I have no reason to hang onto VS 2008 and am going to go with just 2010.



Actually what I really need to do is migrate from one of my two main computers to the other. I have been going through all this trouble on the workhorse, which has been accumulating detritus for years. MSI installs and uninstalls have become particularly problematic. Last night the uninstall of VS 2008 aborted near the end. I had to delete the remaining files and registry entries by hand. Also, when I reinstalled StrataFrame, it did not create an SF menu pad in VS 2010. Isn't it still supposed to do that.



I used to use a handy dandy little tool from Microsoft called MSI Clean Up Uninstall, but it doesn't seem to work in Windows 7.



The box I plan to migrate to is practically a newborn. About all it has on it is Windows 7, SQL Server 2008, and VS 2010. The other issue is the hard drive on the main computer is only 160 GB, only about 30 GB free. It's time to make that one the spare and the other one the workhorse. All it will take is some time and a new video card to accommodate dual monitors.

FYI, if you have both VS2008 and VS2010 on the same box SF install will set you up in both of them.



But be sure that you build the source code in VS2008 ( in debug mode ). You will still be able to step into it in VS2010. ( once you figure out how to go into options and set the Enable .NET source stepping and get rid of Just my Code )

Yes, I understand the difference. Just could not get it to work for some reason. I upgraded from Vista Ultimate to Win7 Ultimate. If you installed it fresh maybe something was different. IAC Edhy's suggestion of deactivating online was exactly what I wanted. Now I can reinstall SF in VS 2010.

That worked, and it's exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks!

Mike



Did you do what I suggested re activate.exe ? Giving yourself full sec permissions is not the same as setting the exe to always run as admin.



I struggled with the same stuff you're talking about, but once you get everything running as admin you should be able to run the activate ( from start with VS closed )

Michael, you can always deactivate from the "My Account" page in SF site, but in this case you may no have to since the activation is based on your network card mac address and that have not changed in your computer, so go ahead and try VS2010 which for the record is what I am using now and working fine Win7 64bit Ultimate and VS2010.

Edhy Rijo

Still no joy. I tried the things you and Bill suggested. Activate.exe and DatabaseDTK.exe both blow up when run standalone and VS 2008 still chokes on StrataFrame when starting. I also verified that Base.dll exists.



What I would really like to do is get my license key back, uninstall SF and VS 2008 (2010 is already installed), and then reinstall SF. Something about upgrading to Windows 7 crippled it. It was working fine before. Do you know of any way to get the key back without running the deactivate-on-this-machine process?

Hmmm...a FileNotFoundException



Have you confirmed that the SF assemblies are all intact? The one referenced is the MicroFour StrataFrame Base.dll. Make sure that it exists and that there are not duplicate copies floating around.



Bill

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.

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()