Re: Visual Studio 2005 problems.. "...the application configuration is incorrect..."

I am using Windows XP Embedded.

Is anyone using Visual Studio 2005, and has anyone been able to successfully
transfer executables to their WinXP embedded images?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Corey



>
> Are you trying to run VS 2005 on XP *Embedded* or on XP Pro? This
> newgroup is for the former. If so, why? If you really do want this to
> run on XPE, you're going to have to figure out the dependencies that
> VS2005 has on the OS and make sure you build your XPE with those
> satisfied.
>
> --
> Gordon Smith (eMVP)
> -- Avnet Applied Computing Solutions

"Gordon Smith (eMVP)" <Gordon.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eN5Am6I4FHA.1596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Corey wrote:
>> I am evaluating Visual Studio 2005 (upgrading from 2003.net). I
>> converted the project files and rebuilt, everything works just fine
>> on the development computer. Sadly, nothing at all runs on the Win
>> XPE computer. Using MSVC7 (.Net 2003) I just had to copy over
>> "msvcr71d.dll" from the system32 directory. No such luck anymore, I
>> finally found the msvc8 dlls under WinSXS directory, and copied them
>> over, but when I try to run the exe on WinXPE I get the error message:
>>
>> "This application has failed to start because the application
>> configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix
>> this problem."
>> I know absolutely zero about "WinSXS DLL versioning shared
>> side-by-side isolation private assembly manifests" (or any of the
>> terms therein) but I guess its time to read up on these topics.
>>
>> Does anyone know a quick way to fix this without having to ... well,
>> you know... read and learn stuff?
>>
>> I've tried to blindly change the following project settings, in hope
>> of stumbling over the answer:
>> - Set 'Project Setting/Linker/Manifest File/Generate Manifest' to 'NO'
>> - Set 'Project Setting/LInker/Manifest File/Allow Isolation' to
>> 'Don't allow side-by-side isolation'
>>
>> After I made this change, the program actually ran, but immediately
>> generates a runtime error:
>>
>> "R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime
>> library incorrectly."
>>
>>
>> I see things like this:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2005/09/02/460368.aspx
>> ... and realize I also don't know anything about "Merge Modules" and
>> "Policies" and again I start to think maybe I should just go back to
>> .Net 2003.
>>
>> Any ideas? Otherwise I'm hitting the books, but thanks for any help
>> you might give.
>>
>> -Corey

>
>


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