Microsoft Robotic Studio and Vista

[shimirel]

Robotic studio doesnt play well in UAC accounts in windows vista. If you try to run a project you get an error when "connecting to dss". First try using the items on http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/securityfaq/ to open the ports 50000 and 50001 for DSS (using httpreserve).

If that doesn't work you can try changing to port numbers. DSS can run on any port but robotics studio only allows ports in the range of 49152 to 65535. Use httpreserve to reserve the port numbers you want, I tried 49160 and 49161. Then edit the properties for the Run DSS Node link in the start menu. It will look something like

"C:\Users\Shimirel\Microsoft Robotics Dev Studio 2008 Express\bin\DssHost32.exe" /p:50000 /t:50001 /m:"samples\config\UriLauncher.manifest.xml"

and becomes

"C:\Users\Shimirel\Microsoft Robotics Dev Studio 2008 Express\bin\DssHost32.exe" /p:49160 /t:49161 /m:"samples\config\UriLauncher.manifest.xml"

click the link and this should start DSS on the new port numbers. Then in your studio project click Run - Port Settings and update the ports to be your new port numbers. Now if you click run the project you should be able to connect to DSS without any problems.

Hope that helps!

Best Regards,
Richard