vs2008 - no 'enhanced client' available

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:03 am

I have installed vault server 4.10 that includes vault client on my pc

in vs2005 i can use the enhanced client but in vs2008 it is not available

i have either 'vault classic' or 'none'

why is this?

how do i register it into vs2008

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:13 am

If you installed VS 2008 after Vault, then Vault isn't registered with VS 2008 in the registry. You need to uninstall and reinstall Vault so that it hits the VS 2008 section of the registry. This shouldn't affect anything other than taking about 2-3 minutes to perform.

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:31 pm

i installed vault server 4.10 (with client included) after i had installed vs2008.

i did a reinstall but still nothing.

it simply ignores vs2008

so then i did a complete uninstall of the server, reinstall, nothing.

there are also 2 entries in the add/remove for vault client - one is for version 4.06 the other is 4.10

if i try and install the client package it says 'admin policies prevent this'

i tried to use cCleaner to remove the entries in add/remove but i get an error about access denied!

i also did a registry clean and reinstall of vault server, again, nothing.

what should i do?

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:02 pm

Open the Vault client, go to Tools - Options - General and set Vault as your default SCC provider. Try this first, and if doesn't work, then continue to the next paragraph.

there are also 2 entries in the add/remove for vault client - one is for version 4.06 the other is 4.10

It sounds like the 4.0 client was installed before you installed the 4.1 server with client. In this kind of situation, it may make more sense to not install the 4.1 client with the server, but install it separately like you did with 4.0.6. Try uninstalling 4.1, then 4.0.6, then install just the 4.1 server without the client. Then install just the 4.1 client alone.

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:48 am

here is what happened...

4.06 would not uninstall - even when i redownloaded both the client and admin installers for that version and tried repair/remove etc..

I ended up having to remove everything, then search the registry and manually remove all items relating to windows installer and sourcegear.

once i did this the 4.06 item no longer appeared in the add/remove list.

so now i could install 4.10 client, then 4.10 server.

why did all this happen? looking back to when i first upgraded to 4.10 server i remember that the client part of the install threw an error but still finished - my server was working so i left it. i wasnt going to be needing to use the client on that machine for a while anyway.

so when that error blew it must have stopped it midway from removing 4.06 which is why it was still in my add/remove list.

at least its sorted now.

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:25 pm

Thanks for the follow up on this.

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:11 am

There was a knowledge base article to assist with this: http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=9653

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:52 am

Terence wrote:There was a knowledge base article to assist with this: http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=9653

oh how i wish i had known about that utility before i did it all manually

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:45 pm

Sorry we weren't more clear about this, to begin with. Happy that you're up and working now.

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:17 pm

yes im happily working in cvs mode now after reading thru the tutorial on erics blog and the enhanced client FAQ.

Post by **jclausius** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:24 am

We're glad things were straightened out.

Cheers.