Re: "Application has failed to start..." error message with VS2005 on new machine

Joseph

nice to hear from you again

frankly if you don't know what it means then I don't have a hope

Phil Cunningham


"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2p2v849oktvm5k7gmhubb1m8lg53bi22qk@xxxxxxxxxx
The primary role of this message is to prevent your customers from ever getting effective
tech support for your product; secondarily, it is to protect my 88-year-old mother from
seeing information she might not understand. What it means is "something is screwed up,
and even though we know exactly what failed, we're not going to tell you because that
might be useful information, and if you knew it, you might be able to fix the problem, and
we wouldn't want THAT to happen."

The fact that it is not consistent is disturbing. I hope someone from MS reads these
posts and begins to get a sense that we do NOT want to be protected from knowing critical
information!

Unfortunately, other that putting up this message that I hope MS reads, I have no idea how
to tackle this when it is not consistent. Usually it means a critical DLL is missing
(they know which one, but they won't tell you!) Another victory for the incompetents who
design these crappy interfaces to make our lives miserable.

joe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:17:08 +0100, "philip" <mfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

VC++ MFC Project working absolutely fine on one machine

Installed Visual Studio on a new portable and copied the project and all the
settings over, done a complete rebuild which worked fine but now get an
error message

"The application has failed to start becuase the application configuration
is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem"

Have tried reinsalling (but I dont think this is relevant as I am working
with VStudio)

the message pops up a couple of times but then the program runs OK

Does anyone know what this means and how to find out what is missing?

Many thanks and all suggestions much appreciated

Phil
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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