I'm glad you found it, Ralph.  There really is a great deal of information to be found here on the forum if you know where to look

Hello Trent,

thank you very much for your generous offer to help me online. It's a very nice kind of you, a really great service.

But meanwhile I found the solution right here at the SF-forum: http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic211-10-1.aspx

The path to the SF Addin.dll pointed to the wrong direction, directories named in english on a german XP. This can't work, but is easy to fix if you know where to look at. ;-)

Thank you very much for your great support,

Ralph

I don't want you to have to do that...we can setup a time for a screen sharing session or something before you go to that kind of energy!  Do you have another computer that you can load on to see if the issue follows the machine?

Hi Trent,

sorry, no success. I tried all you wrote, but nothing worked. Seems I have to reinstall my machine?

TIA, Ralph

Ralph,

First, be sure to get the newest update I just posted: http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost14430.aspx .  After you load this, if the error persists, then delete your AppData.dat and Connections.dat files and then go back into VS and re-create your connection.  If this doesn't work, then I am not sure what exactly could be causing the problem so we may have to try something else.

Hello Trent,

thank you very much for giving me some hints. :-)

I reach the StrataFrame tables thru the SQL ServerManagementStudio Express with no problem. All of the StrataFrame assemblies on my machine are of the same version: Assembly Version 1.6.0.0 - File Verison 1.6.5.0

If LoadBehavior tag is set to 1 I get the mentioned error. Maybe the screen shot alone isn't enough, but it is all i get.

Some more hints?

TIA and friendly greetings, Ralph

This error can be caused from an infinite number of things, so the screen shot alone isn't enough.  But here are the things to check:

• The SQL Server connection to the StrataFrame table
• All of the StrataFrame assemblies are synced or on the same version (check the GAC and the Program Files\Common Files\MicroFour\StrataFrame locations

Generally it is one of those two items, so if neither of these produce a result then let us know and we can look at some other items.  You will also need to set the Add-Ins file back to a usuable state once you get this message.  Depending upon how you answered this message, it will have either renamed the AddIns file or changed the LoadBehavior tag inside of the file.  The LoadBehavior tag should be set to 1.  if the file was renamed, just name it back.  You will find this file in the MSEnvDte folder under your logged in user.  You can always do a search to find it.

Hello,

I've got the same error, but I'm running XP Professional SP 2:

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The Add-In 'StrataFrame Add-In Manager' failed to load or caused an exception.
StrataFrame2008.AddIn

Message: The system cannot find the file specified.
Number: 80070002

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Does anybody know how to fix this?

TIA, Ralph

Hmm...I will see if I can reproduce, but this path comes from the registry .  But all the same, I will be testing on the x64 OS and I will see if this comes up as well.  Thanks.

I must've been tired last night when I tried resolving this last night or something and didn't double check myself.

After checking everything you mentioned and short of installing & compiling the source, on a whim, I modified the AddIn file again and changed the Assembly reference location to reflect the Program Files (x86) location. This fixed the issue and everything seems to work.



I DID encounter a few issues however after I uninstalled previously...

During the uinstall, this error came up:



Error occurred when removing templates...

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Windows\system32\ItemTemplates'.



And not sure if this is related or not, but Visual Studio would still show the Project templates (though it would just tell me it couldn't find them) when opening the New Project dialog after uinstalling & manually removing any visible trace of StrataFrame and any reference to MicroFour that I could find on the computer.



Thanks for the help!