Importing a Remoting SDK Service RODL doesn;t work in Visual Studio

Remoting SDK
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When I try and importing a service, I can’t seem to get it to work in Visual Studio 2015. I just click on import and nothing happens. I can import into Delphi Berlin, so know that the server is running, and even if I stop the server, I get no error message. Just nothing…no remoterodl file, no intf file and no serveraccess file. Am I missing something in VS?

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Hello

Which exactly RO SDK version do you use? What is the server channel type and what URL do you enter?

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RO SDK version 9.0.97.1245. The server is Delphi, and I used the TROIpSuperHTTPServer and the bin message. URL is :

http://localhost:8098/bin (I changed the port, but doesn’t make any difference. I can put this url into a browser and get the response from the server. I can also import in Delphi. It’s just VS that doesn’t work.

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what I have now done to get this to work is to do the following :

  1. Put the URL http://localhost:8098/rodl into a browser.
  2. Copy the resultant XML into a text file and save it as a .rodl file.
  3. Open up Visual Studio, and import from rodl file rather than from a remote server.
  4. I then get the three files as expected.

I haven’t tried to see if this actually works yet, but I’m at least on my way. It would be interesting to see why the import from server doesn’t work though.

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This happens because .NET resolves http://localhost:8098/bin as IPv6 address while Delphi server doesn’t understand IPv6. Use the address like http://127.0.0.1:8098/bin and everything will work as intended.

Still a better error reporting is needed in the RODL import tool. Currently it reports errors in the VS Output pane which is not good enough for critical import errors.

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We’ll check why IPv4 was not used by default in your case.

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Ok, that worked now. I also have connection. Everything is working as expected.

Thanks