Hi KM,
Initially I thought the component was included for completeness too. However the NG post by Andy implies to me that the "Frontpage
Server Extensions" is not supported on XP Pro or XPe. From Andy's post, discussing the error message that I reported:
"This is from the "FrontPage Server Extensions" component which isn't
supported and won't work properly and should have been End of Life'd i guess
but instead had it's visibility dropped to 50 to prevent you from
inadvertently adding it. It was not supposed to ship with this client
release, as you know there was no componentized version of Windows Server,
so this component is useless." --Andy Allred [MS], 25 Jan 2005
Microsoft still ships it as part of the SP2+FP2007 Xpe component database. I went into XPECMD and dropped visibility to ten, and
then queried the component. I found it. Based on the above post, it seems like MS should probably have deleted it from the XPe
database when FP2007 was released.
There is no component help for it. With a visibility of 50, it should not be pulled into an image, right? And if it was pulled
into someone's design, it is apparently not supported by Microsoft.
If you still feel it should be left in the xp pro emulation SLX file that's ok. It is easy to deal with if the README warns you.
I just wanted to bring Andy's post to your attention. I'm sure that whatever solution go with will work fine.
Bye,
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JimT.
KM said:
jimt,
That is a known issue (well, easy to notice if you run the XPProEmulation image on a target device at least once
).
The time I developed that image the main purpose was to make sure *none* of software components are left out of the config. That
would also include the "Frontpage Server Extensions" component, even though it is not pretty and really annoying to see that
message box during FBA.
If you remove a component from the config, trying to get rid of an annoying message, someone else may be missing that component
functionality trying to get an app working on XPe that requires it (in our case Frontpage or IIS functionality).
Again, although I personally hate that message box and I disabled the "Frontpage Server Extensions" in every single instance of
XPProEmualtion image I created for variety of platforms, I don't think it is a good idea to remove it from the config. Please
keep in mind that the main purpose of the project is to verify if XPe has enough components to satisfy your app static and
dynamic dependencies. In other words, it helps proving your app can run on XPe.
I'll document the fact in the project readme.
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Regards,
KM
Hi,
My target displayed this message during FBA:
"Unable to access configuration for MS personal WebServer"
According to this NG Post:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
From: "Andy Allred [MS]" <
[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:04:16 -0800
Local: Tues, Jan 25 2005 10:04 am
Subject: Re: *Unable to access configuration for MS personal WebServer'
the message comes from the component "FrontPage Server Extensions", and this component should not be used.
The runtime was designed using the xp pro emulation pkg from xpefiles.com. The .SLX file has the component, and it should be
removed.
I used the version of the xp pro emulation proj file that comes with the xpproemulation_186.zip file.
Bye,
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jimt
PS: The above NG post may be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...5c375?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#04eda60ad375c375
