Sunday, July 18, 2004
Zone Alarm and Visual Studio .Net
I spent a few hours trying to figure out why I can't create a web service in Visual Studio .Net 2k3. I even reinstalled Visual Studio but that didn't solve the problem. Everytime Visual Studio would give the following error:
Looking on Zone Alarm's support website I ended up on this thread according to which they have acknowledge the issue and are working on a solution. According to that thread there will be a fix release in mid July, so I am planning on not using Zone Alarm till then (mostly because lately I have been using my computer at home, which is behind a firewall anyways).
Just a heads up to anyone who might face this problem. I think this problem is only with the latest version of Zone Alarm, 5.0. The exact version of Zone Alarm that I am running is 5.0.590.043.
"Contacting server to create visual studio web project 'WebService1'"I was about to reinstall windows because I saw a post on expert exchange that said that the person just ended up reinstall windows. I did one last search on google thinking that maybe someone would have figured out the issue and guess what? Someone actually had a solution. It turns out that the problem was caused by the Zone Alarm firewall (which I just happened to be using also). So I shutdown Zone Alarm, fired up VS.Net, and created a project. This time it worked fine!
Looking on Zone Alarm's support website I ended up on this thread according to which they have acknowledge the issue and are working on a solution. According to that thread there will be a fix release in mid July, so I am planning on not using Zone Alarm till then (mostly because lately I have been using my computer at home, which is behind a firewall anyways).
Just a heads up to anyone who might face this problem. I think this problem is only with the latest version of Zone Alarm, 5.0. The exact version of Zone Alarm that I am running is 5.0.590.043.
