Network Failure Suggestion

[kelly_sumrall]

Has anyone noticed what the application does if you lose your network connection and save any changes to a project that is on the network drive? It croaks!, throwing away any changes you may have.

I have been informed that this is by design. That's just wrong.

I would suggest the application ask the user if they want the application to shut down and throw away any changes they may have made OR if they prefer the application stay open and give them the opportunity to save their changes to an alternate location. I would probably nearly 100% of the time chose the later option.

[thomaskilian]

Har har. Have you ever used any MS application (like Word, Excel a.s.o.) and the network crashes when you work with these files? This is not a problem of the application but of the poor file system network protocoll. NEVER work on network devices. ALLWAYS use a local copy and seek for regulations to allow working on local copies (like using a CVS).

[kelly_sumrall]

Point taken. I'll setup an MSDE database on my local machine and use publisher subscription mechanism to keep my local database and the main database in synch.

[thomaskilian]

  Quite sure that will solve your problem