VS2K8 Professional can't select Fortress Enhanced Client 114

[joedpsg]

One person on our project team has Visual Studio 2008 Professional (others have 2008 Team Suite). We all have installed the same Fortress Client 1.1.4 version on our machines. We are all running on MS Server 2003 R2 OS.

The person with the professional version of visual studio can see "SourceGear Fortress Visual Studio Enhanced Client" and "SourceGear Fortress Classic Client" on the dropdown of his Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection dialog.

He can successfully select the classic client, but when he tries to select the enhanced client, the selection box simply returns to the classic client. It does not allow the enhanced client to be selected. This is preventing this team member from opening projects that others have created.

We've tried re-installing the Fortress client (uninstall first, re-install, reboot) to no avail.

Do you know what may be preventing this? Is the enhanced client supported on the "professional" version of Visual Studio?

Thanks in advance

Joe DePrimo

[joedpsg]

We tried one more thing that did not work: we installed visual studio 2008 SP1 on his copy of Visual Studio to see if that would clean anything up. It did not, he still cannot select the enhanced client.

[lbauer]

We'd recommend uninstalling the Fortress Client, then do a repair of Visual Studio from the command line, running as Administrator.

To do this, browse to "cmd.exe" in C:\Windows\System32. Right click on cmd.exe and select "Run as Administrator."

With the command line, cd to the Visual Studio directory where devenv.exe is. On my machine it was under:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE. At the prompt, type "devenv.exe /setup"

So the command might look like this:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE> devenv.exe /setup

This should repair any missing registry entries, etc, with Admin privileges.

Then reinstall the Fortress Client.

Another option is to use the Visual Studio installation disk, right-click on devenv.exe and select Run as Administrator.