IDE logs off by a time out, no good way to re-login

[KevinC]

If I do not check something out for a while SOS times out and disconnects and I can't find a good way to reconnect.

If I try to check out a file after getting disconnected (or do anything from the source control menu in the .net IDE) I have to wait a minute for the checkout attempt to time out and return a message stating that I am disconnected and asking if I want to reconnect.

Is there a better way to re-connect than this? The only way I know of to avoid a length re-login process is to close .net and re-open.

Thanks,
Kevin

[bischowski]

set a keep-alive in Tools->Options->General

[lbauer]

Did this take care of the problem? Let me know if it didn't.

[Guest]

I had Keep Alive in SOS set before and it didn't help. I've set it again in the SOS program to make sure. However, I may not have been clear enough: The problem is in the Visual Studio IDE. If the SOS manager program logs off I can always stop the process and get logged on quickly, in VS it is another story.

The problem is in the Visual Studio IDE. If I get a time out I have to wait a minute or two before I get control of VS again and I have found no way around this.

Kevin

[corey]

The keep-alive signal did not work within the IDE in SOS 3.5 due to a bug. That problem has been fixed in 4.0. In 4.0, setting the keep-alive signal within SOS Options should prevent the disconnect from occuring.

[Guest]

Thanks for the info. I will stop looking for a way around this and start agitating for a upgrade.

[atelford]

I have the exact same problem in the collab version 1.1.2 . We have 3 developers using it, including myself, we all have varying problems like this using exactly the same projects. In my case within the VS.Net IDE my connection must time out, I try to check something out, it takes a long time and asks me to reconnect which I say yes to and off it goes. If I am checking in multiple files it does the same thing but for every single damn file. On another project I get the same behaviour but when I say reconnect it won't, it just keep prompting, I have to reopen the project, its a real pain in the ass.

Keep alive is on as is connect to last server.

[GothAndy]

I've just installed SourceOffSite Collab Edition (verison 1.1.2) and I'm getting the same annoying "The connection to the server has been closed." error.

I've just tried checkin in a whole project and I'm getting prompted to reconnect for each individual file.

I'm still on the 30day trial period and I'm very keen to get this work as the product is going to be very useful. Is there any easy way of getting round the continual connection problems?

[GothAndy]

Just re-reading my post I should also say:

I'm using Visual Studio.NET 2003.

I've ammended all the keep alive and reconnect settings that I can.

The problem occurs both on the windows and IDE client (it's fine on the web client).

[corey]

Can you both repost your Collab issues to the Collab support forum? That will eliminate any confusion and hopefully trigger some responses.