Re: vb.net winform apps fail on WindowsNT

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From: Elliot M. Rodriguez (elliot_at_news.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:02:09 -0500

Herfried:

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, even with a single form, one-button, MessageBox.Show("Hello World")
type app, it fails with the error described.

I tried to install full debugging support also (so at least I could fire the
CLR debugger), and I was greeted with the same error in various stages of
the install.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:c49ilg$2g37rg$1@ID-208219.news.uni-berlin.de...
> * "Elliot M. Rodriguez" <elliot@news.com> scripsit:
> > I've been struggling with this for a bit now and I hope someone can
offer
> > some help.
> >
> > Any winform app I assemble that I run on WinNT SP6a with 1.1 framework
> > installed completely crashes. Whether its by simply running a built EXE
or
> > creating a VS installation project, the result is the same. A modal
dialog
> > box that reads simply:
> >
> > "Application generated an exception that could not be handled".
> >
> > And my app would crash. The same installer works fine under WinXP and
2000.
> >
> > I was able to run the EXE from the command line and output the error
stream
> > to a file, so I could at least get an idea of what the error was, and it
> > simply read:
> >
> > "Fatal stack overflow error".
> >
> > I assume this occurs in Initialze Component, since the form doesnt ever
load
> > or even instanced (error handling I implement here is never reached).
>
> Does this even occur with a "single-form-project"?
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

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