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Hi has anyone used the VL 14.0 IDE on Windows 11.

I know that the supported platforms document indicates the 14.2 IDE will but we are on 14.0 and cannot upgrade at this time.

If you did get it running are there any gotchas or is it a smooth install process. Thanks in advance.

Hi Casey, from memory, while there may not be any issues installing or using the V14 IDE itself with V14, you will definitely have issues when attempting to run web pages or anything that uses the listener as per the info on LANSA V14 index page.
https://lansa.com/support/v14news/index.html
There is no way past it other than going to V14 SP2 and latest EPC /hotfix.

In all of my install attempts on Windows 11, the issue hasn't been Lansa but with MS SQL getting installed. But maybe that was just something specific on my different PC's over time. I put a couple notes in this other forum thread on my final resolution getting MS SQL installed on Windows 11.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3016

Thanks adale and Bikel. I was able to get the install to work after doing a manually install of SQL Server and few other manual things. However, what I have noticed is the following.
1. I get an error that says there is an error loading the language mappings. Not sure why. It does show all the mappings.
2. If I do an LIMPORT the descriptions don't show up. I have to manually check out the field or file.
3. I can't open WAMs because I can't get the WAM Development option of Partition Init to complete. The only issue is that the Sample WAM fails to import.

#1 and #2 can be worked around.
#3 is a show stopper. I am hoping to find a way to manually configure the internal files to tell LANSA that WAMs are enabled which will hopefully allow me to open and edit WAMs.

Any thoughts out how to do this?

I had some luck with one of my IDEs. I was able to take the database file from my Win 10 laptop and drop it onto the Win 11 laptop. After doing this and performing a system init the IDE thought it was WAM enabled and now I can open WAMs and weblets.

I tried to repeat this process for my other 3 IDEs but this time it doesn't think they are WAM enabled even though they are on Win 10 laptop.

I am going to keep trying to see if I can make the other 3 work but was hoping maybe someone out there nows if there is a registry setting, internal text file or internal database file that can be edited to tell the IDE is is WAM enabled.

One other thing I have noticed is that when I try to start up the 2nd IDE that can't be WAM enabled is that it keeps asking me to choose the language after I click on Partition Init. It doesn't do that anymore for the IDE that is now WAM enabled.

Does anyone know where the selection you make from the language popup that appears after a system init is stored? Maybe this has something to do with the issue.

I am grasping at straws now so any input is greatly appreciated.

I was able to get this issue resolved. These are the steps that I needed to follow. It requires already having installed it in the same directly on a Windows 10 laptop.

1. Install LANSA on Win 11 laptop into the same folder you used on the Win 10 laptop.
2. Apply the same EPCs applied on Win 10 laptop.
3. Stop SQL Server service.
4. Copy the database files from Win 10 laptop to Win 11 laptop.
5. Start SQL Server service.
6. Rename the DEVIDE folder on Win 11 laptop to DEVIDE_OLD
7. Copy the entire install folder (e.g. C:\LANSAIDE\DEVIDE) to the same location on Win 11 laptop.
8. Start the IDE and run the system init it asks you to.
9. Cancel out of the sign in popup.
10. Manually register the 3 WAM dlls below.
10a. regsvr32 WAMEditor.dll
10b. regsvr32 WAMHTMLEditor.dll
10c. regsvr32 WAMTextEditor.dll
11. Start the IDE and verify that you can see the XSL for WAMs and weblets.