Designer SDK does not work on Windows 7 64 bit platform.

sdk development
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Hi,

I am installing BO client on my new portable which is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. My old PC is running on XP SP3 32 bit.

I have installed first XIR2 on both machines.

a basic test with vba automation , which works on my old portable and fails on my new machine with as error : Runtime error 430: Class does not support automation or does not support expected interface. :cry:

I thought that R2 might not be supported on windows 7 so I downloaded BI Edge from the SAP site and installed on both machines.
and I get the same results when executing the same test. :reallymad:

I also tried reinstalling as Administrator to no avail. :hb:

any ideas .

gmaerten :belgium: (BOB member since 2009-12-15)

2

Well, its completely unsupportedā€¦;).
Maybe you can try running it in compatability mode?

Mak 1 :uk: (BOB member since 2005-01-06)

3

OK Cool,

I will check running in compatibility mode .

I seem to have an other investigation route.
It seems that running 32 bit interfaces on 64 bit platforms need to register on different places in the registry than plain 32 bit on 32.
so if the registry keys are just pushed in by the installer they have an issue , but it needs investigation.

gmaerten :belgium: (BOB member since 2009-12-15)

4

Well, hopefully, compatability mode should take this into account.

Mak 1 :uk: (BOB member since 2005-01-06)

5

Compatibility mode gives no help.

I have tested the manual unregistration / registration with the parameters /Unregserver /Regserver in which he registered the type library correctly in the registry .
this means the registration process is OK on win64 platform.

I will try some tools to dig a little deeper on the type library side.

gmaerten :belgium: (BOB member since 2009-12-15)

6

Woohoo I got it working again.

So in order to debug issues like this you need to get OLE view which will point to the real problem.

Depending on the Issues that arose on my PC needed the following modification :

  • Select the designer program in compatibility mode XP SP3 using the properties .

this can help up to a point after that you can run into UAC and security issues if there are things that are conflicting with the new security model.

if so you can set the designer program to run with administrative priviledges in the properties.

and if that still does not fix it you add the autoelevation flag in the registy on the APP Class ID .

The starting point is OLE view for this problem rootcause and then google for the solution.

gmaerten :belgium: (BOB member since 2009-12-15)

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Gaetan,

Thanks for the update, this is bound to help someone elseā€¦

Cheers,

Mark.

Mak 1 :uk: (BOB member since 2005-01-06)