I compiled my executable that used the Access Database Engine libraries on Windows XP 32bit.
Running that on the Win7 x64 OS gave me an error that the OLEDB components were not registered.
I tried to install the AccessDatabaseEngine x64 and it fixed the problem.
However on another machine with Win7 x64 and office 2007 32bit installed, it wouldn't let me install the AccessDatabaseEngine x64 and so I was left to compile the project on that target machine (in VS2010 c#) with the Env as x64 and target CPU as x86. This fixed the problem.
My question is, why does this work? What's the reasoning behind this?
Thanks.
The answer your question what you are stating means that there for one is a different OS but should not matter.. the real issue here is that there are 2 different versions of Microsoft Installed.. you would have to either
GAC the version or Reference the version of the Target Machine
Set Copy Local of the .DLL in the working version to the Target version.. sort of like where your DLL's would reside in the Debug/Bin or Debug/Release folder where the bin folder resides..
I am working on Windows 7 64 bit and copied my working dll's over to a Windows 2003 server machine and my projects still work..
my other work around was to reference the Microsoft.Interop.Access .dll's from the Target machine into my Solution, recompile and Bam....!
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I use SQLite and works fine on the developer machine (or machine with Visual Studio).
But it does not work on PCs without VS. I "installed" the SQLite manually (32 bit version, added to the references, Copy Local: True). I get "System.IO.FileNotFoundException" System.Data.SQLite.dll exception.
The System.Data.SQLite.dll is in the output folder.
But I can not get it to work only if I install the SQLite with this: https://system.data.sqlite.org/downloads/1.0.105.2/sqlite-netFx46-setup-bundle-x86-2015-1.0.105.2.exe
Dev PC: x64 Win 10, application: x86 only
Please let me know if you need any other information.
Check which dependencies has your executable file (and, maybe, System.Data.SQLite.dll) with Dependency Walker or similar program. Then put these libraries you found into executable's folder one by one, until your executable will work.
You need to make sure the 64 bit C++ runtime DLLs are getting installed. They'll often be on the developer's system but not as often installed by your installer on the target system. Even though this is a .NET assembly, it appears to have C++ underpinnings.
I've currently used the System.Data.SQLite DLL in a .NET 4.0 x86 WinForms app. This is causing an issue on one of my client's PCs although I cannot reproduce this bug on my system. Both systems are 32bit Windows 7. How do I solve this? Things I've tried:
Installing .NET 4.0 (the app is .NET 4)
Installing all possible VC++ Runtime versions from 2005 to 2012
Installing this particular VC++ Runtime that SQLite needs (fixed a similar issue on my PC)
Adding the useLegacyRuntime attribute in the app.config XML
The error looks wierd because my app is obfuscated. The app works on my 32-bit PC and on my 64-bit development PC. It fails on a client machine. What can I do to solve this error?
In your project, solution explorer expands the Reference section and right click System.Data.SQLite then open properties, in the properties window, make sure copy local is set true . After that rebuild your project and run your client machine again
Turns out my SQLite DLL was outdated. I downloaded the latest from here and rebuilt my app with it. It worked on my PC as well as the client's. I had to install VC++ Runtime 2005 x32 on the Client Machine as well.
I am building ASP.NET application with C# and I want to connect to oracle database.
I have added reference to Oracle.DataAccess in my application on my 64bit Microsoft Window Server 2008 machine.
I also installed ODAC (Oracle Data Access Component) on my machine
and Oracle.DataAccess.dll is also present on this path
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64\Oracle.DataAccess
but when i'm trying to connect i encounter following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess, Version=4.112.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
As far as I know, the Oracle.DataAccess assembly works only with 32 bits, I also have this kind of problem with 64 bits and it really does not work. My solution was remove the 64bits from GAC and install the 32 bits on GAC. I also remove any .dll file in the bin folder to my application find the assembly on GAC.
There is no problem if your machine and operational system is 64bits, the 32bits version will work fine.
UPDATE
I recommend you take a look at Official Oracle ODP.NET, Managed Driver, that is a better version than Oracle.DataAccess. This Managed Driver does not need the Oracle Client on the machine, and you just need to provide the TNS on the DataSource field of the connection string and it works fine for 32 and 64 bits.
You need to install both x64 and x86 versions of Oracle, because something (I think it was Visual Studio) uses the x86 version when debugging.
In VS2010, I changed the platform target to x64 and this error message disappear.
essentially same error
missing ODP.NET installation components as per last post from me and the other answer participant.
You check the GAC yet?
If you do not see Oracle.xxx folders,
you are not making any headway.
put the correct version and bit of Oracle.DataAccess.dll into the application /BIN folder and make local reference. It solves many problems.
To run your website, you must use IIS since visual studio's development server only runs in 32 bit mode.
In IIS application pool, set your application to run in 64 bit. (The setting is in advanced settings)
To resolve this error, I set my app pool in IIS to allow 32bit applications.
Open up IIS Manager, right click on the app pool, and select Advanced Settings --> set “Enable 32-bit Applications” to True. It's working fine for me.
I got the same exception on a c# console app. What solved it for me is to change the platform target to x86. (project properties => build )
As title suggests I am compiling C# app using VS 2012 on a 64-bit machine. I would like the program being built to run on a 32-bit machine.
Right now the only help I found online was for:
Menu>Build>Configuration>
Active Solution Platform defaulted to Any CPU, and I tried that but didn't work on 32-bit machine (unless I did something wrong)
Tried Add a new one to the Debug configuration for platform x86 with build checked
Compiled and ran the app on 32-bit machine getting error A.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
My above was similar to what was done here: Link to Stack Overflow Similar Question
UPDATE 1:
The target OS is WinXP SP3 but we dont believe it has .NET 4.5 on it. I will be testing to see if compiling earlier ver of the app in .NET 4.0 will solve the problem and fix the problem. The problem may not be what the error message is displaying.
Setting your project to target AnyCPU should allow it to run on a 32bit machine, provided you aren't using a library which loads 64bit native code. If you have any dependencies, you'll need to make sure to use AnyCPU or 32-bit versions of those dependencies, as well. Also, make sure you have the proper .NET Framework installed on the 32bit machine (.NET 4.5 by default, if you're using VS 2012 with a new project).
Note that the default in VS 2012 for new projects is AnyCPU, with the Prefer 32 Bit option checked. This will cause it to always run as a 32bit application, even on your 64bit OS.
Note that, since your friend is running XP sp3, you can't use .NET 4.5. .NET 4.5 is not supported on Windows XP. You will need to change your application to target .NET 4.0, which will then work on the XP machine (if he installs the 4.0 framework).
That error is the Win32 error ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT. It's generated by the loader and is what happens when you try to run a 64 bit process on a 32 bit operating system. There are other ways to see that error, but this is by far the most common reason for it to occur on a .exe file.
To compile a 32 bit process you need to target x86 in your project configuration. Another alternative would be to target AnyCPU. That will result in a 32 bit process when executed on a 32 bit OS, and a 64 bit process when executed on a 64 bit OS. It would appear that your build targets x64.
The Platform name (shown on the top of the properties, page "Build") is only a name. The same for "Active Solution Platform" in configuration editor. This is a bit confusing.
You have to make sure that the "Target platform" setting is really set to "AnyCPU" or "x86".
I had same problem. I strugle with it. and the and I found a solution.
The solution is :
Firstly choose platform target "x86". After that build your project as "release mode" not "Debug mode". finally you can run on any platform (32 bit or 64 bit).
If none of the solutions presented above helped you, then try the following:
Open the project properties and click General in the left column.
Change Platform Toolset to the one with Windows XP in it.
For example, in Visual Studio 2015 it will default be set to "Visual Studio 2015 (v140)". To be able to run on Windows XP, you have to change this to "Visual Studio 2015 - Windows XP (v140_xp)".
Now do a full rebuild, and the exe should work on Windows XP.
My .NET 2.0 application imports unmanaged 32 bit dll.
The dll is loaded (first interop call happens) when user opens a file via a dialog within the application.
When I deploy the application via clickonce with target platform "Any", users on 64 bit windows get BadImageFormatException when trying to open files from the application (at the moment the unmanaged dll is loaded). I understand this is due to incompabible bitness of the 64 bit process and the 32 bit unmanaged dll.
I have redeployed the application using x86 as target platform. As I understand it, this should solve the bitness problem.
BUT
When I run the deployed application built for x86 on 64 bit system, I now get BadImageFormatException immediately before the application even starts. Tested on at least three 64 bit machines. On 32 bit machines, it works with no problem.
When I run the application directly from VS (or not directly, just a normal build, not going via ClickOnce), there is no problem on 64 bit windows when using x86 target platform. The application starts and user can load file - the interop call succeeds.
I have been debugging this for 2 days straight with no result - I have tried on different computers. It seems to consistentnly work on one of the computers I have tried. However, I do not have permanent access to this computer.
I have managed to build the ClickOnce deployment on my computer once and it worked on a 64 bit machine. This was single of maybe 100 tries! Nothing has changed, the only changed variable was that I did the successful build immediately after computer restart.
I did clean/rebuild/restart VS/restart windows MANY times. I have reinstalled VS 2008 and now also the whole OS, it did not help.
EDIT: I have just managed to get one good build (out of next 100 :)) and did comparison between the deployed directories.
The source of the problem is that ClickOnce generates the wrong target platform in the manifest of the main .exe:
<asmv1:assemblyIdentity name="app.exe" version="1.0.4.18" publicKeyToken=".token here." language="neutral" processorArchitecture="<b>msil</b>" type="win32" />
processorArchitecture should be x86.
So the question is how to consistently force VS to generate the correct processorArchitecture in the manifest when deploying.
Can anyone help please?
This was resolved by installing VS 2008 SP1 on 64 bit Windows 7. VS2008 SP1 on XP had the problem on two machines I have tried with.
I had this problem as well, using VS2008 SP1.
In my case I had a 32 bit DLL which had to be compiled as 32 bit and an application that was using it in the same solution.
Even though I specified X86 as the build target for the release build, when I published a 64bit application was compiled and included in the installer.
I found a slightly brutal solution to the problem:
Go into the configuration manager and remove all possible configurations except the one that you want it to build (Debug and release versions).
After doing this I found that the clickonce installer was generated with the correct application.
I hope this helps someone else, I have been battling this problem on and off for months.
I'd suggest to use Reflector to open the main exe deployed by ClickOnce and see the dependencies to make sure you are not deploying the 64 bit version of the dll by mistake.
You must resolve to run 32-Bit Applications in IIS 7. See http://www.fishofprey.com/2009/04/badimageformatexception-in-iis-70-on-64.html
Sometimes the ClickOnce publishing process seems to cache old files from previous Any CPU or x64 builds. Doing a Clean and Rebuild All didn't fix this problem for me. I needed to delete all of the bin and obj folders from my projects and reopen Visual Studio.
We ran into this problem and determined that the subdirectory of the user profile to which ClickOnce deployed our application must have become corrupted, because we were able to deploy the application successfully with ClickOnce when logged in as a different user on the same machine.
We were able to solve the problem simply by deleting the subdirectory of C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Apps under which ClickOnce was deploying our application. In our case, this was C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0.