Typically if working from home, when I have been developing with the SDK I’ve been RDP’ing in to my work computer which is running Visual Studio 2010. I haven’t upgraded my work computers Visual Studio to 2012 yet as 2012 I find challenging on a number of fronts (and the upper case menu names, gah!).

However, my home computer has been upgraded.

This evening I was creating a project to test and every time I would launch the test from Visual Studio 2012 ISO would crash.

When it crashed I’d save the lawsonclient.log and I’d see this

2013-03-31 22:43:15,392 [9] INFO Mango.UI.Client.MangoApplication.OnStartup – —— Application Started ——

2013-03-31 22:43:15,845 [9] INFO Mango.Services.Helper.ApplicationParameters.GetQueryStringParameters – Application is NOT started in ‘NetworkDeployed’ mode. This is happens only if the client is used in Development.

2013-03-31 22:43:15,861 [9] INFO Mango.Services.Helper.ApplicationParameters.UseUrlParameters – Main server taken from URL parameter. Main server = https://potato.it.local:30006

2013-03-31 22:43:29,925 [10] INFO Mango.Services.Helper.VerifyServer.Verify – LSO server https://potato.it.local:30006 is used.

2013-03-31 22:43:37,090 [10] INFO Mango.Services.Helper.VerifyServer.Verify – User ‘scampbell’ successfully authenticated

2013-03-31 22:43:38,371 [10] INFO Mango.Core.Services.Helper.GridInfo.Log – Grid Applications contextroots:

Grid App Type = SYSTEM Grid App Name = SYSTEM

    Module = SYSTEMWeb Service context roots

    Module = SYSTEM    Rest Service context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/grid/ Auth type =server

    Module = SYSTEM    Web Application context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/grid/ui/ Auth type =server

Grid App Type = Companion Grid App Name = CompanionGrid

    Module = CompanionGridWeb Service context roots

    Module = CompanionGrid    Rest Service context roots

    Module = CompanionGrid    Web Application context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/companion/ Auth type =server

Grid App Type = GDBC Grid App Name = GDBC

    Module = GDBCWeb Service context roots

    Module = GDBC    Rest Service context roots

    Module = GDBC    Web Application context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/h2console/ Auth type =server

Grid App Type = LSO Grid App Name = LSO

    Module = LSOWeb Service context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/Annotations/ Auth type =server

    Module = LSO    Rest Service context roots

    Module = LSO    Web Application context roots

    Module = LSOWeb Service context roots

    Module = LSO    Rest Service context roots

    Module = LSO    Web Application context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/LSO/ Auth type =server

    Module = LSOWeb Service context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/LSOWS/ Auth type =server

    Module = LSO    Rest Service context roots

    Module = LSO    Web Application context roots

Grid App Type = MI-WS Grid App Name = M3-API-WS

    Module = M3-API-WSWeb Service context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/m3api/ Auth type =server

    Module = M3-API-WS    Rest Service context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/m3api-rest/ Auth type =server

    Module = M3-API-WS    Web Application context roots

Grid App Type = M3_UI_Adapter Grid App Name = M3_UI_Adapter

    Module = M3_UI_AdapterWeb Service context roots

    Module = M3_UI_Adapter    Rest Service context roots

    Module = M3_UI_Adapter    Web Application context roots

        Url = https://potato.it.local:30006/mne/ Auth type =server

 

2013-03-31 22:43:38,699 [Mango.Main] INFO Mango.UI.Client.MangoApplication.Log – Non user specific data storage path = C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Lawson Software\Mango Client\S0

2013-03-31 22:43:38,699 [Mango.Main] INFO Mango.UI.Client.MangoApplication.Log – User specific data storage path = C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Lawson Software\Mango Client\S0\U0

2013-03-31 22:43:38,699 [Mango.Main] WARN Mango.Core.Persistance.UserEventHistoryDataBase..ctor – Could not create table for UserEventHistory.

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.5.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

File name: ‘System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.5.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’

at Mango.Core.Persistance.DataBase.IsColumnWidth(String dbTableName, String dbColumnName, Int32 length)

at Mango.Core.Persistance.UserEventHistoryDataBase..ctor()

 

After some searching I discovered that Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t install SQLServerCE 3.5 (Compact Edition) rather it installs a later version.

Smart Office tries to start, can’t find all of the files and then crashes.

So I ended up grabbing SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5sp2 and installing it
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5783

(in my instance I needed to install both the 32bit and 64bit versions and my home computer is 64bit – the installation instructions will also inform you to install both which are included in the single download).