This is not a safe thing to do outside of the local machine or programatically.  This is a message that comes back from SQL Server when trying to mount a database or create a file group using SMO. 

This file is removed with the installation...you do not have a clean installation.

See Attached.



Uninstalling SF apparently does an incomplete job of cleaning VS2005.

Since doing the install I get the following error:



Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component



any time I try to paste dataGridView controls onto a form or try to drag a data source onto a form or try to rename a bindingSource.



Any idea what got corrupted?



Thanks

After talking to you it was a simple matter to resolve the problem. The old data files were:

1 - not reattached when I upgraded to SQL 2005

2 - After reattaching them, the install still failed suggesting that the old format (or something) is not compatible with your latest release.



After delete the old file, the install finished normally.



It would be nice if the installer did some tests and/or provided the option to kill the old databases and make a new set. I wasted several hours screwing around with this because of the lack of a useful error message or a more fault tolerant app.



Thank you for your help.

More than likely you have installed StrataFrame to this SQL Server before, but dismounted the StrataFrame database rather than delete the SF database.  When this happens, the SQL MDF file is left on disk so when the database is attempted to be created, it fails because it cannot create the file group.

The error in the sample is because you have not properly installed the databases.  If the database is not there....then you will get an error.

The issue is on the side of SQL Server.  Either the MDF, permissions, etc.  But all in all the database cannot be created due to an issue on the side of SQL Server.

I removed and retried the install today.



The good new is Yes, there is a log file.

The bad new is that its length is 0 bytes.



same story from yesterday.

Howdy, Dan,

It looks like your StrataFrameSample database didn't get deployed like it should have during the install.  You should have a .log file in your C:\Program Files\Common Files\MicroFour\StrataFrame folder that contains information on the deployment process.  If you could post that out here for me, it might give us a clue as to what the error was that occurred while trying to deploy the data.

Thanks

Re: Attachment #1

I'm going to try SF again - so I ran the installer for the latest version 2/15/07.

Got the attached error.

What does it mean?

What do I do next?

Re: Attachment #2

I clicked on Business Binding Source and got the attached error?

???