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"MIDL1005 -- cannot find cl.exe"  Issue - Where are the global NET2003 Settings kept?

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Paul Bouche - 20 Feb 2004 20:13 GMT
I have recently upgraded from VC6 to NET2003.  So I am a bit unfamiliar
with much of the new terminology and organization.

My NET2003 project was building successfully yesterday afternoon.
I made some configuration tweaks, adding path definitions to Tools -
Options - Projects area.
Suddenly, all of my NET2003 projects are failing to build on that particular
development box.

I restored my project files from configuration store, but this did not
correct the problem.

So NET2003 must be saving some config data in some platform, global store
(registry?)

I am getting:  "command line error MIDL1005 - cannot find C preprocessor
cl.exe"

I EVEN did a full uninstall and reinstall of NET2003 to no avail.

These same project files do compile on my second development box BTW, so the
project files
should be sound.

I compared the Tool - Options - Projects - configuration settings and the
two boxes appear to agree.

Where are the NET2003 global settings stored, and how does one access/manage
them?

Thanks,
Paul
Paul Bouche - 20 Feb 2004 22:23 GMT
Issue solved...

I must have accidentally modified a Tool-Option-Project

-VC++Directory path for executables

from: $(VCInstallDir)bin

to: $(VSInstallDir)bin

Likely everyone in this group already knows this, but...

it seems this configuration data is save in a file called

VCComponents.dat under the path....

c:\Documents and
Settings\usernamexxx\LocalSettings\ApplicationData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.
1 folder.

Since my uninstall and reinstall of NET2003 Studio did not fix this

problem, I presume this hidden storage area was not deleted by the

uninstall. Hence upon re-install, it was still there to trip me up.

Alas.

Thanks for any who may have spent time reading this.

Paul

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