Windows XP can't start my application
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Hi I'm currently developing graphics manipulation program with GDI+ under Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC - the language is Visual Basic. I'm writing the program on my laptop and I test it on my desktop PC, my desktop PC is: OS: Windows Xp SP2 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 CPU: 1.8GHz P4 Northwood RAM 1GB My Laptop is: TravelMate 5720G OS: Windows 7 Ultimate .NET Framework 4 The application I'm developing uses GDI+ for all graphics manipulations. My project framework is .NET 3.5 SP1. The compiled executable used to work fine on my old desktop PC, but today I tried to start it and windows XP gave me the following error: '(myprogram)has encountered a problem and needs to close. Send Error Report/Don't send' The program I'm developing is for educational purposes in educational centre near my town and there teachers have only two PC with windows vista and others run on XP, so its very important for me to get my app working on XP. Thank you in advance.
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Are you trying to run a 'release' compile? If so, uninstall and install a 'debug' compile - you should get a more meaningful error message concerning an unhandled error.
No, it is not from 'Release' directory its from 'Debug' and there is no problem with exceptions, because if the problem were exception, then the error message window would look like this: http://www.comlinktechnologies.com/error.JPG[^] but the error window i get looks like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YxqJFnCxl14/Se8CsD4nmEI/AAAAAAAAAIY/pVsP55EUl3c/s400/excel.bmp[^]
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No, it is not from 'Release' directory its from 'Debug' and there is no problem with exceptions, because if the problem were exception, then the error message window would look like this: http://www.comlinktechnologies.com/error.JPG[^] but the error window i get looks like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YxqJFnCxl14/Se8CsD4nmEI/AAAAAAAAAIY/pVsP55EUl3c/s400/excel.bmp[^]
is that Excel screenshot just an example of the kind of dialog, or is it actually Excel having a problem? you do know Office automation is tricky, and particular to each and every version of Office? you cannot assume a solution that automates Office 2003 to also work on Office 2007 or 2010, they are not compatible. please try and provide more detailed and more accurate information, so somebody can provide specific help. :)
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No, it is not from 'Release' directory its from 'Debug' and there is no problem with exceptions, because if the problem were exception, then the error message window would look like this: http://www.comlinktechnologies.com/error.JPG[^] but the error window i get looks like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YxqJFnCxl14/Se8CsD4nmEI/AAAAAAAAAIY/pVsP55EUl3c/s400/excel.bmp[^]
O.G.I. wrote:
but the error window i get looks like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_YxqJFnCxl14/Se8CsD4nmEI/AAAAAAAAAIY/pVsP55EUl3c/s400/excel.bmp\[^\]
In which case, I presume the application is crashing immediately on starting. Is this the case?
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O.G.I. wrote:
but the error window i get looks like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_YxqJFnCxl14/Se8CsD4nmEI/AAAAAAAAAIY/pVsP55EUl3c/s400/excel.bmp\[^\]
In which case, I presume the application is crashing immediately on starting. Is this the case?
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The screenshot I provided are just example of the kind of error dialog I get. And yes the application crashes right on the startup.
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O.G.I. wrote:
And yes the application crashes right on the startup.
In that case, I suggest you follow Luc Pattyn's original suggestion of using a try/catch block, and provide the error message so people can have a look at it.
This is all code that resides inside Form_Load event: imgMain.AllowDrop = True 'picture box control strDefDir = My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer, True) Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, True) Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, True) Me.UpdateStyles() penRegionPen = New Pen(Brushes.Black, intCropPenSize) penMyPen = New Pen(Brushes.Lime, intCropPenSize) penMyPen.DashStyle = DashStyle.Solid penMyPen.Width = 1 I've put this iside 'Try.. End Try' statement but the problem still exist and it gives me this error window(this time i put the original error window, sorry for showing it so late, I didn't thought that the problem might be so serious): http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=jmddjtvzzjm[^] And this error is occuring only on my Win XP machine, on my Win 7 laptop there is no problems at all. This is all references that my project uses: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.VS System System.Core System.Data System.Data.DataSetExtensions System.Deployment System.Drawing System.Windows.Forms System.Xml System.Xml.Linq Tommorow I'm going to test my applications on other XP machines, I hope that the problem is in my PC and not in the application...
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This is all code that resides inside Form_Load event: imgMain.AllowDrop = True 'picture box control strDefDir = My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer, True) Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, True) Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, True) Me.UpdateStyles() penRegionPen = New Pen(Brushes.Black, intCropPenSize) penMyPen = New Pen(Brushes.Lime, intCropPenSize) penMyPen.DashStyle = DashStyle.Solid penMyPen.Width = 1 I've put this iside 'Try.. End Try' statement but the problem still exist and it gives me this error window(this time i put the original error window, sorry for showing it so late, I didn't thought that the problem might be so serious): http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=jmddjtvzzjm[^] And this error is occuring only on my Win XP machine, on my Win 7 laptop there is no problems at all. This is all references that my project uses: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.VS System System.Core System.Data System.Data.DataSetExtensions System.Deployment System.Drawing System.Windows.Forms System.Xml System.Xml.Linq Tommorow I'm going to test my applications on other XP machines, I hope that the problem is in my PC and not in the application...
Look for your program.vb file and give that one a try-catch, as I said earlier. It will catch many more potential problems as a safety net, not as a remedy, and probably tell you what your current problem is. :)
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Look for your program.vb file and give that one a try-catch, as I said earlier. It will catch many more potential problems as a safety net, not as a remedy, and probably tell you what your current problem is. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
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Oh gosh I finally solved the problem it is in this reference: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.VS I was using print to file option of the PrintForm dialog in Visual basic power packs when I remove that reference everything start working fine again and now I'll made it before the deadline, thank you for all advices :) :) :)
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Oh gosh I finally solved the problem it is in this reference: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.VS I was using print to file option of the PrintForm dialog in Visual basic power packs when I remove that reference everything start working fine again and now I'll made it before the deadline, thank you for all advices :) :) :)
Still, the issue is your program should have told you what was the problem, by testing return values on system calls that don't throw exceptions, and reporting exceptions when they occur, and not by dying silently. :)
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