Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-20 Thread Greg Keogh
- fuslogvw.exe shows no binding failures when my app crashes on the test machine. - I compared the fusion logs of one that works and one that fails and there are subtle differences, but there is no way of knowing what's right or wrong. - I've compared the GAC contents of the two

RE: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-20 Thread Ian Thomas
Greg Have you looked at the Registry on both (32-bit/64-bit), under Visual Studio DataProviders? It may be a quicker comparison. I have only VS2010 installed, the key being [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\DataProviders ] - _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park,

Re: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-19 Thread Greg Keogh
I copied EVERY dll referenced by the project over to the test machine and it still fails. I was suspicious that the test machine it did work on had Visual Studio 2012 installed on it, so I uninstalled VS2012 and all other development tools (it's an old spare VM) and now it crashes there as well.

Re: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-19 Thread Preet Sangha
Did check the fusion log to see what was being probed for? On 20 May 2013 11:09, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I copied EVERY dll referenced by the project over to the test machine and it still fails. I was suspicious that the test machine it did work on had Visual Studio 2012 installed on

Re: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-19 Thread Greg Keogh
Did check the fusion log to see what was being probed for? Ah! fuslogvw ... Good idea, I'll try it tonight when I get home -- Greg

Re: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider

2013-05-19 Thread Preet Sangha
Hope it helps. My standard debugging technique is to now always check any and all logs I know about just in case something somewhere has recorded a little titbit of info that could be relevant. You'd be surprised what windows logs On 20 May 2013 13:14, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Did