Administrator installs and ECO + RadStudio



The ECO installer writes a few things to the registry during startup. The build that shipped with RadStudio 2007 (4.0.0.91) only inserted the registry entries in HKCU (CurrentUser), but later builds also inserts the values into HKLM (local machine). This means that RadStudio will copy the values to the CurrentUser registry the first time the user starts RadStudio.

If you have already started RadStudio without the ECO registry settings in HKLM, you now have a registry key called HKCU\Software\Borland\BDS\5.0 that doesn't contain ECO settings, and it will be solved by installing the newer builds since RadStudio only copies the registry settings from HKLM if HKCU is empty.

These are your options:

Alternative 1:
* Remove the registry key HKCU\Software\Borland\BDS\5.0
* Restart RadStudio

pro: easy
con: you loose lots of other settings in RadStudio

Alternative 2:
* insert the following keys manually:
 Key  HKCU\Software\Borland\BDS\5.0\Known Assemblies
 Name  C:\Program Files\CapableObjects\ECO\4.0\Design\BDS\Eco.Vcl.Design.dll
 Value  Eco - VCL designtime support
   
 Key  HKCU\Software\Borland\BDS\5.0\Known IDE Assemblies
 Name  C:\Program Files\CapableObjects\ECO\4.0\Design\BDS\Eco.BdsLoader.dll
 Value  Eco - IDE integration

pro: Enables ECO without loosing any settings
con: A tad more work than the first solution

Created den 22 maj 2008 by Jonas Högström
http://www.capableobjects.com/apps/InstantKB13/KnowledgebaseArticle50014.aspx