SQL Server Management Studio on Vista
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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Management Studio SP2 works fine on both my Vista PCs (x64 and x86), so I suspect it's something to do with your configuration. Have you tried reinstalling it?
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Management Studio SP2 works fine on both my Vista PCs (x64 and x86), so I suspect it's something to do with your configuration. Have you tried reinstalling it?
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Yep, twice now... :( One reinstall was using the all-in-one Sql Express with Advance Services package which includes SSMA, and the other one was a bare-bones install of SQL Express, just the database service, and a separate install of SSMS from a standalone installer. Both versions display the same behaviour. I would say it's definitely the IDE not the server, as I can query the DB fine.
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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remove vista and replace with XP :)
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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Like Dario said, it might be something wrong with your m/c config. I have SQL 2005 Advanced Services (SQL Instance + Mgmt Studio) installed on my Vista (Home Premium). It's working fine.
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Like Dario said, it might be something wrong with your m/c config. I have SQL 2005 Advanced Services (SQL Instance + Mgmt Studio) installed on my Vista (Home Premium). It's working fine.
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
m/c config?
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m/c config?
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melchizidech wrote:
m/c config?
yap. machine configuration. Do you have all updates (ie. windows updates or etc)? And please disable UAC and anti-virus software. Run as a admin.
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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melchizidech wrote:
m/c config?
yap. machine configuration. Do you have all updates (ie. windows updates or etc)? And please disable UAC and anti-virus software. Run as a admin.
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
AAAaaaahhh. M/C. Machine Configuration. Sorry never heard it referred to like that before. I associate MC with bad Nineties rappers... To answer your question, yep, running as Admin, yep, UAC is turned off (what a pointless feature that turned out to be). The only thing is that I didn't go directly to Windows Update and explicitly ask for all updates yet, although it already downloaded a lot. I'll do that when i go home this evening and see if it makes a difference.
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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Have you tried uninstalling Workstation components and reinstalling it? I remember facing this error, and I assumed it was because I installed Visual Studio after I'd installed SQL Server client. I don't remember how I solved it, but i remember something about SSMS needing to be installed in the same drive as Visual Studio because of some shared components. Sorry, can't recollect it now. :doh:
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Have you tried uninstalling Workstation components and reinstalling it? I remember facing this error, and I assumed it was because I installed Visual Studio after I'd installed SQL Server client. I don't remember how I solved it, but i remember something about SSMS needing to be installed in the same drive as Visual Studio because of some shared components. Sorry, can't recollect it now. :doh:
OK, well I installed Studio first, and then installed SSMS. I only started messing around with the standalone installer because I came up against this and there doesn't seem to be anything on the Net about it. And both of them are installed to the same drive. But thanks. I'll have a look at Workstation components and see if I can find anything related to that.
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remove vista and replace with XP :)
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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I know it's not very helpful, but I also suspect it's an individual problem related to your configuration. Management Studio works fine on my Vista Ultimate x86 and I never had problems with it.
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I know it's not very helpful, but I also suspect it's an individual problem related to your configuration. Management Studio works fine on my Vista Ultimate x86 and I never had problems with it.
That's OK, I get it, obviously if all these good folks are merrily running SSMS on Vista there must be soemthing wrong with my particular configuration. the question is what though. Running without UAC, as an administrator, and on the same drive as the server install. The only thing I can think of is that there's either a hotfix to the app that I need to download, or there's a hotfix for the .Net framework I need to download. They're all .NET errors that come up. The app continues to run. I can work with it, it's just very very annoying.
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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It works fine on my same setup, however I distinctly recall that problem and I recall searching and finding a solution but I don't recall what the solution was or where I found it. There is an easy solution for it though, I can tell you that much.
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It works fine on my same setup, however I distinctly recall that problem and I recall searching and finding a solution but I don't recall what the solution was or where I found it. There is an easy solution for it though, I can tell you that much.
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Just got myself a my first laptop to have Vista (Ultimate) on it, and I'm setting up my dev environment when I come across my first Vista compatibility issue... wahey... Visual Studio goes on fine, everything else goes on fine, SQL Server SP2 installs fine, but when I run Management Studio, I get all these annoying .NET framework error messages when I use popup dialogs, like the Options dialog. I should stress, the server instance is working fine, I'm running a development website off it, and that's grand, but I obviously want to be able to use Management Studio without these .NET errors coming up. I don't have the exact error to hand right now, but it was something like "Cannot Create a Subkey under an unstable Parent Key" ... ? Has anyone else come across this weirdness?
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Right, found it. Silly of me to be honest. The problem was caused by having that little SQL 2005 Service Manager application installed. Uninstalled it and everything is now hunky dory. It just means i have to open up the Services manager manually every time I want to stop or start SQL Server.
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