First things first: I'm a newbie to VB.NET (somewhat), that has inherited this problem. This application seems to run fine when running under one pc user account, but when I copied the application to my own PC, I have the problem below.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a problem I'm having with a Pocket PC application I'm developing with VB.NET and the .NET Compact Framework. This problem occurs when I run the application against my PPC emulator. Also, you should know that I'm developing this application for SQL Server CE/SQL Server with Merge Replication.
Here's the snippet of code that's failing:
g_sAppPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase)
g_sDBPath = g_sAppPath & "\TechMobile.sdf"
...
If Not File.Exists(g_sDBPath) Then
'this evaluates to "FALSE" so we do not get this msgbox
MsgBox("Unable to import database."
GoTo Unsuccessful
End If
'compact the database
Dim engine As SqlCeEngine = New SqlCeEngine("Data Source=" & MainMod.g_sDBPath)
Try
'the following line fails --
engine.Compact("Data Source=" & g_sDBPath & ".tmp"
File.Delete(MainMod.g_sDBPath)
File.Move(g_sDBPath & ".tmp", MainMod.g_sDBPath)
engine.Dispose()
Catch ex As SqlCeException
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
The result of my "ex.Message" is:
The SQL Server CE database cannot be compacted. [,,,,,]
Any ideas why this might be? I have a feeling it might be related to Replication security, but I don't have the foggiest on how to test for that or continue.
Any help would be very...well...HELPFUL.
Thanks very much!
Steve
