Re: Problems with MCxAP (moved from UKHA_D)

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to say mine was a 'new' MCE machine and I installed SP2 and all
updates that update manager advised and then your MCxAP installer and it
all worked fine...I wonder what's different.

Kevin

Stuart Booth wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:59:16 +0100, "Keith Finnett"
<keith@xxxxxxx>
>wrote:
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>>>That one is probably a red herring and may not actually be
used. I use
>>>it for debug trace output. But I'll send you a copy offlist
just in
>>>case. I assume the email address above is okay?
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>>I've downloaded the NSpring files, but send it over and we'll be on
the same
>>version, etc.. That address is good.
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>No need, they're all the same. It hasn't changed in a looong while
>now.
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>>>Is there anything odd about your MCE version that you know of?
It's
>>>the 2005 version I assume for instance?
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>>Nope - MCE 2005, downloaded from my MSDN Universal subscription. It
has SP2
>>applied.
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>Oh, that's interesting. I haven't applied any recent roll-up security
>patches for MCE lately - or did you mean XP SP2? That's something I'll
>have to try too.
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>>One more thing I checked is that it appears in the list of add-ins
in the
>>GUI. It does, and it's checked so MCE thinks it is there.
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>Curious. I would have expected the log files to appear in that case. I
>looked at mine on starting MCE and they have entries from today so
>it's certainly actively updated.
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>>I just tried this, and it successfully unregistered and registered,
but no
>>difference.
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>Oh darn. Well I think that means I need a new build with some data
>logging being output for us to move on. Give me a few days as it's
>somewhat involved getting new code working under MCE. I write the code
>under VS2003, copy to another machine with VS2002 (MCE uses .NET v1.0
>natively) to build it, copy to a virtual PC image of MCE for testing
>(to save sprinting up and downstairs), then lastly install on my live
>MCE machine for final testing. It's the test MCE system that's
>knackered right now.
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>S
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