Shaken of course - with blue cheese stuffed olives. Yum!

Yes indeed. Those who don't make mistakes are unlikely to make anything at all .

Enjoy the martini!

Hey Marcia.

Never mind. Really glad you got it going.

Enjoy your martini. Shaken or stirred?

Thanks again for taking the time and the trouble to help me get this one resolved. Now that I have the original project working again, I am going to the neighborhood pub and having a large delicious martini I have earned it.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day and you won't be hearing so much out of me because I will be making fewer stupid mistakes.

Oh well, the only people who do not make mistakes are those that aren't doing anything...

Another thought, make sure you can get to your StrataFrame database using SQL Management Studio. It still sounds like something went off-kilter regarding the IDE's connection to the SF database, so you might want to check to ensure that the database is present, can be browsed, etc. The database will be named StrataFrame. Make sure you can browse the tables preffaced with "DTE".

Hi Dustin.

>> Can you modify your project properties from within the BO mapper? If so, does it have a valid SQL connection string to your application database? <<

I am SOOOO embarrassed!!! I made a real stupid newbie mistake when re-organizing my project. This one was caused by Visual Studio, not by Strataframe. I finally managed to get the original project working - and you were right. It was a namespace issue.

I am SOOOOO sorry for wasting everyone's time and I really appreciate everyone who is up here trying to help newbies like me.

This is such a humbling experience - I have been a VFP MVP for the last 10 years, so I am used to getting the code written (in VFP) backwards in my sleep

Oh well, live and learn or you don't live long...

Can you modify your project properties from within the BO mapper? If so, does it have a valid SQL connection string to your application database?

>> So, you might want to check that. Go to the StrataFrame menu on the Visual Studio IDE, choose Database Connection. The StrataFrame Data Store should be selected. You can edit it and make shure that this connection is pointing to the StrataFrame Database, not anyone else. <<

It is pointing to the correct place and no - it does not help

When I try to right-click on the BO, the tool tip says "The containing project must first be bound to a project in the database" - so what is this trying to tell me?

Well, I will try to help.

Not sure this is your problem, and you might already know what I am goind to say, but just in case you don't... your application database connection has nothing to do with BO Mapper and such. These are all located through the StrataFrame Database connection.

So, you might want to check that. Go to the StrataFrame menu on the Visual Studio IDE, choose Database Connection. The StrataFrame Data Store should be selected. You can edit it and make shure that this connection is pointing to the StrataFrame Database, not anyone else.

Hope it helps.

>> Are you working on a mapped network drive? <<

No. I am working on my local machine.

I have installed the latest version of Strataframe. I have built an entire new project from scratch. And now I cannot configure business objects because Strataframe has no clue what the applicaiton database is.

I have wasted countless hours that I cannot bill for on this. All I want to be able to do is to start again from scratch and get something working that I can show my client.

How can I tell Strataframe where to look for the application database. I actually set up a new application key in my new application and got prompted for the connection string. Even after I entered it, the BO Mapper's Configure option was STILL disabled!

All I want to do at this point is to start over from scratch and it appears that I cannot even do that!