{"id":4693,"date":"2005-10-20T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2005\/10\/20\/beta-3-known-bug-when-comparing-large-files-invalid-access-code-bad-parameter\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T20:37:00","slug":"beta-3-known-bug-when-comparing-large-files-invalid-access-code-bad-parameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/beta-3-known-bug-when-comparing-large-files-invalid-access-code-bad-parameter\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta 3 known bug when comparing large files: &#8220;Invalid access code (bad parameter).&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the forum, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/msdn\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=114244\">Carl Daniel reported<\/a> getting the message &#8220;Invalid access code (bad parameter)&#8221; when comparing two different versions of a file in Team Foundation Source Control Beta 3.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this is a bug that was discovered and fixed after beta 3 was released.&nbsp; The problem is that large files (on the order of 500K) will crash the diffmerge.exe tool.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not certain as to the exact size that begins to trigger the problem.<\/p>\n<p>If you hit this bug, you&#8217;ll need to work around it by&nbsp;using another diff tool until a newer public release fixes the problem (the upcoming beta 3 refresh will still have this bug).&nbsp; Of course, you could also reduce the size of the file, but that&#8217;s not often an option.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the forum, Carl Daniel reported getting the message &#8220;Invalid access code (bad parameter)&#8221; when comparing two different versions of a file in Team Foundation Source Control Beta 3. Unfortunately this is a bug that was discovered and fixed after beta 3 was released.&nbsp; The problem is that large files (on the order of 500K) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the forum, Carl Daniel reported getting the message &#8220;Invalid access code (bad parameter)&#8221; when comparing two different versions of a file in Team Foundation Source Control Beta 3. Unfortunately this is a bug that was discovered and fixed after beta 3 was released.&nbsp; The problem is that large files (on the order of 500K) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}