Problem launching TestStand 2012

[danwhite]

Mattias,

I googled the error message that you are seeing and it looks as if a number of other people are having this problem with the Visual Studio 2010 Shell. Here are a couple of articles and threads discussing the problem and suggesting workarounds:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/520110/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/00a28bbf-8e2f-48a4-8aee-ad...

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/780685/invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-...

Hopefully one of these workarounds will work for you.

To answer your question, these are the versions I was testing with:

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 11.0.3128.0
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 11.0.3128.0
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 6.1.7601.17514
Microsoft MSXML 3.0 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0.7601.17514
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.30319.233
Operating System 6.1.7601

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell 10.0.40219

Please let me know if any of these solve your problem.

- Danny

[plf]

Mattias,

I have the same issue with TestStand and SQL Server Express 2012.

Did you ever find a True solution???

Thanks,

Pete

[Mattias_Ericsson]

Hi,

No, still got the problem. Really annoying. NI couldn't repeat the problem, but I get it on all computers.

Please post back if you find a solution.

Mattias

[plf]

Mattias,

Yes this is annoying! I had TestStand 2013 installed with SQL Server Express 2008 and everything worked nicely, as soon as I upgraded to SQL Server Express 2012 I get this annoying popup everytime I run either program.

Will post back if I find a solution.

Pete

[plf]

Mattias,

I might have found a possible workaround to this issue by accident.

1. Uninstall SQL Server 2012 Express

2. Open TestStand and verify that the popup with the license error is gone.

3. Now re-install SQL Server 2012 Express with TestStand still open. I actually had LabVIEW open too as I had executed a sequence file earlier.

4. After installation completes close TestStand and LabVIEW.

5. Launched TestStand again, a similar popup was briefly displayed stating something about logging in but it went away before I could actually read it.

6. Close TestStand and relaunch it, there should be no annoying popup.

It would appear that having TestStand open prevents SQL Server Express 2012 from updating something with the Visual Studio 2010 Shell license. Surprisingly there were no errors reported by the SQL Server Express Installation either. 

Let me know if you have the same results.

pete 

[BigDan]

This same bug exists in TestStand 2014 and the solution of replacing the ToolboxInstaller.exe with a simple program that does nothing other than return 0 as an exitcode worked for me.

[mwatkins]

Hi, 

TestStand 2014 here with same problem. Un-installing 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Isolated)' worked for me. Thanks for the tip! 

-Matt