Re: vb.net winform apps fail on WindowsNT

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


Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:38:24 -0500

Just to follow up, another developer put togehter another single form one
button "Hello World" app pointed at the 1.0 runtime and that also failed
with the same error result.

"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/>