Lost Capture Source in Config.

[HenkH]

For the second time today I 'lost' my Capture Source in the Config application. The previous time I just removed and reinstalled gbpvr, but that also required a renewed channel configuration...

In the Config App I'm getting a fatal exception when I want to add a Capture Source, with the message:

Quote[/b] ]************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added.  Key in dictionary: "BDA Recording Plugin"  Key being added: "BDA Recording Plugin"
  at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add)
  at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
  at bg.m(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

The config.exe.log shows (among others):

Quote[/b] ]
0-Mar-05 03:48:14.389 VERBOSE [12] Checking for Lnkx Files in: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Lnkx
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.405 ERROR [12] Error initializing plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\DriverWrapper.dll
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.405 ERROR [12] Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131019.
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.421 ERROR [12]   at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoadImage(Byte[] rawAssembly, Byte[] rawSymbolStore, Evidence evidence, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
  at System.AppDomain.Load(Byte[] rawAssembly)
  at ay..ctor(Boolean serviceMode)
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.436 VERBOSE [12] Found recording source plugin: BDARecordingSource   in: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\GBPVRBackendCommon.dll
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.436 VERBOSE [12] Found recording source plugin: DirectRecordingSource   in: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\GBPVRBackendCommon.dll
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.436 VERBOSE [12] Found recording source plugin: GO7007RecordingSource   in: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\GBPVRBackendCommon.dll
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.468 ERROR [12] Error initializing plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\NativeUtilities.dll
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.468 ERROR [12] Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131019.
20-Mar-05 03:48:14.468 ERROR [12]   at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoadImage(Byte[] rawAssembly, Byte[] rawSymbolStore, Evidence evidence, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
  at System.AppDomain.Load(Byte[] rawAssembly)
  at ay..ctor(Boolean serviceMode)

and

Quote[/b] ]20-Mar-05 03:48:16.343 VERBOSE [12] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
20-Mar-05 03:48:16.358 VERBOSE [12] creating DirectRecordingSource
20-Mar-05 03:48:16.374 VERBOSE [12] Loading DirectRecordingSource Configuration : 1
20-Mar-05 03:48:16.374 ERROR [12] Error int SourceConfigurationContainer::LoadAll(): Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
20-Mar-05 03:48:16.374 ERROR [12] Stack:
  at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
  at j..ctor()
  at j.a()
  at GBPVR.Backend.Common.DirectRecordingSource.a(Int32 A_0)
  at b2.a(Boolean A_0)
20-Mar-05 03:48:16.389 VERBOSE [12] CustomTaskSettings.loadAll()

What's going on....
and which files do I have to backup the next time to reset gbpvr to a 'good' configuration?

[mikey]

Try removing the file C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\plugins\GBPVRBackendCommon.dll. It sounds like this file is being loaded twice and its causing problems. I dont think its supposed to be in the plugins directory.

[HenkH]

Thanks, that did the job.

I'm doing some plugin development and I had the plugin directory set as the target directory for the debug build (to make it easier to debug my plugin). Visual Studio seems to think dependent DLL also have to be in that directory... I removed all unnecessary DLL's from the plugin folder and configured VS to build in its standard directory and to move the targets (the .DLL and .PDB) as a post-build step.

[normanr]

HenkH: If you look at the properties of the Reference in VS, you can change 'Copy Local' to False. This will stop VS copying the dll into the target folder. (I do this in addition to copying the output in a post-build step)

[HenkH]

Thanks, I knew it had to be something simple...