Problems setting up Shape Studio

[Visi3D]

Hello,

I have not been able to get Shape Studio to work. I have read "Readme
ShapeStudio.htm"

I am working on a Vista Ulitimate machine. I have installed: Visio 2007, the
Visio 2007 SDK, SQL Express 2005.

I then created a system DSN (SysShapeStudioDsn) to the default instance of
SQLEXPRESS and launched the SSAdmin utility. It had the following settings:

Database Name: ShapeStudio
Database Location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data
Data Source Name: SysShapeStudioDsn

Though the readme explicitly states "The ShapeStudio Database Administration
tool creates an MSDE database running on the user’s computer," I thought I'd
give it a shot on the SQLExpress DB. It did not work. It "can't connect to MS
SQL Server".

Then I figured I would just create the database myself through MS SQL Server
Management Studio Express. Did so and then opened the SStudio.sql file and
executed it against the ShapeStudio database.

Next I launched Visio 2007 and clicked Shape Studio.. Clicked Add (next to
data source) and it crashes Visio.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Gary

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

As for me, it works just fine with sql server express 2005, Visio
2007, Visio 2007 SDK.
This means, there should be no fatal problems, actually

Have you allowed the access your sql server 2005 database? You might
have the problem with (enhanced?) 2005 server security.
Try opeing your database in management studio, open the "Security"
node, and add "BUILTIN\Users" to the list of users allowed to access
your database (as db_owner role).
This might help

Kind regards, Nikolay.