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Hi, I have experience the following bug that prevents me from using your SimpleDB tool. When I try to add a new data source I get the following message box after I enter the credentials and click OK: There is an error in XML document (0, 0).
Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't help. This never happened when I was using XP. Thanks, Jon.
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Hi Jon, I haven't been able to reproduce this problem, using either the VS2008 or VS2010 builds of SimpleDB Management Tools on Windows 7. The only thing I can think of is that something is returning a HTML or text response instead of the XML response expected from SimpleDB. One possible cause could be if you are somehow connecting to the wrong place (e.g. if you are using the European data centre and have mistyped the URL), though this seems a bit unlikely. Another is if there is a proxy server which wasn't in place on your XP system -- perhaps the proxy might require authentication which we're not providing, and is returning a HTML page to report the authentication error. Could that be a possibility? |
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Hi Ivan,
Just to clarify, the SimpleDB tool has worked on Windows 7 but it stopped working at some point, so I don't think any of the scenarios you described could cause this. Another colleague on my team is experiencing the same problem while two other SimpleDB users are not.
I am only using the Authentication fields. The M/DB fields are left blank by default.
The message box pops up when I try to Test Connection, or click Ok in the Add Connection window.
I thought perhaps that upon a successful connection, the tool was trying to write to an Xml file which had become corrupted. If this is the case then uninstalling the application does not delete the file. |
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We don't try to write any files, though I think Visual Studio does store Server Explorer connections in a XML file. But if you're getting the error when you do a Test Connection, it probably means that the error is with the document being returned from Amazon rather than with anything being written locally -- I don't think VS stores the connection details until you click OK in the Add Connection window. Can you put a packet sniffer on the connection to Amazon and look at the returned document? (I guess SSL may defeat this but it's worth a try.) Is there any difference between the two installations which are experiencing the problem and the two which are not? E.g. different builds of SimpleDB Management Tools, different operating systems, different versions of Visual Studio. We recently upgraded SimpleDB Management Tools to the latest version of the Amazon SDK: if you uninstall the current version and reinstall the latest nightly build (available from the store via the Get Files link), does that help? |
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Hi Ivan, the nightly build did the job.
Cheers,
Jon. |
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I'm getting the same issue with both the latest release and nightly build. I have attempted uninstalling/reinstalling a number of times without any luck. I wasn't able to inspect the response from AWS because of the use of SSL. Is it possible that the application needs to be rebuilt using the latest AWS.SDK? |
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Hello Darryl, I don't think there's a SDK versioning issue: I've just installed the latest version from the Visual Studio Extension Manager and I've been able to connect to my account with no problems. Are you getting the "XML document (0,0)" error or something different? Could there be a proxy server between your machine and SimpleDB? |
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I was getting the "XML document (0,0)" error for the past couple days, but it seems to have resolved itself today. I can't think of what would have helped resolve it other than a few Visual Studio restarts and machine reboots since I last tried. |
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Was this ever resolved? I just downloaded the current tool and I'm getting the same exact error trying to test the connection. I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension. I closed and restarted vs2010 on windows 7 in admin mode and standard mode. I created new security credentials, and no matter what I get the same message. Any suggestions? |
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No unfortunately we have not been able to reproduce this issue here - in the previous cases where this has been encountered it has seemed to "resolve itself" without any apparent change either which is a bit disconcerting. Sorry I cant be of more help but if you have any more information around this please let us know as we would love to track down what is occurring.
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