Deployment Error.

FISH786

Please can someone help. I am trying to run an application on a machine that does not have Visual Studio 2008 installed. I am getting an error message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem." It's only a one dialog application. Nothing fancy. The controls used are combo boxes, edit control, static text control and list control. I have installed the distributable libraries on this machine. I have compiled my code under release mode. Update the machine with all patches from Microsoft update as well. I used the setup and deployment wizard too to see if that would solve my problem. What else could I have missed? Can someone please help.

chirag_chauhan

Are you trying to run Debug/Release version?? Debug version will cause lot of these kind of problems.

Cedric Moonen

FISH786 wrote:

I have installed the distributable libraries on this machine.

How did you do that exactly ? TO be able to run such an application on a machine were Visual Studio is not installed, you need to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable package[^] on the target machine. This takes care of installing the required libraries (C run-time and MFC libraries). You can't do the same as with VC6: simply copying manually some files won't work.

Cédric Moonen Software developer
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FISH786

Cedric Moonen wrote:

you need to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable package[^] on the target machine.

Yes, I read about that when I searched for this error before posting this message. Not sure what else to do, even reinstalled the operating system, got all the current updates. and installed the redistributable and yes I did compile it in the release instead of debug. Are there any options that need to be changed when I do a release compile. I even tried a new project created by the wizard same result in the realease mode. Do I have to change any other options when in release mode?