sqlce 3.5 won't install and run with my app on a clean xp sp2 machine running in a virtual pc. This is a test environment for my software install. The project runs on the development machine.
The error dialog is bountifully useless. system.data.sqlserverce.sqlce appears to be complaining. I have installed .net 3.0, sqlceme35.dll and System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll. Sqlce is definitely not a one dll install, and the help docs don't seem to have the concept of a required file list down. Here is the top section of the errors:
EventType : clr20r3 P1 : doofus.exe P2 : 5.0.0.0 P3 : 47316507
P4 : system.data.sqlserverce P5 : 3.5.0.0 P6 : 4668362c P7 : 11e
P8 : 3ec P9 : system.data.sqlserverce.sqlce
You can either install the SQL Compact 3.5 desktop runtime on the target PC
or include the sql compact DLL files as content in your project, see this
tutorial for more info: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219481.aspx
(Replace 30 with 35, of course)

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Erik Ejlskov Jensen - MCTS: Mobile App Dev
> sqlce 3.5 won't install and run with my app on a clean xp sp2 machine running in a virtual pc. This is a test environment for my software install. The project runs on the development machine.
>
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> P4 : system.data.sqlserverce P5 : 3.5.0.0 P6 : 4668362c P7 : 11e
> P8 : 3ec P9 : system.data.sqlserverce.sqlce
Paul - 08 Nov 2007 00:24 GMT
Thanks, I didn't know this existed in the online library. This section and page are not in my copy of msdn library, and I thought I had a fairly recent version.
> You can either install the SQL Compact 3.5 desktop runtime on the target PC
> or include the sql compact DLL files as content in your project, see this
> tutorial for more info: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219481.aspx
> (Replace 30 with 35, of course)