Strataframe 1.6.6 installation failure

VS 2008 – SQL Express 2005 – Windows XP sp2

I downloaded SF Ver. 1.6.6. to be able to view the StrataFlix sample and found myself with an installation failure that I can’t seem to resolve. Everything seems to go fine until I realized that the SF install had hung up in step 2 of 2 with a barely noticeable error:

”An error occurred while deploying the data to the server”.

The SF install detects the SQL server in the connection step and it continues until the process hangs up in step 2 of 2 and your only option is to click on “Cancel Update and Close Dialog” which results in an abrupt closing of the modal SF step 2 of 2 window bringing up the Windows send error popup, but once you clear the OS popup the foreground SF window continues like nothing is wrong and completes the obviously failed installation.

I can connect to the SQL server using management studio without a problem and I’m able to connect through VS so all seems to be OK but SF does not seem to be able to complete the “Deploy Data” step.

Anyone has any idea what the problem could be or how to manually complete the process?

Also to the SF dev team you might want to look into that hang up issue when it encounters the error along with the abrupt shutdown of the process with no resolution option when you click on “Cancel Update…”

Thanks in advance…JC

Hi Trent,

The log file was the key…Thanks

I knew that connecting to the SQL server was not the issue since I covered all my bases including protocol issues and connecting using SSMS, VS, and SSCM.

Unfortunately the install just hangs in that step with that ambiguous error message that does little to help resolve the issue and kills when you click on “Cancel Update..” since it’s the only way to exit from the hang-up so you might want to look into that.

I’m not sure how the MDF was not deleted during the uninstall and it was also not attached to the server and I did not think of looking in the directory for it. Maybe it was part of the other hang-up during the uninstall as mentioned before during phase 2 of 2 “Un-register strataframe assemblies”.

In any case I’m now on 1.6.6…

Thanks everyone for the help…

The uninstall doesn't touch the databases.  So you may have uninstalled SQL Server, then reloaded it.  So the database was not mounted but the MDF existed, thus producing the error.  Glad you got it going!