[aus-dotnet] Smart Software Client Factory projects - Fixed

[greg]

Well, after 2 hours of sweat and worry I’ve finally got my new machine working the way the old one used to.

 

As I said earlier, I uninstalled all MS products directly related to .NET development, except for VS2005 (I’m not going through that tonight!). All the old Ajax, Framework 3.0, Smart stuff and MSDN Library were removed.

 

I downloaded the latest copies I could find and reinstalled in this order: VS2005 Documentation (NOT MSDN) – Composite Application Block - Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) November 2006 CTP  - Enterprise Library May 2007 – Guidance Automation Extensions – Guidance Automation Toolkit - Smart Client Software Factory May 2007.

 

The final vital step failed with a cryptic message that Visual Basic projects were not available. I eventually realised that I had reinstalled VS2005 last year and for some reason had decided to skip VB (I suppose hadn’t used VB for 3 years). I ran a repair setup and put VB back.

 

Now I can File>New create a Smart Client Application, add Business and Foundation Modules, and the solution explorer context menu includes a Smart Client Factory menu to add Views, WPF Views and Disconnected Service Agents.

 

Cheers,

Greg Keogh