VS2010 Connection Dialog GAC Error in Windows XP

Question

All,

I am using the VS2010 database connection dialog that Microsoft have released (download from here). I am using this without any problems on Windows 7. However, when I install the application on Windows XP (using the 'Publish' option in VS2010) I get the following error

Using NSIS, the application installs but upon trying to launch the VS2010 dialog I get the following error

Clearly the first error is telling me what the problem is, but as I have never come across this before I am not sure what I can do to address/fix it. Could this be associated with not using the manifest correctly?

As always any help is most appreciated.

Answer 1

Seems that in your Windows XP is missing the library for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 You could download the bits from here