ASP.Net & MS Project 2000 COM

[Bradford Ray]

Hi,

I'm having a frustrating time - we have just moved servers and now the MS
Project application called in ASP.Net times out when calling .SaveAs(). I am
impersonating an administrator user before opening the app, and I have
logged in as that user and run Project, and saved a project. On our other
server everything worked ok.

I've tried adding permissions to the temp directory, and to the directory I
am saving to, for the IUSR_* account, NETWORK SERVICE (because the w3wp.exe
service runs under that user). Write permission is enabled on that folder in
IIS too. As I said, the user running Project is in the Administrators group.

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Comparing the configurations of the 2
machines, I can't really see any differences.

Please help me with what must be a stupid oversight on my part.........

Thanks you,
Brad.

 

[Jake Ropar]

Brad,

The problem might not be with the write permissions, but with the .SaveAs
command. Project was designed to be used with an interactive user, so if you
do a save as and the file already exists, it will throw a user prompt to
overwrite and the application will hang or fail. Make sure you check if the
file already exists before save:

If File.Exists(sFilePath & sFileName) Then
File.Delete(sFilePath & sFileName)
End If
oMSApp.FileSaveAs(sFilePath & sFileName,PjFileFormat.pjMPP)

Its worth a shot.....

Jake