Amazon Movie Collection Starter Kit

Amazon Movie Collection Starter Kit

• Praveen Bala

  Hi Opher,
  
  So, it sounds like you have saved the download version to My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic.  In that case, if you Create a New Project, and click on the Visual Basic node in the left pane, then that template will show up in the bottom half of the right pane (in a section called "My Templates").  Click on the Movie Collection icon there, and you should get the project that you want.
  
  Please keep in touch and let me know how the Movie Collection works out for you (lisafeig@microsoft.com).  Also, let me know if you happen to be using VB Express, in which case the New Project dialog will look different.
  
  Thanks!
  
  ~ Lisa Feigenbaum
  VB Program Manager
  

• Jayadev

  Hi Derrick,
  
  That's good news that you found a workaround, and thanks for the extra info.
  
  If you have time, please file a bug here, http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ and tell us the number.  We're following up on our side as well.
  
  I'm interested to hear what you think of the starter kit.  Hope you enjoy.
  
  Paul
  

• Adrijan

  I posted a bug report at the Product Feedback website. I also posted a workaround based on the information I posted here.
  
  I really like the Starter Kit. Although, I'm having some trouble getting it to work through a proxy server. I've made some modifications to the code to add a WebProxy with Credentials to the web service, but it still doesn't work fully.
  
  Anyway, I do like the starter kit. I would consider myself and intermediate to advanced developer using VS 2003 and this starter kit is great for giving me a place to get started looking at the new features of VS2005.
  
  Thanks.
  

• SivaRaja MSFT

  Well, this might be easy for some, but something screwy is going on with my system.  I found/removed the existing ZIP file and brought the Amazon ZIP file into the same directory.  VS continues to open new projects using the OLD Starter Kit.  I know this is the old one because the Web Resources folder does not exist.
  
  How can I find what VS is pointing to
  
  Thanks,
  Opher
  
  

  
  

• Mark Pemberton

  I actually got it to work. But I think the error message was a little misleading.
  
  The problem is that my "My Documents" folder on my development machine (it's acutally a Virtual Machine on VS2005) is redirected to a Network Drive. When I changed it to be on the Local Disk the Starter Kit installed without a problem.
  
  I imagine that the problem had something to do with code access security, running a program from a "not fully trusted" location.
  
  The problem maybe not so much not being able to install it on a network drive as much as it is getting a useful error message...

  
  

• MarkCrowley

  Hi Derrick,
  
  Thanks for reporting this.  There is actually an easy way to uninstall the existing MovieCollection template.  If you navigate to the following directory, you can delete (or otherwise remove) the existing zip file.  Here's the directory path: My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic
  
  Please let us know if that works for you.  In the meantime, we'll investigate the intial problem you ran into.
  
  Thanks!
  Lisa Feigenbaum
  Visual Basic Program Manager
  

• Maine

  Hi,     My ProjectTemplates/VisualBasic folder is empty and i can't install the Web version of the Starter kit. I'm using a non-english version of windows, will that have anything to do with this problem    Thanks in advance

  
  
  
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