VS 2008 – SQL Express 2005 – Windows XP sp2

I downloaded SF Ver. 1.6.6. to be able to view the StrataFlix sample and found myself with an installation failure that I can’t seem to resolve. Everything seems to go fine until I realized that the SF install had hung up in step 2 of 2 with a barely noticeable error:

”An error occurred while deploying the data to the server”.

The SF install detects the SQL server in the connection step and it continues until the process hangs up in step 2 of 2 and your only option is to click on “Cancel Update and Close Dialog” which results in an abrupt closing of the modal SF step 2 of 2 window bringing up the Windows send error popup, but once you clear the OS popup the foreground SF window continues like nothing is wrong and completes the obviously failed installation.

I can connect to the SQL server using management studio without a problem and I’m able to connect through VS so all seems to be OK but SF does not seem to be able to complete the “Deploy Data” step.

Anyone has any idea what the problem could be or how to manually complete the process?

Also to the SF dev team you might want to look into that hang up issue when it encounters the error along with the abrupt shutdown of the process with no resolution option when you click on “Cancel Update…”

Thanks in advance…JC