Can not find Microsoft.SqlServer.InstApi when trying to run a SMO trace

I install the follwing components

1.Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Objects Collection

2.Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0

3.Microsoft SQL Server Native Client

(available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d09c1d60-a13c-4479-9b91-9e8b9d835cdc&DisplayLang=en)

on a clean machine with no SQL Server 2005 client tools.

I get the following error.

Failed to initialize object as reader.
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Instapi, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

A gacutil tells me that this assembly is not installed.

Is there are way to run SMO trace without having to install the 2005 client tools and only the Management Objects Collection and necessary components?

Sample code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Trace;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common;

namespace SMOTraceTestProgram
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void bStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

TraceServer smoTraceServerReader;

ConnectionInfoBase cInfoBase = new SqlConnectionInfo();
SetupConnectionInfoBase((cInfoBase as SqlConnectionInfo));

smoTraceServerReader = new TraceServer();

try
{
smoTraceServerReader.InitializeAsReader(cInfoBase, "2005NOSPIDFilter.tdf");
smoTraceServerReader.Stop();
MessageBox.Show("Trace Started and stopped successfully");
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(exception.Message);

Exception ex = exception.InnerException;
while(ex != null)
{
sb.Append(ex.Message);
ex = ex.InnerException;
}
MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString());
}

}

private void SetupConnectionInfoBase(SqlConnectionInfo sqlConnectionInfo)
{
sqlConnectionInfo.ServerName = eSeverName.Text;

if (eUserName.Text.Length > 0)
{
sqlConnectionInfo.UserName = eUserName.Text;
sqlConnectionInfo.Password = ePassword.Text;
sqlConnectionInfo.UseIntegratedSecurity = false;
}
else
{
sqlConnectionInfo.UseIntegratedSecurity = true;
}

}

}
}

I have reproduced this issue in house and can confirm that this is a problem with the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Objects Collection. We will consider this issue for inclusion in Service Pack 2.

As for workarounds, I don't have one. I tried Gac'cing the missing DLL, but there is apparently more registration required, as evidenced by the new error message I got. ("Failed to initialize object as reader.Failed to get SQL Tools directory path from InstAPI.")

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Thanks James,

Appreciate the feedback. For the time being I will get the users of my profiling tool to install management tools from the SQL Server 2005 Install. This seems to install the necessary components for SMO Trace to work.

Look forward to a fix though, as this installs a lot more than is required.

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