You can tell I like HAP+ coz I'm trying to build it so I have at least a faint hope if I ever need an emergency fix to anything when Nick finally takes a break from that relentless attention, has been abducted by Aliens, was assassinated by a S/W vendor or something.

Can't risk tinkering with my current VS2008 environment so I'm using an XP VM & VSE2010 (just C#, Web Developer) + SilverLight 4 Toolkit April 2010 + Silverlight 4 Tools. Then in WebDev:

1) Threw away version control (Express doesn't cope and offered to do that)
2) Threw away empty HAP.Setup sub-project [edit - this is a deployment project & Express doesn't grok them)
3) Obtained & re-added a ref to AeroWizard
4) Obtained & re-added a ref to the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib
5) Obtained & readded a ref to AjaxControlToolkit
6) Zapped (dropped from latest SDKs etc.) refs to system.web.[ajax|silverlight]

Everything builds except HAP.Web which wants Office refs. I'm all out of steam now.. which MS Office version is it pointing at?

[sister_annex]

easiest way i found piqueaboo is to download the current relase (ZIP) the dlls you need are in the bin folder including the office ones

[PiqueABoo]

The DLLs are in the stuff you throw in inetpub..

::screams::

::goes and bangs head on wall - again::

Course they are. That is just so very, very obvious (with hindsight) isn't it?

Oh well - blame end of term burnout and all that... oh and that longstanding habit I've got of htmerging non-standard assemblies into dotNet things I make to uhh.. eliminate the risk of someone losing or not finding depedencies (I just like flinging code around in one "self-contained" file).


PS: Just started again with fresh copy of source. All missing refs were sorted out from the release bin folder except for Microsoft.Office.Core which I just zapped. It all built.

[sister_annex]

PS: Just started again with fresh copy of source. All missing refs were sorted out from the release bin folder except for Microsoft.Office.Core which I just zapped. It all built.

I have done the same, i've not coded in C# before (vb.net is my thing) nor silverlight so thought it may be a good one to play with

Just out of interest how did you get it to compile in vs2008 I had to try butcher it to work with 2010 express which didin't like the custom controls

[nickbro]

There's some stuff that only works in 2010 (e.g. silverlight 4 SDK tools)

[PiqueABoo]

how did you get it to compile in vs2008

Ooops - was definitely having an off-day - critical typo above now corrected. I did it all in a virtual machine where I installed bits of the Visual Studio Express 2010 "suite" which was just C# and Web Developer (*without* the SQL it offers to install by default for both of them).

Don't think I'll be upgrading my normal dev environment for a while e.g. until there's a 2010 SP1 - I've had Web Dev 2010 Express just crash a couple of times.

[nickbro]

Any one got an feature suggestions for HAP+, I'm getting a little board with nothing to do over the summer hols.

[PiqueABoo]

I'll assume you're serious and pitch it straight: I would consolidate what's there now, rather than add much new. You or other folk might have different ideas about the pros/cons, but things I would personally like to see:

- A 'My Favourites' folder icon (the shell32 star) because I've put that inside a user's My Documents.

- UI "semantics" #1: Ability to call it something other than "My Computer" in the various places where that's done. For some folk I suspect the name will need something to indicate it isn't their local 'My Computer" - dunno "My Computer @ School" or something.

- UI "semantics" #2: In Web file browser change first level down "Back to My Computer" to the same ".." "Up a level" you get in any of the sub-folders. [Not sure that's the correct text].

- Silverlight (beta) & UI "semantics" #3: Finish that and for bonus points see if you can make treeview icons look like familiar Explorer open/closed folders.

- If you're really bored, you could enumerate sub-folder permissions and use that folder+padlock icon to indicate sub-folders where the user doesn't have access.

[nickbro]

I'll assume you're serious and pitch it straight: I would consolidate what's there now, rather than add much new. You or other folk might have different ideas about the pros/cons, but things I would personally like to see:

- A 'My Favourites' folder icon (the shell32 star) because I've put that inside a user's My Documents.

Will do

- UI "semantics" #1: Ability to call it something other than "My Computer" in the various places where that's done. For some folk I suspect the name will need something to indicate it isn't their local 'My Computer" - dunno "My Computer @ School" or something.

"My School Computer" maybe?

- UI "semantics" #2: In Web file browser change first level down "Back to My Computer" to the same ".." "Up a level" you get in any of the sub-folders. [Not sure that's the correct text].

I'll be removed in the Silverlight Browser as the tree removes the need for it, and the breadcrumbs remove the need for it in the HTML version.

- Silverlight (beta) & UI "semantics" #3: Finish that and for bonus points see if you can make treeview icons look like familiar Explorer open/closed folders.

Now that is a nice thing to do

- If you're really bored, you could enumerate sub-folder permissions and use that folder+padlock icon to indicate sub-folders where the user doesn't have access.

Getting NTFS permissions is difficult, but I'll try. I'm not dealing with NTFS permissions, instead relying on the IDENTITY IMPERSONATE part of .net

[nickbro]

You'll be happy to know that all, bar the last item, have now been completed, and checked into codeplex source control. I'll release it on the weekend. It's working rather well

[nickbro]

If anyone can figure out a easy way of reading NTFS permissions in C#, then I'm all ears.

[SYNACK]

This does so in C++ SetACL: Windows ACL management | Download SetACL: Windows ACL management software for free at SourceForge.net and localzuk made a permission setter in C# here Setting folder owners programatically and here Mass setting NTFS permissions .

Reading in the permissions should be very simmilar.

[PiqueABoo]

Oh that does look good now - it's funny how having those folders makes the difference, but if it does that for me and I'm pretty sure it will make a critical difference some users (I'll likely be putting this on a few Primaries for the autumn term and see how they get on).

If anyone can figure out a easy way of reading NTFS permissions in C#

I've only ever done that for AD, but it looks much the same for NTFS and sadly I don't think there is a very easy way... it's all trawling through DACLs looking at ACEs (their trustee SID, access flags & masks) and to make matters worse one trustee can feature in several ACEs. It's probably simpler to just try and do [something] in a sub-folder and see if you get some access denied exception (if I click on a sub-folder where I don't have access I get an Unauthorised Access page back now - is it possible or too expensive to do something like that when enumerating the parent folder's contents?).

Thinking aloud: Would you actually bother to display sub-folders they can't do anything with? I think probably yes, because it's consistent with what they see when working on the domain... well unless someone has configured ABE on their domain.

[nickbro]

Thanks PiqueABoo. I'll have a think about how to do that, and hopefully implement it. The ".." up folder will hopefully go when I get the drag and drop working into the tree on the side.