Fortress window not in VS2005

jonm · Post by **jonm** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:55 pm

I just upgraded my old Vault 3.x install to Fortree 1.0.6. The upgrade went great without any issues. My dev box is running Windows 2003 x64 with VS 2005 DB Pro SP1. The Fortress Pending Changes window works. For some reason the performance is really slow on everything in VS. The devenv.exe process normally pegs at 99% when trying to checkout a file or just right-click on one. The biggest problem is that I'm missing the Fortress item tracking windows. I don't show the Fortress window in my View > Other Windows menu. Any ideas on this? I would really like to get it working.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:13 am

Under View->Toolbars, is there a Fortress toolbar?

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:29 pm

There was an issue installing Fortress on windows 64 that has been addressed in the upcoming 1.1 release. Another symptom of this issue is that there is no Fortress Window option under the View menu.

Go to your registry and look for the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{bf3a1c52-1b02-421b-b8db-2700bc98e85f}

See if the value "CodeBase" is there. If not add it.
The string value should be the path to FortressVsipClient.dll (by default it
is C:\Program Files (x86)\SourceGear\Fortress Client\FortressVsipClient.dll)

Then run devenv.exe /setup from a command line.

That should fix the problem. You do not need to have the window docked anywhere to have access to the Fortress toolbar or Fortress window.

jonm · Post by **jonm** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:59 pm

Thanks. I was missing that registry key.