SQL 2022 SSMS 20 "smo does not appear to be installed on this computer"

ClearTrace
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I have the latest version of ClearTraceXE and I am trying to run it on a new Windows 2022 SQL 2022 instance with SSMS 20. The SMO is installed, it is version 16.0.0.0 and I have verified SMO and .NET runtime & framework is installed.
I have updated ClearTraceXE.exe.config with this line:
”bindingRedirect oldVersion="14.0.0.0" newVersion="16.0.0.0" /” as instructed in the Readme file.

I get the following error:
"smo does not appear to be installed on this computer"

How do I fix this?

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This Powershell command shows the following version is installed:

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I really don’t have a good way to support this app anymore.

The last version of SMO that supported reading trace files is 13.0. If you can get that installed and update the XML file to match you may have a chance. But once MS took that functionality out of SMO, there really isn’t much I can do.

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Thanks for the reply. Bummer about good ol’ Microsoft changing stuff :frowning:
We do have ClearTraceXE working with SSMS 19 SMOs which I think are v 15.0.0.0 so we’ll have to decide if it is worth keeping SSMS 19 on our machines in order to keep using ClearTraceXE.

Thanks again for a handy product and the response to my support question.