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This topic contains late-breaking or other important information that supplements the product documentation for Microsoft StreamInsight. Read this file completely when installing this software.

For information about the new features in this release, see What's New (StreamInsight). For information about breaking changes and behavior changes, see Backward Compatibility (StreamInsight).

What's included in this release

The Microsoft StreamInsight installation program installs the following on your computer:

  • The runtime libraries for StreamInsight.
  • The StreamInsight Event Flow Debugger for monitoring, diagnosing, and debugging StreamInsight applications.
  • The SDK to develop StreamInsight applications and adapters.

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Prerequisites

  • Install .NET Framework version 4.0, which is the minimum .NET framework version required by StreamInsight 2.0.

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Post-installation steps

After successful installation of StreamInsight, install Microsoft SQL Server Compact to persist metadata or to use checkpointing.

  1. Uninstall all prior versions of SQL Server Compact from Control Panel, Programs and Features.
  2. Install the latest version of SQL Server Compact. You can find the installation file of the required version in the redist folder in the installation directory of StreamInsight, typically C:\Program Files\Microsoft StreamInsight\redist.

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Known issues

Refer to the StreamInsight team blog for late-breaking known issues.

  1. StreamInsight requires at least Cumulative Update 4 for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 2. See above for installation instructions.
    StreamInsight does not support SQL Server Compact 4.0. However SQL Server Compact 4.0 can be installed side-by-side with SQL Server Compact 3.5.
  2. The event tracing functionality of the Event Flow Debugger is not supported on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64).
  3. If you previously installed StreamInsight in multiple languages on this computer, you also need to install this updated version of StreamInsight for each of those languages. Otherwise, those installations might not be able to display messages in the correct language.
  4. If you uninstall StreamInsight 2.0 after installing StreamInsight 1.2 and 2.0 side-by-side, you have to repair your StreamInsight 1.2 installation in order to capture traces for, or to load traces into, the Event Flow Debugger.

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Resources

  • The StreamInsight documentation in the MSDN Library provides detailed information about the product. The documentation is updated for each release.
  • The StreamInsight samples on Codeplex provide hands-on Visual Studio projects that illustrate the key concepts of StreamInsight in running code.
  • Refer to the StreamInsight team blog for late-breaking information.
  • The StreamInsight portal on MSDN contains pointers to other documentation, blogs, and samples.
  • Consult the StreamInsight forum on MSDN for technical questions and best practices.

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