DevExpress.XtraGrid.GridControl Threw an Exception

[Tom Harris]

Hi there,

I think I understand what is going wrong here and it looks like DevExpress are to blame. They have released .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 builds of their 6.3 components. These completely different binaries have identical versioning information.

When you run SQL Compare on a machine that only has .NET 2.0 installed it attempts to load in the .NET 2.0 versions of the dlls from the GAC. This causes the crash.

I will chase this up with DevExpress. Apologies for the inconvience.

Tom Harris

Red Gate Software

// Assembly DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3, Version 6.3.1.0


Location: C:\Program Files\Developer Express .NET 2005 v6.3\Sources\DevExpress.DLL\DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3.dll
Name: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3, Version=6.3.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=79868b8147b5eae4
Type: Library


// Assembly DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3, Version 6.3.1.0


Location: C:\Program Files\Developer Express .NET v6.3\Sources\DevExpress.DLL\DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3.dll
Name: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v6.3, Version=6.3.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=79868b8147b5eae4
Type: Library

[aprenot]

I was experiencing exactly the same issue. I do not have the DevExpress controls installed, but I was still getting the TypeInitializationException on Vista Ultimate. I installed the 1.1 redist and everything works fine now.

Aaron Prenot

[bdsutton]

I loaded .Net 1.1 and Compare and DataCompare work fine now. Thanks for the tip.

Chris

[Jonathan Watts]

This issue should have been resolved by the SQL Compare 6 Beta, which is available here:

http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewtopic.php?t=4836

Regards,

Jonathan
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Jonathan Watts

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-Red Gate Software Ltd