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I am having trouble removing a failed controller from my network.  I have tried device.RemoveFailedDevice(), but that always returns false.  I am able to remove other failed devices with that call, but not a controller.  Is there a special way I should be trying to remove a failed controller?

When removing a failed device, it's sometimes necessary to attempt communication with it first before calling RemoveFailedDevice.  Try something like:

try
{
       device.Level++;
}
catch
{
}
bool result = controller.RemoveFailedDevice(device);

 The device.Level++ operation should time out and throw an exception.  However, afterwards you should successfully be able to remove the failed device.

 Let us know whether or not this helps.

 Thank you for the response.  I tried your suggestion and it worked.  Why is this neccessary?  It seems to me that the RemoveFailedDevice method would attempt communication.

 just came accross this same issue, I hope there will eb a fix for this in a future version