Hmmm...a FileNotFoundException



Have you confirmed that the SF assemblies are all intact? The one referenced is the MicroFour StrataFrame Base.dll. Make sure that it exists and that there are not duplicate copies floating around.



Bill

Still no joy. I tried the things you and Bill suggested. Activate.exe and DatabaseDTK.exe both blow up when run standalone and VS 2008 still chokes on StrataFrame when starting. I also verified that Base.dll exists.



What I would really like to do is get my license key back, uninstall SF and VS 2008 (2010 is already installed), and then reinstall SF. Something about upgrading to Windows 7 crippled it. It was working fine before. Do you know of any way to get the key back without running the deactivate-on-this-machine process?

Michael, you can always deactivate from the "My Account" page in SF site, but in this case you may no have to since the activation is based on your network card mac address and that have not changed in your computer, so go ahead and try VS2010 which for the record is what I am using now and working fine Win7 64bit Ultimate and VS2010.

Edhy Rijo

Mike



Did you do what I suggested re activate.exe ? Giving yourself full sec permissions is not the same as setting the exe to always run as admin.



I struggled with the same stuff you're talking about, but once you get everything running as admin you should be able to run the activate ( from start with VS closed )

That worked, and it's exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks!

Yes, I understand the difference. Just could not get it to work for some reason. I upgraded from Vista Ultimate to Win7 Ultimate. If you installed it fresh maybe something was different. IAC Edhy's suggestion of deactivating online was exactly what I wanted. Now I can reinstall SF in VS 2010.

FYI, if you have both VS2008 and VS2010 on the same box SF install will set you up in both of them.



But be sure that you build the source code in VS2008 ( in debug mode ). You will still be able to step into it in VS2010. ( once you figure out how to go into options and set the Enable .NET source stepping and get rid of Just my Code )

I have no reason to hang onto VS 2008 and am going to go with just 2010.



Actually what I really need to do is migrate from one of my two main computers to the other. I have been going through all this trouble on the workhorse, which has been accumulating detritus for years. MSI installs and uninstalls have become particularly problematic. Last night the uninstall of VS 2008 aborted near the end. I had to delete the remaining files and registry entries by hand. Also, when I reinstalled StrataFrame, it did not create an SF menu pad in VS 2010. Isn't it still supposed to do that.



I used to use a handy dandy little tool from Microsoft called MSI Clean Up Uninstall, but it doesn't seem to work in Windows 7.



The box I plan to migrate to is practically a newborn. About all it has on it is Windows 7, SQL Server 2008, and VS 2010. The other issue is the hard drive on the main computer is only 160 GB, only about 30 GB free. It's time to make that one the spare and the other one the workhorse. All it will take is some time and a new video card to accommodate dual monitors.

(see my answer on UT)



If the old "workhorse" has a 160gb drive it may not even be SATA ( i.e. still uses ribbon cable and old power connector ) Not good.



If the new box is SATA ( two wire cable, each plugging into MB, power connector has a size step down adaptor ) use that one.



Almost all new drives you can buy are SATA.

There still seems to be something funky going on. Even on a clean machine with VS 2010 newly installed, StrataFrame does not install itself as a menu bar in VS. ReSharper did so without a hitch, just like it used to do in VS 2008. Does SF no longer do this? Is there a new version in the pipeline that will integrate seamlessly with VS 2010?