After having to format my workstation and reinstall everything, I encountered a very lovely error installing StrataFrame 1.6.6



I thought I would go about using SQLExpress 2008 vs. SQLExpress 2005... so my development setup is using VS 2008 SP1 with SQLExpress 2008.



The general exception is this:





Attached is the exception screenshot.

This is because the references assemblies within those deployments are SQL 9.0.  We don't yet officially support SQL 2008 since moving forward to the 10.0 assemblies will need to include signifigant testing to ensure backwards compatablity. 

So for the StrataFrame database, you'll need a SQL 2005 instance.

That's a bummer...

Any idea on when StrataFrame will officially support SQL 2008?

We'll likely have some beta releases that begin implimenting it before long, but we won't support it officially until the first quarter of next year at the earliest.

We know that more and more people will go to it as time goes on, but it needs to be vetted thoroughly so that we have a full knowledge of how data type translations and the like will function before moving to it en-masse.