I've never seen this issue before, and I'm not even sure if I'm posting in the correct place.
My Co-worker wrote a C# program (windows), that includes a web control. In that web control are a bunch of iFrames. Now, when the web control is populated (max 15 records), everything is fine. 99% system idle process. But once you minimize the program, boom, 99% process goes to the c# program and stays there!
If the web control is not populated. There is no issue with minimizing and maximizing the program.
There are no functions that run when the program is minimized or maximized, so there's nothing to debug...
The program is crashing on two computers, but on the rest (about 8 computers) it runs fine.
The two computers that "crash", are not very similar... so it's proving hard to find what may be causing the issue. One computer is xp, the other is windows 7, one is ie7, the other is ie8.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, or if anyone had a similar situation and has a solution, I'm all ear's and eye's!
I would attach Visual Studio to the "99% CPU" process, break all, and see what's going on in there. That's first step.
Doesn't Windows write inactive (i.e. minimised) application state to disk, to free up resources for active (non-minimised) windows?
One of the hooks / events called when you minimise the application could be causing IO hangs. You should get a diagnostics tool like Sysinternals Procmon to see if IO (or any other process) is hanging based on the minimise event.
Good luck!
Chris.
So my co-worker didn't find the thorough answer as to why it was crashing, but it was crashing due to the .net Web control. He swapped out the control for a VB6 control and it now works.
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I have a winforms app (>75k lines of source code), I have just added some new functionality and a new form and I'm getting the 'can't create window handle' error but only when running inside VS. The app builds OK and when i run it as the executable it is using 597 handles, 94 GDI and 83 USER and the new form works just fine apart from my logic errors in it. So as far as I can tell; my app is well below the 10,000 limit where things start to break therefore the problem is in/with VS somewhere but I may have hold of entirely the wrong end of the stick or possibly completely the wrong stick.
I have cleaned, rebuilt, rebooted etc and it stills falls over.
I'm using Process Explorer (thats where the previous numbers came from) but can't seem to find VS in there to check what its total handle count is.
VS2017 on Win 11.
Yes, I have googled it and explored things to look at but I can't find a result that matches 'Studio falling over but the exe running fine', any help / pointers very much appreciated as I obviously can't debug the new form which does make things somewhat difficult.
The underlying issue was to do with a pop-up form being generated by the parent form during its load processes, I found that the parent hadn't been issued a handle before it was trying to show the pop-up. Before you ask... I'm capturing data from a network sensor via the pop-up, which, once the user has accepted the incoming value, feeds the data back to the parent form. I assume that in run-time everything runs faster and it doesn't hit that 'un-coupled' point. Changed the code in the instantiate/load/shown cycle it runs and all is well.
Thanks once again Hans, headache solved.
I have C# application acting as a scheduler. It runs various applications successfully. One of these applications (VB6) fails halfway through the job. If I execute this VB6 application directly with the exact same parameters, it completes successfully. The scheduler runs other VB6 applications successfully. Does anybody know what could cause this? What in the environment changes when you launch an application (VB6 exe) from within another application (C#)? Maybe there is an expert that can point me to something to help solve this?
I am adding more logging to the VB6 application and currently the error points to a routine executing SQL commands, but I have other applications executing the same code with no problem. At this stage I am stumped.
The following might be different
user account / user rights
working directory
environment variables
I suggest inspecting the VB6 application with Process Explorer and comparing against a working version.
OK, I found the problem. I started by rolling back the VB6 code two versions and proved that it worked. I then added small pieces of the new code and checking every time if it still works. I did not add back all the code (some were just cosmetic) and it is now working with the new functionality. It has taken a LOT of hours and it will take a lot more to determine what caused the original error, so I decided to take the win, because I cannot afford more hours.
I have a problem. When I use app it works good. But when I get called while using my application or I use another applications (browser, office, etc) WITHOUT CLOSING the application I am developing, when I try to use it again, it crashes. But if I close it and try to launch, it works fine. How can I solve this problem?
To debug this, you need to understand what's happening.
When an application gets hidden by another one, it goes through different lifecycle stages than it does from a new launch.
You must be depending on some initialization that's happening during the regular launch lifecycle stages.
This could be for several reasons. Maybe your app cleans something up when it gets hidden, that isn't reinitialized when it's visible again, for example.
I solved my crash using shared preferences. System Android cleaned all values from variables. So it caused crash. Now all values are stored in Shared Preferences and nothing losses and the app works stable.
I made a program, which works fine on my PC without any errors, it also works fine on some office PCs, but it crashes without any describable error on customer's PC and some others.
Crashes are completely random, sometime it may crash and sometimes not.
Crashes are not related with any actions, sometimes it may crash when they just look at the program and wait for crash.
Customers send me this beautiful screens and want me to solve this.
There you see common error reporting dialog, but not info about Exception.
My program uses Unity Web Player running in WebBrowser control. It's always run in background on the hidden tab which becomes visible when needed.
Any ideas how to handle such errors?
I think you should first ensure that the environment at your place and that of your customers are identical.
Maybe there're dll or other programs installed at your place (Unity web player as you mentioned for example) or anything in your Registry that may differ.
Else there's no point in getting error on one PC and not on another.
Make sure all dll are well deployed
Check your registry,
Ensure that all related programs are well installed
I have an application (ABC) that I developed and it as a windows application (.exe). It is by itself quite a big application referring a lot of dll's.
However, now there is a requirement that demands that this application(ABC) be a part of an even larger application (XYZ). Hence, I had to change the project type of "ABC" from being a windows application to a class library, and by changing a few lines of code.
My problem is that, ever since I started using ABC as part of XYZ, the application started hanging if I dint perform any operation on it for 10 to 15 mins... I do not have any problems while running it as a separate application.
Any reasons why this might occur?
Any suggestions would be really appreciated...
Thanks,
Ram
Launch XYZ in the debugger. Wait for the app to hang, pause the debugger, and have a look at what each of the threads in your process are busy with.
It might also help to turn on "break on all exceptions"
You can also use remote debugging to debug the application whilst it is running on the user's machine. From your dev machine, you can attach to the process on the user's machine, and then do a debug break to see what the threads are doing.