If System.IO.File.Exists("C:\EnableES.txt") Then

'-- Create the ES data source

Dim ds As New EnterpriseDataSourceItem("", _

"es.sigmaxxxx.com", 80, "ILA", _

New SqlDataSourceItem(""))

'-- Configure the compression and encryption (optional)

ds.IsCompressed = True

ds.IsEncrypted = True

ds.EncryptionKey = New Byte() {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

ds.EncryptionVector = New Byte() {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}

'simple error display for testing

Try

'-- Add the EnterpriseDataSourceItem

Catch ex As Exception

MsgBox(ex.ToString)

End Try

Else

I wiped out your license, so you can go ahead and re-activate. Be sure to give the mac address of the network adapter that your public IP is attatched to and you should be good .

I need to get this eval up and running so any help will be greatly appreciated.

And yes I just obfustcated it so it wont be harvested by a spammer, I notice these forums index quite well and that domain also runs several mail servers, I dont want the domain name out there as much as I can control it. Nothing at all to do with SF there but be assured the domain in the code matches the hostname that I activated and I can get to it via the web ie (http://es.sigmaxxx.com/status.aspx, from my IP only since I set that in the config file).

Hope that helps you give me some things to try to get this working. So the status page should show the hostname, not "unknown"?

A couple thoughts: You'll need the most recent license base for it to interpret that license file correctly, and you'll need the most recent ESSiteContents for everything to be plumbed correctly. Have you gotten the latest beta build from here and the site contents (they  were updated in June) from here?

Past that, my guess would be that it just flat out can't find or access the license file, so I'd check your file permissions on that file to ensure that the IIS user has access to it.

The license file has been given full permissions for the Internet Guest account.

I did now update the SF DLL's in the GAC as this is a production server and I dont want to do that right now unless you are 100% sure that is going to be required to get this going. It looked to me that all the assemblies ES needs are in its BIN folder.

Next?

I can give you the IP for the correct hostname, does that help?

But here is the deal, there is one of two things going on here since the host name cannot be seen. There is a line of code that is used from the MicroFour License Base.dll assembly that attempts to pull the host name out of the licnese file (since the host name is stored within the license file).  if it cannot be found within the licnese file, then Unknown will be returned.  Since you are not getting an exception, I would think that all of you SF assemblies are on the same version, thus, it just cannot find the license file.  Here are some other fields that will appear "empty" or with default values if the license file cannot be found:

Stop Date: 1/1/1800
Host Name: unknown
Registered Company: (empty string)
Registered Name: (empty string)
Serial Number: (empty string)

There are some others, but this will be  a good litmus.  So let's basically go back to the beginning and just get your machine activated

Note: The license file "MicroFour License.dll" should be placed in the Bin folder of the ES site.

Stop Date: 1/1/1800

Host Name: unknown

Registered Company: Sdsi

Registered Name: Keith Chisarik

Serial Number: 77172-EF70B-942D7-B18C6-155EE

I am all connected with my app, thanks.

The app runs fine without using ES.

BusinessLayerException

  An error occurred while saving an the data to the server.

DataLayerSavingException

  Bad Data.

 CryptographicException

  Bad Data.

 Source     : MicroFour StrataFrame Business

 Stack Trace:

   at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException.ThrowCryptogaphicException(Int32 hr)

   at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils._DecryptData(SafeKeyHandle hKey, Byte[] data, Int32 ib, Int32 cb, Byte[]& outputBuffer, Int32 outputOffset, PaddingMode PaddingMode, Boolean fDone)

   at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoAPITransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount)

In the GAC I have a 1.5 and 1.6 for  AddIns, Base, Business, DBEngine, Extensibiity, and UI. The Enterprise assemblies are only in the BIN directory.  Hope this helps you point me in the right direction.

Data displays fine, reports run, just cant update anything.

If that doesn't work, you'll have to either update everything to the latest version, or pull everything out of the GAC and place the appropriate assemblies in the folders for each website so that each website only pulls its own assemblies.  That way you can have several "1.6.0.0" version assemblies on the same machine.

Follow up: How do I remove the old 1.5.0 assemblies from the GAC? Right cCick-Uninstall yields dependency errors and I am hesitant to try some of the suggestions on MSDN because they dont seem to specify how to uninstall an assembly of a specific version only. I have two of each SF assembly; a 1.5 which needs to go, and a 1.6 which would be very bad if it went

A decent write-up on GACUTIL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex0ss12c(VS.80).aspx

To turn off the fusion viewer, add a "DisableCacheViewer" DWORD registry key with a value of 1 to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion.