How to lose all your capture sources

[fla]

I lost all of my capture sources on my developer system. After a number of tests I found that the cause was simply the presence of GBPVRBackendCommon.dll in the Plugins directory.

1) Put GBPVRBackendCommon.dll in the Plugins directory
2) Run Config.exe and look at the "Capture Sources Tab"
=No more capture sources and you crash if you try to add any
3) Remove GBPVRBackendCommon.dll from the Plugins directory
4) Run Config.exe and look at the "Capture Sources Tab"
=The capture sources are back

This explains why I couldn't add capture sources in this post fatman_do said he could in his post. The reason that dll ended up there in the first place is stated here.

Sub wouldn't it make sense for gbpvr.exe and config.exe to ignore well known dll's like GBPVRBackendCommon.dll and GBPVRPublic.dll in the plugins directory.

[FirstTeamOPS]

1) Put GBPVRBackendCommon.dll in the Plugins directory

Out of curiosity, why did you put that dll in the plugins directory? I use a few plugins and have never had to move that dll and it doesn't seem like one that should be moved.

Sub wouldn't it make sense for gbpvr.exe and config.exe to ignore well known dll's like GBPVRBackendCommon.dll and GBPVRPublic.dll in the plugins directory.

Anything in the plugins directory it thinks is a plugin.

[sub]

You're not supposed to have these files in that directory. Doing it probably well lead to problems.

There are tons of other things you're not supposed to do that could also cause problems.

[fla]

Out of curiosity, why did you put that dll in the plugins directory?

Read initial the post.

Anything in the plugins directory it thinks is a plugin.

If you push the open roof button on a convertible at highway speeds it makes a choice, I know for sure this will self destruct should I ignore or accept the command?

I will try to look at the various solution/project files. I'm not sure I can change the pre-post build events with visual studio express. There are dozens of project files to look at. I still think it makes sense to ignore well known dll's.

[FirstTeamOPS]

Read initial the post.

OK. I was under the impression you moved them and not VS. Yea, it just doesn't seem that would ever end well.

[sub]

I'll add some special checks to not load these in the next release. Still probably not a good idea to have them there though - could always be unexpected behaviour when .net resolves dependencies.

[bgowland]

I will try to look at the various solution/project files. I'm not sure I can change the pre-post build events with visual studio express. There are dozens of project files to look at.

Are you saying that the project environment for XRecord uses the GB-PVR Plugins folder as the build folder?

If so, you could easily change that (obviously) to being the standard bin\Debug and bin\Release folders then use a batch file to copy 'Post build'.

I use VS2005 C# Express and this is what I'm doing with a solution I'm working on at the moment. It has 4 projects and each project is set with its own PostBuild.bat to copy the relevant binaries where I need them.

EDIT: Alternatively, right-click any external reference DLLs (such as GBPVRPublic.dll), select Properties and set 'Copy Local' to False.

Cheers,
Brian

[fla]

The output path is definitely bin/Release but from the little I know about VS Express they only allow me to see the release properties. I assume the debug properties must have "Program files/devnz/gbpvr/plugins" as the build directory. The creators of these projects obviously had non-express VS versions since I get a popup when opening certain projects about some automated tasks being a security risk "open read-only/or trust the creator of the project and open normally.

Changing the gbpvrbackendcommon.dll to non-copy local works thanks! Can't really check in my Express project since I'm afraid it will have lost some professional VS settings.

How to you build in debug mode with Express? What I do is press F5 "start debugging" (which makes no sense for a dll) which generates an annoying popup error message every time. The side effect is a debug build.

[bgowland]

How to you build in debug mode with Express? What I do is press F5 "start debugging" (which makes no sense for a dll) which generates an annoying popup error message every time. The side effect is a debug build.

To change settings for Debug/Release...

• Go to Tools, Options.

• Select 'Show all settings'

• Expand 'Projects and Solutions' and select 'General'

• Check the box for 'Show advanced build configurations'

• Click OK.

Go to the Build menu - you'll now have a 'Configuration Manager' option. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Brian

[Carlito]

Seems kind of silly to me to have to put in checking not to load certain ddls just because they are well known. I wouldn't put a dll into the plugins directory unless I knew it was a plugin. Being a software developer I don't think i'd waste my time putting this kind of check in.