how to get started about sambapos-3

[mckuipers]

Not the full answer, but I tried this as well and got stuck...

Downloaded Visual Studio Express 2013 for windows desktop
Opened the project SambaPos.sln
F5 to debug

I get the SambaPos welcome splash screen then the error:
"An exception of type 'System.Data.EntityCommandExecutionException' occurred in System.Data.Entity.dll but was not handled in user code"

On continue, this error is repeated

Then I get a Column name is not valid

Then
An exception of type 'System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.dll but was not handled in user code

Then I realised that the database was not created. So did an install of the setup from http://www.sambapos.org/en/downloads build 34.
This produced a 'An exception occurered while intialising the database'.

After this failed run of the downloaded build 34, I was able to get the same error in the studio.
The code in the call stack just before the error is:
base.InitializeShell();

        try
        {
            var creationService = new DataCreationService();
            creationService.CreateData();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(LocalSettings.ConnectionString))
            {
                var connectionString =
                    InteractionService.UserIntraction.GetStringFromUser(
                    "Connection String",
                    string.Format(Resources.ConnectionStringError, e.Message),
                    LocalSettings.ConnectionString);

                var cs = String.Join(" ", connectionString);

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cs))
                    LocalSettings.ConnectionString = cs.Trim();

                logger.LogError(e, Resources.RestartAppError);
            }
            else
            {
                logger.LogError(e);

Please advice how to proceed.

Thanks
Marco

[WantAGeek]

It sounds more like a problem with the SQL instance. I've just downloaded the latest versions and it's running fine (I am using VS 2013 Pro though). I followed this tutorial to set up the DB, it may help http://sambapos.org/wiki/doku.php/en/installing_sql_express_2012_for_sambapos_v3