microsoft.public.frontpage.programming

Greg Chagnon

4/29/2004 3:56:00 PM

Hi Colin,

We've attempted to work the FP3 Interop and came to the conclusion that it is not ready for production development. We not only
experienced a number of problems but in speaking with MS personnel they also admitted they were experiencing the same problems.


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Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97 - '02
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"Colin Bowern" <colin.bowern@nospam.indimensions.com> wrote in message news:OavF57ULEHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I'm working on a Visual Basic .NET application that leverages the FrontPage
> object model to pull information from two remote servers.
>
> When I make a call to the Open method on the Webs object, I pass in a valid
> username and password for the web. However, when the first real method
> against the resulting Web object is executed, the FrontPage window appears
> and prompts the user with the following message:
>
> "You do not have permission to do this operation. Ask your web site
> administrator to change your permissions and then try again, or log on with
> a user account that has this permission. To log on with a different user
> account click OK."
>
> The user account that is passed through the Open method does have sufficient
> permissions (Administrator rights), and if I re-enter the username and
> password in the dialog after clicking OK, it works just fine. I'd like to
> prevent this from popping up if at all possible. Any thoughts on why it
> isn't leveraging the credentials passed in the Open method?
>
> --- Code Snippet ---
> Private _fpApplication As FrontPage.Application
> Private _stagingWeb As FrontPage.WebEx
> ...
> Public Sub Open(ByVal developmentWebUrl As Uri, ByVal stagingWebUrl As Uri,
> ByVal productionWebUrl As Uri)
> ...
> _stagingWeb = _fpApplication.Webs.Open(stagingurl, stagingusername,
> stagingpassword, FrontPage.FpWebOpenFlags.fpOpenNoWindow)
> _productionWeb = _fpApplication.Webs.Open(productionurl,
> productionusername, productionpassword,
> FrontPage.FpWebOpenFlags.fpOpenNoWindow)
> ...
> FillDataSet()
> ...
> End Sub
> ...
> Public Sub FillDataSet()
> ...
> stagingFile = _stagingWeb.LocateFile(folderName + "/" +
> currentFile.Name)
> productionFile = _productionWeb.LocateFile(folderName + "/" +
> currentFile.Name)
> ...
> End Sub
> -----------------------------
>
> Thanks!
> Colin
>
>