I have created an application in VS C# Express 2008 using Windows 7 as my OS. It runs perfectly fine on other W7 machines, but when we try and deploy it on a machine with XP it doesn't even run. I just get the usual "Application needs to be terminated" error message. The app was built using .NET 3.5 and all the machines have at least 3.5 installed. Is there anything that I may be able to do to get the program running in previous versions? Thanks in advance for your help.
Updated Info. The machines all use x86 32-bit OS, either XP SP3 or W7, so I don't think that there is a huge need for checks for 64-bit issues. The application itself is loading images into an image list and adding in an image when it finds a break in the file names. (eg. There are 4 images in a folder, 1-3 and 5, what the application does is iterates through each image name and the minute it sees that image 4 is missing, it adds a placeholder image and labels it image 4.)
You should set up an UnhandledExceptionEventHandler so that you can log information about the current state of your application and the exception information. It isn't going to stop your application from crashing, but it will give you more information about what happened and make it easier on your end user to give you what you need to know when the application crashes.
This article give a good description of how to do that.
First you must be sure that .Net Framework 3.5 is installed on your Windows XP machine. If everything is OK, then you should check if you are using "3rd party dlls as reference" and validate their existence and correct versions on your Windows XP machine.
Probably this can help.
Log the exception which is thrown by the application so that you can fix it.
Not a lot of info but some things to check:
Make sure you have the latest patches on XP and SP release
Maybe you need to run the program as administrator - are you logging in as admin
Have you checked the windows appliation error log to see if there is anything there that might be helpful
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i got problem win i run my application ( Made With VS 2013 - C# )
Only Work On Administration User
if its Standard user Or The PC/Laptop got a Deep Feeze Software Installed
its Show me this Error
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b). click ok to
close the application
i tried to install "all in one runtimes CD"
but its also didnt work
is there any sulotion ?
sorry for my bad english and thank you.
0xc000007b error usually comes from mixing up a 32-bit environment with a 64-bit one. Example, the 32-bit application loads a 64-bit dll causing 0xc000007b error. Try to re-install your application and .NET Framework
Error 0xc00007b occurs because the program that you installed and your system belong to different chipset processors.
E.g. your system is 32-bit and the application which you downloaded is built for 64-bit. So first understand what is your system and application's target platform, then use/run the correct binary files.
I have the following Powershell code below that i've compiled into an executable (.exe) file and have packaged it into SCCM to push against several 100 users. I have setup the SCCM package to run as "Install as user" and not as an Administrator. The package successfully captures the data for users with Windows 7, but any user that has Windows 8/10 installed fails to capture the data I need.
I did a try/catch statement and get this error - "
Exception calling "GetActiveObject" with "1" argument(s): "Operation
unavailable (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800401E3 (MK_E_UNAVAILABLE))"
I'm trying to understand why the same exact code works perfectly on Windows 7 machines, but does not work on Windows 8/10. Is there a fix? I would like to avoid using "New-Object -ComObject 'Outlook.Application'" because i don't want to create a new Outlook process in the background (fear of corrupting user's running Outlook session). I need to run the Powershell code to capture the active running Outlook process. Please help. Thank you
$mail = [Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application')
$name = $mail.Application.DefaultProfileName
output of $name is stored locally to a log text file.
Make sure Outlook and your app are running in the same security context - either both apps are running with elevated privileges ("Run As Administrator") or neither app is running as an admin.
I was experiencing similar symptoms. I don't know if this is your exact problem, but maybe my solution will help someone else who stumbles across this issue.
The following MS KB article mentions that Office applications do not register themselves in the ROT until the application loses focus (which is apparently "behavior by design"). If the application is not registered in the ROT, GetActiveObject will return the error you indicated.
In my case, the script was working reliably on Windows 7, but it only sometimes worked on Windows 8. For some reason, perhaps related to the versions of Office installed, different versions of Internet Explorer (which I used to launch the Office apps) or maybe changes to Windows itself, I experienced different default window focusing behavior on Windows 8. As soon as I manually clicked on the Office app in my Windows 8 tests, the script started working.
To solve the problem, I just inserted a call to focus the Office application window before making the GetActiveObject call, which made the operation completely reliable on Windows 8.
I've been using this certain application among previous windows versions (Windows XP-Vista-7-8-8.1) and it has worked perfectly without having any issues, after upgrading to Windows 10 though it started showing EAccessViolation error and spams the place with message boxes saying "Runtime error at XXXX" (memory address)
So what I've been trying to achieve is creating a program in C# which runs the application under all compatibility modes one by one, to check which one works and which one doesn't - and sadly, none of them did.
The application is not mine and has stopped development.
Do you guys have any idea what has changed in Windows 10 code-wise, and how am I able to fix this issue? Is there a way to fully emulate another windows version and run it for this application alone? (Without having to set up a Virtual PC or anything)
Thank you in advance.
Note: Microsoft said that Windows 10 is completely backwards compatible, which it doesn't seem like it? The application does not use any driver, it's just a standalone EXE coded in C++/Lua.
Note2: The EXE calls a DLL which might be outdated for Windows 10, any idea what to do about the DLL? Is there a way to make it work as it did in previous windows?
You can help prevent these kinds of errors from occurring by updating your device drivers after formatting and reinstalling your operating system or installing a Windows Updates. Always install the latest Windows Updates before going through and updating your device drivers.
I've written many versions of windows services and installed them on a 64-Bit system with 32 GB running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
I create the services using this recipe:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/zt39148a.aspx
"Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer"
I create the .msi and corresponding setup.exe on my Win 7 laptop (c#, vs2010 SP1, .NET 4).
NORMAL BEHAVIOUR
after testing a Windows service on my laptop, I copy the .msi and setup.exe to a folder on the win2008 R2 Enterprise server (using copy and paste via remote desktop); I use the server's Control Panel to uninstall, right click the .msi and choose Install, then walk through the Setup Wizard. No problem. Works most of the time.
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR
The install runs for perhaps 15 minutes or longer; it never finishes; eventually a dialog states
"(?) Installer is no longer responding."
with options to [Retry] or [Cancel].
At this point, the progress bar is a short as it could possibly be and at the far left, beneath the "P" of "Please wait...".
Clicking Retry does not help. It's been over 30 minutes and counting since I clicked Retry and the progress bar has not advanced even a pixel.
MORE INFORMATION
(a) the service installs without any problem on another server, a Win 2008 R2 web edition.
(b) as mentioned above, the Windows service both installs and works properly on my Win 7 development and testing environment.
HISTORY / SPECULATION
a couple of weeks ago, I was unable to install a service from the win 2008 R2 Enterprise server. I could not find it in Control Panel/Uninstall even though the .msi claimed it to be installed and the service also continued to appear in the services.msc console. Even disabling the service did not help. For that reason, I cloned the code, changed the service name slightly, and successfully installed that service which has been running for while without issues.
Today, a similar event happened, the only difference being that I can see that service in Control Panel Uninstall. Because it would not uninstall, I tried my same cloning trick but this time it failed.
Next step: using the above walkthrough, I created a do nothing Windows service and made it useful by importing my client classes into it from the original c# project file.
The re-built from the ground up Windows service works as designed on my laptop but refuses to install on the R2 Enterprise server.
Any ideas?
Please and thank you.
P.S.: i posted this at so because imho it's more likely something that a developer is likely to encounter prior to handing off her/his code to a sysadmin.
BTW, I could not find anything related at so; ditto via Google.
in this particular case, it is some very weird server rights condition
MORE INFORMATION
although my server account is not Administrator, I'm a member of both local and domain Administrators for this 2008 R2 box.
I had tried many ideas, including creating the example in the walkthrough and trying it. No luck.
The boxe's Administrator was able to install my service using installutil.exe so I tried installutil.exe but it would only work for me using the Administrator's credentials.
For that reason, I suspected it might be a rights issue, so I tried with my credentials installing the walkthrough example on the H:\ drive. Success. Next, I tried installing the troublesome Windows service on C: in a different location. Again, success.
What is strangest about this issue is that many times I had no problem then suddenly a problem arose to block my development efforts.
A sign that a Windows service will install is when a dialog asking permission to continue appears almost immediately after starting the install. Another clue that success is possible is being able to successfully uninstall any previous version via Control Panel.
I appreciate everyone's efforts to help me with this. Thank you.
I've had similar experiences with my own MSI's (not just for services), as well as third party MSI's on Win2k3 and Win2k8. I never (ever) got to the bottom of it without a 'fresh' re-install of the operating system.
Just like you, I too speculate that there's something lost in (a combination or all of) the internals of the OS (registry, file-system, system restore).
I know this is not what you want to hear but (if at all possible) a clean install of the OS might do the trick for you.
I have an app that I wrote using C# .NET 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 7 Ultimate machine. This app works fine on both Vista and other Windows 7 computers, but whenever someone running Windows XP tries to run it it crashes.
In order to reproduce this I've tried running it on my Win XP VMWare machine and it crashes for me in there. Unfortunately it doesn't give me any specific error, just informing me that the program has crashed and needs to close.
One other user sent me the following:
Run-time error '339'
Component 'vbalSGrid6.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.
Code 0xe0434352
Flags 0x00000001
I don't get that particular bit when I try to run it on my Virtual XP machine, and I also made sure to install .NET 4.0 on there.
What could be causing this, and why won't the app run in XP if the .NET 4 framework is supported for XP?
Components used in the program: DataGridView, ComboBox, Buttons, Labels, LinkLabel, NewtonSoft's JSON parser, and that's about it.
I am baffled and have utterly no idea where to start. Ideas?
UPDATE: Hmm, tried running my other recently created application on XP and it loaded fine. The only major difference (in the components I used anyway) between the two is my use of NewtonSoft's JSON library, which I actually think is a .NET 3.5 component.
UPDATE 2: Just for kicks I tried running the program on my Wind7 machine in "Windows XP SP3" compatibility mode and it ran fine. Of course, I have no idea just how closely the "compatibility mode" emulates a true XP SP3 environment, but I figured I'd give ya'll the info anyway.
¡¡ IT WAS THE APPLICATION ICON !!
I kept noticing that the module it referenced in the error it gave me was system.drawing which I thought was odd. I figured perhaps the PictureBox I was using was causing the issue, so I tried disabling everything to do with that, to no avail.
I had my business partner set up his XP box so that we'd have another machine to test with aside from my VMWare XP box just in case there was some odd issue with it.
After he got it set up and the app copied over he said "The icons look like DOS ones" and I had a eureka moment.
I was using .PNG's as the icons because they support transparencies and whatnot, but XP doens't natively support them. So when the app was copied to the desktop it just used a generic icon for it, and when the application was run it crashed because XP doesn't know how to render a .PNG.
Try using the Fusion Log Viewer to debug startup errors in .NET applications.
Scott Hanselman has written a nice howto along with links to further resources if you need to go deeper.
Are we sure this is some wierd .NET compatibility issue or just a run of the mill bad installer/deployment problem?
Here's one user who has that error message because the OCX DLL was copied to System32 with a shortname. Renaming the DLL to the correct name and running RegSvr32 resolved his problem.
Do you have an installer? Have you correctly identified all of your managed and unmanaged dependencies and properly authored them into your installer?
http://forums.elmsoftware.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=119