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Cannot install SSCE31VSTools-ENU.exe on VS 2005 Std SP1

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Jon Santos

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Jan 15, 2007, 3:29:04 PM1/15/07
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I am having a problem installing the SSCE31VSTools-ENU.exe package for
Visual Studio 2005 Standard with SP1. Here's what I have:

* Smart Device Programmability option installed for VS 2005 Std.
* Downloaded and installed VS SP1 (from Microsoft's website dated
12/14/2006.)
* SQLServerCE31-EN.msi package has been downloaded and installed (from
MS website dated 1/11/2007.)

The error I am getting is: "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the
Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be
missing, ...."

Is this package supported for Visual Studio 2005 Standard with SP1? Or
am I missing something?

Thanks for any help.

Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 15, 2007, 3:40:22 PM1/15/07
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Jon,

The same thing happened to me. Here's how to fix it: Get your original VS
2005 installation media. Find the \WCU folder and install SQL Mobile from
there. Then try the patch again.

--
Ginny Caughey
Device Application Development MVP


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Jon Santos

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Jan 15, 2007, 5:18:34 PM1/15/07
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It works! Thank you Ginny for your recommendation and quick reply!

-Jon S.

Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 15, 2007, 6:02:22 PM1/15/07
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Glad to hear it works for you too, Jon. And thanks to Amit Chopra on the
Visual Studio for Devices team at Microsoft for providing the tip.

--
Ginny Caughey
Device Application Development MVP


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Graham McKechnie

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Jan 19, 2007, 8:30:44 PM1/19/07
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Ginny,

Thanks for that tip, I needed that fix as well. If you don't have tools
installed then you don't see Sql Server 2005 Compact Edition in the list of
prerequisites components to install in a setup project. I presume a Click
Once install would also need a successful install of Tools for it to show up
there in it's list of prerequisites as well

I can't believe MS hasn't published something re this stuff up on their Sql
Server 2005 Compact Edition page. How did you get the info from Amit Chopra
or was that a MVP thing?

Is this only a stuff up, if you happened to have installed SP1 beta or is it
more general? What about a new install of VS 2005 and then the Compact
stuff. After all this dicking around, uninstalling sp1beta and installing
sp1, it might have been faster just to uninstall everything and start over
again.

Glad you are sharing your secrets.

Graham


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Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 19, 2007, 9:04:39 PM1/19/07
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Graham,

I believe the problem was caused by one of the betas, and uninstalling it
removed too much. In any case, I'm glad the tip helped you too. There is
also a problem with VS 2005 sp1 and CE 5 device connectivity which has been
blogged: http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/rss.xml

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Device Application Development MVP


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Paul

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Jan 24, 2007, 12:43:49 AM1/24/07
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Ginny Caughey [MVP] wrote:
> Jon,
>
> The same thing happened to me. Here's how to fix it: Get your original VS
> 2005 installation media. Find the \WCU folder and install SQL Mobile from
> there. Then try the patch again.
>
SQL Mobile is not in there on my disk. (VS Pro)

Paul

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Jan 24, 2007, 12:44:44 AM1/24/07
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Jon Santos wrote:

I have the exact conditions as OP and this didn't work for me.

Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 24, 2007, 6:34:23 AM1/24/07
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Paul,

Is the \WCU folder there?

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Paul

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Jan 24, 2007, 12:13:50 PM1/24/07
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Ginny Caughey [MVP] wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Is the \WCU folder there?
>
Yes.

Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 24, 2007, 12:26:03 PM1/24/07
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Paul,

And you don't have a folder under that called SQLCE?

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Paul

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Jan 24, 2007, 1:28:05 PM1/24/07
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No. This is a vs2005 professional edition disk.

I installed sql mobile sdk from the microsoft site, even though I didn't
want it. It installed ok, but the tool installer still gives the same error.


Ginny Caughey [MVP] wrote:
> Paul,
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Ginny Caughey [MVP]

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Jan 24, 2007, 2:27:46 PM1/24/07
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Paul,

Ok I didn't realize that wasn't part of the VS2005 Pro install. What you're
missing is the file named sqlmobiledevtoolsenu.msi from the original media.
You might try searching to see if it's somewhere else on the CD/DVD.
Otherwise I assume a repair or reinstall of VS would be in order.

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Paul

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Jan 24, 2007, 2:55:31 PM1/24/07
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It's just not there, not on the stardard edition either. I'm not going
to deal with the compact edition for now, perhaps they will fix all the
installs later.


Ginny Caughey [MVP] wrote:
> Paul,
>

Paul

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Mar 13, 2007, 12:04:59 AM3/13/07
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SQL Mobile was on Disk 2 of the Visual Studio Pro set. Sorry, my
mistake, the described fix for the install works. This procedure is also
described on the tools download page -- I should have read it. The
installs exit silently but appear ok.

seb....@gmail.com

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Mar 15, 2007, 1:38:01 PM3/15/07
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Hi there,

Please do we have to install this :
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Server Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4E45F676-E69A-4F7F-A016-C1585ACF4310&displaylang=en

before this :
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005
Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=877C0ADC-0347-4A47-B842-58FB71D159AC&displaylang=en

I don't want to install the sql server mobile edition but the compact
one, I mean sqlce 3.1
So I'll not run the mobile edition install from the \wcu folder, first
because I didn't install it as I installed my VS8 Pro, second because
I don't wanna use the mobile edition (sqlce 3.0) but the compact one
(sqlce 3.1).

It was already a nightmare to install correctly the mobile edition and
be able to use SQL Server Management Studio with it.
This compact edition is really beginning to piss me off !!!!

Thanks a lot for any help

On 15 jan, 21:40, "Ginny Caughey [MVP]"


<ginny.caughey.onl...@wasteworks.com> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> The same thing happened to me. Here's how to fix it: Get your original VS
> 2005 installation media. Find the \WCU folder and install SQL Mobile from
> there. Then try the patch again.
>
> --
> Ginny Caughey
> Device Application Development MVP
>

> "Jon Santos" <ajsdljaslkdjflkajsdfljasd...@msn.com> wrote in message

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