Don’t ask me, there is an article with more info, but Habib Heydarian shed some light on the workaround here.

It appears to get around this problem, you must set your project to a configuration platform of x86, enabling it to run as a 32-bit process.

You can do this by dropping down the “Solution Platforms” combo usually stating “Any CPU” next to your “Run” option on the menu bar and selecting “Configuration Manager”.  From there it’s just a matter of selecting “Platform” -> “New” and adding a new platform type “x86″ and you’re right to go.  IntelliTrace should now work.

Don’t forget to set this back to “Any CPU” when you are done to target both x64 (64-bit) and x86 (32-bit) platforms.

Then never fear, this is a way around it.

All you need to do is adjust the registry setting (via regedit.exe) as Visual Studio wasn’t kind enough to supply as a checkbox for us on the dialog:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Debugger | DisableAttachSecurityWarning = 1

The same setting can be found for Visual Studio 2005 under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Debugger | DisableAttachSecurityWarning = 1

*** Make sure you make this change after you have closed Visual Studio, or it may not save properly! ***

Hope that has helped ya.

PS. I’ve been swamped will full time work lately, but I have a bunch of drafts I want to inevitably publish on this blog, so stay tuned.

Running transformation: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.FailedOperationException: SetParent failed for Database ‘XXXX’.  —>
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionFailureException: Failed to connect to server XXXX. —>
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionFailureException: This SQL Server version (10.0) is not supported.

When attempting to connect to a SQL Server 2008 database when working with T4 templates or simply accessing an SQL Server directly using the SQL Server SDK via SMO.

What I found was, my code was attempting to connecting using SQL Server 2005 reference assemblies for connection, and you must ensure that your referencing the correct SQL Server (10.0) 2008 Version assemblies. If this doesn’t sound like your problem, another one could be you are attempting to restore a SQL Server 2008 database onto an SQL Server 2005 instance, this also does not work as it’s not backwards compatible. Try scripting your schema + data instead.

But back on track, for the T4 problem, where you have your assembly import declarations at the top of your template, ensure they look like the following:

<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.sfc, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" #>
<#@ import namespace="Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo" #>

Hope I can help. This should now compile correctly with the specified version calls.

I had wired up a Crystal Report through a Web Form (actually embedded within an ASP.NET MVC Web Application) and loaded through the CrystalReportViewer across an ADO.NET DataSet.

All was merry on my development machine, the report loaded fine with no problems.

However, when deploying to our live server which was setup with the Crystal Reports Re-distributable Package for .NET Deployment, it was a different story.

The report was blank. Due to Crystal’s “brilliant” (cough) error reporting, I had no clue why the report failed to load other than just not seeing it.  So I decided to check the Windows Event Log for any trails (as I’ve been caught out on this before) and low and behold there was our nasty exception:

Exception type: ConfigurationErrorsException
Exception message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web\2_0_50727\crystalreportviewers12\web.config line 6)

Well for me, creating the application as a .NET application in IIS, was not my issue, this had already been done.  The error after a bit of fiddling, I actually found out, was due to that Crystal Reports-issued Web.config mentioned in the exception (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web\2_0_50727\crystalreportviewers12\Web.config).  It was conflicting with my application.

After spending some time with this file, I couldn’t get the error message to budge.  So I took easy street, a good ‘ole rename.  I humbly decided I did not need this file after looking through the properties, there were no mission-critical properties relevant to my app in there, so click, rename, voila, report online.

Hope this was your problem.

…Seems to me like a mildly tested Crystal Reports Re-distributable package could be to blame…

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