I recently upgraded to Windows 7. Now when I start VS 2008 there is an immediate dialog with error messages about StrataFrame. Sorry I do not have a screen shot -- it is on the computer at home. Since I also installed VS 2010, I want to unlock my license key from VS 2008. However, I cannot complete that dialog, probably because SF did not instantiate correctly.



What do I need to do to unlock the license key and reinstall SF in VS 2010?

Hi Michael,

You have to run VS as an Administrator.  Right click the VS shortcut and select "Run as Administrator" or if you want to have this permanent, in the shortcut Compatibility tab select "Run this program as an administrator" that should do it.

Edhy Rijo

I might also be necessary to do that with the SF stuff in Program Files\Microfour as well. ( I think I had to do it with the DDT) since you can't specifically run the SF stuff from the VS menu as admin and I'm not sure that gets passed along since the DDT ( and maybe BO mapper ) seem to run out-of-process.



Anyway, I found i had to right click on them in \Microfour as Edhy describes and on the Compatibility tab check run as administrator.



( incidentally, since I did that when I installed the 1.707 the Run as Admin was still checked after the upgrade )

Hey Mike !



Answered before I realized it was you. ( not that I wouldn't have answered had I known )



For benefit of other SF'ers - Mike Beane is a very long-time Foxpro developer who was an MVP when I was cutting my teeth on Foxpro. Get this guy totally hooked on SF and you'll find he's a very helpful member of the community.



Welcome to SF, Mike.

I know VS 2008 was running as administrator under Weesta. Maybe that got lost when I upgraded to Windows 7. I will check it tonight. Thanks!

Thanks, Charles. I hope you aren't causing trouble over here, too

Oh, he is! We call him "Charlie Trouble"....



(actually I just made that up )

Welcome to the forums, Michael. It appears that you know Charles well

Still no luck. I checked Run As Administrator in the Compatibility tab of the VS 2008 shortcut. Also went into Windows Explorer and gave myself full control in the Security tab for the entire \Proigram Files\MicroFour folder structure. Got the same error dialog as before on VS launch:



Exception

An error occurred while configuring the StrataFrame design-time data sources.

FileNotFoundException

Could not load file or assembly 'MicroFour StrataFrame Base, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=99fe9917f71608a7' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.



Source :



Stack Trace:

at MicroFour.StrataFrame.Data.ConnectionManager.SetConnections()

at MicroFour.StrataFrame.AddIns.AddInManager.ᜃ()

If the issue is SF, you need to go into Program Files\Microfour\Strataframe and set the Compatiblity\Run as Admin for Activate.exe, DatabaseDTK.exe



I thnk it is your Activate.exe that is choking. You can also find it on the Start menu, but I think setting it directly on the executable works best.