Component Designer INF file import failure

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Hello,
Has anyone seen this dialog while trying to import an INF file into
Component Designer:

"File import failed due to unspecified error while processing file
blahblah.inf".

After I click OK, Component Designer hangs and I have to kill it with Task
Manager.

I suppose I could start out with a single line INF file, import it, add the
second line, import again etc. until I find the offending line. If only
Component Designer acted like a C compiler and reported an error code with a
line number ...

Thanks
Jack
 
Jack said:
Hello,
Has anyone seen this dialog while trying to import an INF file into
Component Designer:

"File import failed due to unspecified error while processing file
blahblah.inf".

After I click OK, Component Designer hangs and I have to kill it with
Task Manager.

I suppose I could start out with a single line INF file, import it,
add the second line, import again etc. until I find the offending
line. If only Component Designer acted like a C compiler and
reported an error code with a line number ...

Thanks
Jack
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I haven't run into that. If you want to send me the INF, I'll try to figure
it out for you.
 
Gordon -
Thanks for the offer to look at the INF file. It turned out that the
problem wasn't with the INF file, it's something with our development
environment.

We have a server set up that hosts the databases and we can do our
development right from that machine. I also have the tools (CD, TD and CDM)
installed on my desktop machine. If I import the INF file on the server,
it's fine. If I try to import the INF file from my desktop, I get the
"unspecified error" from CD. But everything else I've done with CD from my
desktop works fine. I suppose the "unspecified error" is something network-
or SQL-related, and not worth diagnosing any further considering how
infrequently I need to import an INF file.

It still would be nice if you got an informative error message from CD
though - "you don't have admin rights on the SQL server" or something to that
effect.

Thanks
Jack
 
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