winforms examples on 64 bit vista

[Arthur R Clark Jr]

Hello.  I'm brand new to Telerik controls so I hope I can keep stupid questions to a minimum.

I just installed newly purchased Telerik Controls Premium and am trying to run the example application on my Windows Vista Business 64 bit development laptop.  I am receiveing the message "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine." for examples that use the database.

I found this topic in the KB, but it is specific to the ASP controls.

Is there a solution for the Winforms examples?

Thanks for your help.

Joe

[John]

Hi Arthur,
    Yes, the problem stems from the fact that the MS Jet engine (the DB engine behind Microsoft Access) does not have a 64-bit version. The solution is to configure the application to target 32 bit.

1. Go to the "Telerik" | "RadControls for WinForms Q3 2008" folder in the Start Menu
2. Select the "Open C# Solution in Visual Studio" entry in the menu
3. Open the Project Properties
   1. Go to the "Build" tab
   2. Set the "Platform target" to "x86"
   3. Close the Project Properties
4. Build the solution
5. Close Visual Studio
6. Go to the "Telerik" | "RadControls for WinForms Q3 2008" folder in the Start Menu
7. Select the "RadControls for WinForms Examples" entry

You should be able to run the examples from this point on on Vista 64-bit.  If you have any problems please post them here.

I hope this helps,
John

[Joe]

Thanks very much for your quick reply John.  Are you a Telerik support person?  Don't want to impose on you.

I tried what you suggested, but the problem is still occurring.  The only variance from your suggested steps was that VS 2008 upgraded the project when I opened it.

I have screen shots of the results, if there is some way to show them to you.  

(BTW, the initial post was posted from a different person's login - Arthur is our purchasing agent.)

Joe

 

[Vassil Petev]

Hello Joe,

Feel free to send us some screenshots in a new support ticket.

 
Best wishes,
Nick
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[John]

Hi Joe,
     I am a Developer Evangelist for Telerik so while I am not technically a "support person" you are by no means imposing.  The upgrade to VS2008 should have not impacted the recommendation I provided.  I run on Vista 64 bit and VS2008, so not sure what might be the problem.  I recommend you submit a support ticket.  This will allow someone to work with you more closely to resolve the issue.

Thanks,
John

[Joe]

I'll do that.  Thanks.  I'm sure its just something I'm missing.

[PHIL KOCHAN]

I have the exact same problem as the guys below (Vista 64 bit w/ SQL 2008).  I tried the fix suggeste below, but have the same problem.

Did you guys do a ticket and get it fixed?

PHil

[Mike]

Hello PHIL KOCHAN,

This problem is related to older versions of Telerik WinForms demo application, which by default is build with Any CPU platform settings. This results in problems with jet DB on 64 bit OS.

One solution to this problem would be to rebuild the demo application using x86 platform. Nevertheless Is strongly recommend you to download and try the latest version of RadControls for WinForms, which has the Demo app preconfigured and working as expected on 64 bit configurations.

Sincerely yours,
Mike
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[PHIL KOCHAN]

Dear Mike,

I just downloaded this version of the Winforms Demo.2 days ago 9/19/2009 from your site, so I doubt that there is a newer version out in the last day? :) 

The demo  says Q2 2009 and the controls are versioned: 2009.2.9.729. 

Phil

[Mike]

Hi PHIL KOCHAN,

In this case your problem is elsewhere. Can you please describe it in a greater detail?

Kind regards,
Mike
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