Hi

After installing the GAX and GAT, I don't see any of Guidance Packages in my New Project dialog box. I've tried the installation process as stated in software factory documentation of Enterprise Library Dec 2006 CTP. Can anyone help me ?

Thanks

Ethan Hunt

You don't get this:

File -> New Project -> Guidance Packages -> Guidance Package Development?

The installation of GAX and then GAT went ok without any warnings/errors?
Are you using english WinXP or any other language?

thanks,
-Victor.

You don't get this:

File -> New Project -> Guidance Packages -> Guidance Package Development?

The installation of GAX and then GAT went ok without any warnings/errors?
Are you using english WinXP or any other language?

thanks,
-Victor.

Yes....I don't get this;

And the installation of GAX and GAT went ok without any warning/errors. and I am using English Win XP.

Thanks

This is weird... did you have a previous version of GAX/GAT installed?

Nope....Actually, I am very new to Enterprise Library Dec 2006 CTP and GAX/GAT. I just tried all of these on yesterday

Humm... let's check if your machine has any signs of a successfully installation, please check:

- VS public folder (usually @ X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies) for files named Microsoft.Practices.*.dll -- there should be a couple of these files in there.

- using regedit check if this entry exists:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{7bfd0dc5-7b32-4ebb-9693-9d614abeb4dc}

It may help to get a verbose log of the installs too to check if anything went wrong (although I would have expected MSI installation not to succeed), you can generate that by running: msiexec GuidanceAutomationExtensions.msi /lv* logfile.txt.

-Victor.

Hi victor,

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Humm... let's check if your machine has any signs of a successfully installation, please check:

- VS public folder (usually @ X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies) for files named Microsoft.Practices.*.dll -- there should be a couple of these files in there.
-I don't see any of Microsoft.Practices*.dll in this folder.
- using regedit check if this entry exists:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{7bfd0dc5-7b32-4ebb-9693-9d614abeb4dc}
-Yes, I found this registry entry.

It may help to get a verbose log of the installs too to check if anything went wrong (although I would have expected MSI installation not to succeed), you can generate that by running: msiexec GuidanceAutomationExtensions.msi /lv* logfile.txt.
-I just try the installation with verbose log. I don't see any of Installation error.Here is install log.

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DEBUG: Error 2826: Control BannerBmp on dialog FinishedForm extends beyond the boundaries of the dialog to the right by 3 pixels
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2826. The arguments are: FinishedForm, BannerBmp, to the right
Action 12:31:28: FinishedForm. Dialog created
Action ended 12:31:29: FinishedForm. Return value 1.
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MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:29:960]: Destroying RemoteAPI object.
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=== Logging stopped: 01/07/2007 12:31:30 ===
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:050]: Note: 1: 1707
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:050]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:070]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:070]: Product: Guidance Automation Extensions -- Installation completed successfully.

MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:080]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:080]: Cleaning up uninstalled install packages, if any exist
MSI (c) (18:5C) [12:31:30:090]: MainEngineThread is returning 0
=== Verbose logging stopped: 01/07/2007 12:31:30 ===
Thanks

Hi Victor,
FYI, MS .NET framework 3.0 and Windows SDK are installed on my PC.

Thanks

Hi Ethan,

Sorry it took me a couple of days to get back to you.

I'm afraid I've virtually ran out of ideas... :-(

I've checked with other teams that are developing guidance packages and have installed .Net 3.0 and they're not having any issues.

It's very weird that your installation finishes ok without any errors at all but there is not a single trace of GAX being installed on your machine... no files... no reg entries...

Btw, have you had success installing it on other machines or VPCs?.

Sorry I can't be of much help here...

-Victor.

Hi victor,

Thank you for your idea. Just now, i have installed the GAX/GAT on other PC and it was quite OK. Perhaps some of the configurations/settings of my laptop is conflited with GAX/GAT installation.....

Thanks..

I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help with the installation issue and glad you could make it work on another machine!