Earlier I posted on the fact that getting the SalesLogix web client working on vista not quite possible at this time. I am really happy to say that after some poking, a little log browsing an a google search I now have it working correctly.
To figure out what was going wrong for me I turned on assembly binding logs (fuslogvw.exe) , choosing to only log failures. I set the log path to a simple c:\log directory. Since I really only cared about the failure at this time I turned on ‘Only log bind failures to disk’.
Running this utility will add some settings into the registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion
DWORD LogFailures – will store a value of 1 meaning to log bindings (you can change this to 0 to disable logging)
SZ LogPath – Location to log the binding failures
I then tried to open the web site where an error was reported. I went into the log folder that I designated and noticed a file for dtSearchNetApi2 and opened it discovering that the assembly was found but a HRESULT was being returned with the value of 0x800700b. This is where google came in and I discovered that the issue I was having was with regards to 64 bit app pool and 32 bit interop.
More so I was able to easily find an answer to my problem and got it working.
So, to get it working on a 64 bit machine there are 2 things you have to do;
1. Ensure that the site AppPool is setup with Classic Asp.net
2. On 64 bit machines since there is some COM Interop interacting with 32 bit dll’s you will need to enable 32 bit application pools.
Type the following at a command line prompt
cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
To turn off the 32 bit application pool change the last value to a 0
cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0
Thanks to Ryan Hoffman for information about this setting.
– Mark