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ector
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 Posted - Nov 24 2006 : 4:47:02 PM
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Under Windows Vista, all programs run as a limited user by default even though you're an administrator.
As a results, unless I manually force VS to run as administrator, VA intellisense doesn't seem to work properly. It does not read the default headers into its symbol cache, resulting in tons of redlining and unknown symbols.
I'd suspect a permissions problem, where VA tries to open headers for both read and write but can only get read, and fails. So, VA should only request FILE_READ permissions on the headers it opens to parse. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Nov 24 2006 : 6:18:32 PM
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Are you running a beta version of Vista, or the final version?
We have had various users report using VA on Vista without problems.
I will check into this.
Which IDE and version of VA are you using? |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
Edited by - feline on Nov 24 2006 6:22:47 PM |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Nov 24 2006 : 8:25:20 PM
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| VA X needs read/write permission to its symbol database stored in the VA X installation directory. We suspect this might be an issue if you installed in the default location, c:\\program files. |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - Nov 27 2006 : 11:00:46 AM
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Darren
Tomato Guru
USA
105 Posts |
Posted - Nov 27 2006 : 9:32:53 PM
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| Is UAC (User Account Control) enabled or disabled? |
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ector
New Member
3 Posts |
Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 1:42:05 PM
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UAC enabled, of course.
Running Vista RC2, but the issue should be the same on final.
My suggestion would be storing the symbols not in the Visual Assist directory in Program Files, but in AppData in the user account. Programs are not supposed to store any volatile data in their installation folders. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
18939 Posts |
Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 5:16:55 PM
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| This is what case=169 covers, so it is on the list of things to do. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Darren
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 7:15:35 PM
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| ector, can you confirm that it works with UAC off? I'm running on Vista RTM (UAC enabled) and while i've seen some funkiness it seems to be working. Do you have some simple steps to reproduce? Did you try rebuilding your cache from VAX? |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Feb 23 2007 : 02:53:51 AM
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| Case 169 is fixed in build 1547. |
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Windows Vista issue + suggested fix
