Oh yea, and I forgot to also add that when I assumed it was corrupt and tried to repair or delete it, the ASCOM installation software will not let me do it -...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 5, 2010 10:51 pm
Hunter, It sounds like maybe your ASCOM platform is in an indeterminate state. Try searching in ascom answers for a solution. -Ray ... installation software...
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hewholooks
Mar 6, 2010 1:08 pm
Ray, Thanks for the response. I worked through some sites on the web last night and finally decided that some kind of windows update had altered some critical...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 6, 2010 2:59 pm
Hunter, ... some critical ... the date of my ... were applied incorrectly ... I really don't know as I have not been involved with platform development. Maybe...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Mar 6, 2010 4:19 pm
There are no known issues with Windows Update and ASCOM - so in general
the advice would be to keep AutoUpdate enabled. In fact, some versions
of .NET 2.0 have...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 6, 2010 4:43 pm
Tim, ... I think the only *relevant* .Net 2.0 serial port "bugs" were actually in the platform itself. In fact I reported a significant one, but it only...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Mar 6, 2010 5:36 pm
Ray, I think you are referring to ASCOM-38:
http://teamserver.tigranetworks.co.uk:8010/browse/ASCOM-38
No, there was another issue that affected specifically...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 6, 2010 5:53 pm
Tim, ... <http://teamserver.tigranetworks.co.uk:8010/browse/ASCOM-38> ... Or... if that was a bug in .Net 2.0 then we could have simply not used .Net for...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Mar 6, 2010 9:50 pm
... If we'd only known at the time. Hindsight is n/a. .NET 2.0 is 4 years old. ... OK. And we're supposed to do what? ... Thanks for eroding our ASCOM users'...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 6, 2010 11:08 pm
... Bob, not much hindsight was needed. It took me one weekend to write/test/debug a C++ DLL to interface with the low level Windows serial API. .Net is not...
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Rob Morgan
rob.morgan83
Mar 6, 2010 11:21 pm
Who said Microsoft was perfect? I think Bill would hire you J I'm just kidding around, I doubt he does any interviews these days. From:...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Mar 7, 2010 12:36 am
Ray -- What can I say? No matter what, this just calls into question the whole approach we are taking for the Platform going forward. If .NET were as bad or...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 7, 2010 3:01 am
... Disclaimer... none of this should be of concern the end-user. This is a developer topic... Bob...what is your source for the vast majority of Windows...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Mar 7, 2010 3:33 am
... ExchangeDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity ...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 7, 2010 3:10 pm
Tim Sorry, I didn't know it is off-topic for developers to talk about the development environment that is recommended to be used for ASCOM projects. -Ray From:...
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Chuck Faranda
cfaranda24
Mar 7, 2010 3:22 pm
With all due deference, I don't recall asking anyone to be my proxy. I care. Regards, Chuck Faranda http://ccdastro.com ... a developer topic... You got it...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Mar 7, 2010 3:59 pm
Hey guys -- There are all manner of people using this group and this is good! So here I am Charlie Q. Astronomer. I've heard of ASCOM and think it's important....
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pfister_francois
pfister_fran...
Mar 7, 2010 4:14 pm
Hello, Nobody has any idea? This occurs with 2 different PCs, but with the same "Windows" I think it comes from Windows, nothing to do with Ascom... I can not...
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brechje.vanbeek
Mar 7, 2010 4:14 pm
Hi folks, I might just be silly, but I can't seem to find the helpernet files in the files section. Did anyone remove them? Or am I just to new to be allowed...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Mar 7, 2010 6:20 pm
... The helpernet files have been replaced by an ASCOM update, 5.5.1, this is available from the ASCOM site http://ascom-standards.org/ Chris...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Mar 7, 2010 6:24 pm
Update to the ASCOM Platform 5.5. http://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/PlatformUpdates.htm HelperNET is the old name, used while being refined. It is now...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
Mar 7, 2010 6:29 pm
This is one of these errors that is almost impossible to diagnose, especially by email. All it tells us is that something that POTH expects to use is missing...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
Mar 7, 2010 7:33 pm
Should a call to SetCCDTemperature turn the camera cooler on? Several applications seem to expect this because they don't call CoolerOn, just set the...
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petersoxberger
Mar 8, 2010 12:42 am
Hi! I've encountered a small problem. I started a new template project and compiled it the first time. Now I wanted to use the driver from The Sky6 but how?...
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hewholooks
Mar 8, 2010 12:15 pm
Gee fellas, I didn't know this would be such a topic for discussion! ;-) Anyway...... I haven't updated to 5.5 because I had heard it might be a little buggy...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 8, 2010 12:19 pm
... I think this is an exaggerating and over-dramatizing what I said. I love what I have been able to do with the .Net/Visual Studio platform. I just feel it...
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Ray Gralak (Yahoo Gro...
raygralak
Mar 8, 2010 12:24 pm
Hunter, ... fine. Sorry for the ... delete OR ... do because my computer ... what really ... OK, I'm interested in making sure you get the platform and the AP...
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Paul Kanevsky
paulkccd
Mar 8, 2010 1:54 pm
... Now, that's something I'd really support! Saying in one breath that ASCOM-answers is for end-users and ASCOM-talk for developers, and then in the next that...
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themos_astro
Mar 8, 2010 3:40 pm
If everything's worked correctly, you don't need to copy files. The COM assembly is registered as part of the build process. So, the chooser comes up but you...
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hewholooks
Mar 8, 2010 4:12 pm
Thanks Ray. I re-installed all the critical security updates that fell between my working checkpoint and today. I checked to see if ASCOM would come up and...
