Greg Have you looked at the Registry on both (32-bit/64-bit), under Visual Studio DataProviders? It may be a quicker comparison.
I have only VS2010 installed, the key being [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\DataProviders ] - _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:17 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider * fuslogvw.exe shows no binding failures when my app crashes on the test machine. * I compared the fusion logs of one that works and one that fails and there are subtle differences, but there is no way of knowing what's right or wrong. * I've compared the GAC contents of the two machines and their data components seem quite similar. * I used procmon.exe to try and find file-not-found errors, but after tediously filtering down I can't find anything obvious. * The event logs show nothing related to my problem. So this seemingly trivial error has me completely stumped. The worst and most irritating thing is that despite hours of stuffing around I can't even find a clear clue anywhere about what data provider is actually missing. I will have to write small experimental programs which incrementally introduce new dependencies to iterate towards an answer. That's an absurd waste of time. Greg
