Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Blank message box when starting SQL Server Management Studio

A couple of my colleagues were having a problem when starting Management Studio. Everytime the application started it would show a blank messagebox with just an OK button. Apparently this can be caused by installing the .NET Framework 1.1 (or one of it's updates) after the .NET Framework 2.0.









The SQL Server 2005 readme has the solution (although the problem description is not exactly the same - it seems to help in this case too):
  1. In Control Panel, open Add or Remove Programs.
  2. Click Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
  3. Click Change/Remove.
  4. Click Repair, and then click Next.
  5. When the repair is completed, restart the computer if you are prompted to do this

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Worked for me!

WesleyB said...

Great news!
Glad the post could be of service ;-)

Anonymous said...

I had a similar problem. .NET 2.0 did want to repair or uninstall for it was used by some progms, but I repaired .NET 3.5 SP1 (my latest) and worked fine! Thanks for the tip ;)

WesleyB said...

I am glad it helped.
Thank YOU for the tip when .NET 3.5 is installed, I am sure many people have this version installed right now.

Anonymous said...

Thank you! fyi - I had to copy the shortcut of the SQL Server Management Studio in the start menu again.
Best Regards
M

Anonymous said...

Sweet. This worked for me as well when I did "change" for .NET 2.0 SP1. My problem started when I was doing a different install and had to reboot and forgot SSMS was open and had to force it to close.

Alex said...

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Ljubomir Djokic said...

This started after .NET Framework 1.1 update (although I had .NET 3.5 installed at that time). Repair of .NET 3.5 solved this mysterious message box problem. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Thank You :)