I recently upgraded my machine to Vista x64, and now I cannot use the EntitySpaces templates in CodeSmith.  I have tried the following without success.

1.  Installed EntitySpaces with the Administrator account.

2.  Stopped the Windows Search service to uninstall/install EntitySpaces.MetadataEngine.dll in the GAC.

3.  Copied the EntitySpaces.MetadataEngine.dll file to CodeSmith's bin folder.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

Have you tried running CodeSmith as Administrator and generating?

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David Neal Parsons
www.entityspaces.net

David - there wasn't an option to run the installer or CodeSmith as the administrator.

Thanks,

Steve

Hi Steve

To run as an administrator you need to right click the exe file (it may work with the shortcut too - not sure) and select the "Run as Administrator" option - this elevates the priveleges that the app runs under. 

Cheers

Martin

Good morning, Martin.

I tried your suggestion but I was unsuccessful. 

Thanks,

Steve

Hi Steve

Is the Metadata dll actually installed in the GAC? I see from your post on the codesmith forum that you got an Access Denied message when you tried to do that - did you manage to get past that and install ok in the GAC?

Also, having just done a quick google, the following might help

Firstly check the following blog post which has some very useful info in it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2003/05/29/57120.aspx

Secondly, in order to trouble shoot this, I would:

1) turn on Assembly Binding logging to see where Codesmith is trying to locate the dll in case that offers any assistance (instructions on how to do that are in the above post)

2) Use the log viewer to see the results of 1) - see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e74a18c4(VS.80).aspx for that

3) There is a comment in the blog post about not checking the GAC for assemblies where the full name isn't given (your error message stack trace shows a call to System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadWithPartialNameInternal so it might not be looking in the GAC anyway) - if that's the case then finding out where it IS looking may help you know where the dll needs to sit

Hope that helps

Martin

You can also throw the EntitySpaces.MetadataEngine.dll in the CodeSmith\Bin folder, that's how we ran it before we started installing it in the GAC.

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I see in step (3) of your original post, that you already tried that. When you do, do you get the same FileNotFoundException as in your post on the CodeSmith forums, or does it change to a BadImageFormatException?

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David Neal Parsons
www.entityspaces.net

Also, at what point does the error occur? Can you see the template UI, or connect to a database? Which database are you using?

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David Neal Parsons
www.entityspaces.net

I found a solution for my issue.  Once I ran the command listed the article listed below, the EntitySpaces templates functioned correctly in CodeSmith Studio.

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/phoenix/thread/9a43e9a1-a744-4a1a-bb34-3604254c126b/