I have a desktop application developed with Lightswitch using Visual Studio 2012.
The app installs perfectly on a Windows 7 machine but when I try to install it on an XP SP3 machine I get:
setup.exe is not a valid Win32-Application
I've tried using:
editbin setup.exe /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01 /OSVERSION:5.1
but then I get the following error:
the procedure entry point InitializeCriticalSectionEX could not be
located in the dynamic link library Kernal32.dll
I've spent ages getting this rapid development application to do exactly what I want it to do and to be scuppered at the last hurdle really bites. So if anyone can help me to get this thing to work on an XP machine I'd be really, really grateful.
Looks like I was caught out with the 'can't compile an application in VS2012 for XP' issue. So I'm gonna redevelop the app in VS2010. Nice one Microsoft...
Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application
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I have written an application that I deploy via Clickonce, but I want to deploy it via Installshield, so I am experimenting with it. I found and downloaded dotnetfx45_full_x86_x64.exe, the redistributable for .NET Framework 4.5, and made a Installshield prerequisite from it. I wrote a simple application that has a RDLC report that just says “Hello World”, and it needs .NET Framework 4.5, and used Installshield to deploy it. The Reportviewer needs Microsoft SQLClrTypes_x86.msi and SQLClrTypes_x64.msi, and ReportViewer.msi, so I got those and made Installshield prerequisites from them. For the ReportViewer.prq, I specified SQLClrTypes_x86.prq and SQLClrTypes_x64.prq, as dependencies, and for SQLClrTypes_x86.prq and SQLClrTypes_x64.prq I specified dotnetfx45_full_x86_x64.prq as a dependency.
When I installed my little application on my test computer (running Windows 7), it installed the 4.5 framework, said it needed to reboot, and asked if I wanted to reboot now, and I clicked Yes. I was thinking it would reboot and continue the installation, but when it rebooted, that was the end of the installation. I ran setup again, it asked if I wanted to install the 4.5 Framework (it asked me the first time, too), so I clicked No. After clicking No, it installed the rest of my program, and it ran perfectly.
How can I get the installation to continue after it reboots from installing the .NET Framework 4.5?
Thanks
Here's a blog I wrote about 9 years ago:
Using InstallShield 12 to Install .NET Framework 3.0
It hasn't changed much. You want to use the prereq editor to change the reboot behavior to Note it, fail to resume if the machine is rebooted, and reboot after the installation.
Also please note that InstallShield consumes it's PRQ files from the ISProductFolder (C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield.... ) I don't care for this from a CM perspective. I recommend isolating the file and file references to relative paths based on ISProjectFolder and keeping all of these files in your source control tool.
Behavior Tab
I have been trying for a couple days to get Windows Management Framework 3.0 to install on my Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1 desktop machine. The installation seems to go fine, and at the end it requests a reboot as it should. After the reboot, it says installation has failed and rolls everything back out.
In the System Setup Logs it shows the following error:
Package KB2506143 failed to be changed to the Installed state. Status: 0x80070005.
I definitely meet the pre-requisites. I have uninstalled .NET 4.5 and 4.0 and re-installed both, with reboots in between. It always comes back with that same error.
Any ideas?
Make sure you run the installation as Administrator. It's not sufficient to be logged on with an account that has local admin privileges; you need to select Run as administrator from the context menu, or run it from an elevated command prompt. I ran into that error the first time I tried to install Management Framework 3.0 by just double-clicking the downloaded .exe file. It worked when I launched it from an elevated prompt (Run as administrator would have the same effect).
For me the problem was the .Net Framework WoW64 features were missing. More specifically mscoree.dll couldn't be found. Installing the NetFx2-ServerCore-WoW64 & NetFx3-ServerCore-WoW64 features fixed the problem for me.
http://josheinstein.com/blog/2011/09/solved-this-program-cant-start-because-mscoree-dll-is-missing-from-your-computer/
I built a .Net 2.0 Application for Windows XP but I made it in Windows 7.
The application contains a Mysql.data connection and CrystalReport. When I try to run it on Windows XP, the application does not run, giving an error message of:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b).
I tried to rebuild application in Windows XP, but when I rebuilt and ran it in Visual Studio, the following error occurs:
Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.
How can I fix this?
Please try the following:
1.Uninstall the .NET Framework 3.5 from Add/Remove Programs (in the Control Panel) on Windows XP or Programs and Features on Windows Vista/Windows 7.
Even if the uninstall fails, go on to step 2.
2.After the Framework 3.5 has been uninstalled or if it failed, download and run the .NET Framework removal tool.
Here's the link to Aaron Stebner's Framework Removal tool on Windows Live Skydrive:
http://cid-27e6a35d1a492af7.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Blog_Tools/dotnetfx_cleanup_tool.zip?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=17797669
Aaron Stebner is a Microsoft employee. The tool he's developed is linked on that page and makes easy work of cleaning up damaged .NET Frameworks from your system so they can be reinstalled. When you run the tool, choose the .NET Framework 3.5 from the list and choose to cleanup. After this is done, reinstall the .NET Framework 3.5 that Design 3 needs by running the Expression Design 3 setup package again. It will detect that the .NET Framework 3.5 is missing and reinstall it for you. After that's done, try running Design 3 again.
3.If that still fails to resolve the problem, go to START, RUN and type CMD to run a command prompt. Type CHKDSK /R and hit ENTER. Hit the letter Y and restart the machine. Allow the machine to do the check disk scan. After this is done and it goes back into Windows, try Expression Design again.
more information here
I have developed an application in Lightswitch 2012, and now need to deploy it to a desktop PC running XP SP3.
I have already looked at two previous posts Can't run Lightswitch 2012 Programm under Windows XP and
Lightswitch Desktop Application Wont Install in XP SP3
The two posts both refer to executing [editbin vslshost.exe /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01 /OSVERSION:5.1] to modify the vslshost.exe file, though only the first post says it worked.
In my case, I have tried the above to update the vslshost.exe file, but when I publish my LS2012 project it reverts back to the default vslshost.exe file. And if I manually swap the file with the copy I modified, when I run the deployed app I get the following error:
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (HashValidation)
- File, vslshost.exe, has a different computed hash than specified in manifest.
- Source: System.Deployment
So, the questions are
am I doing something wrong?
is there a master copy of vslshost.exe I need to update instead?
(BTW, I also ran the VS2012 (KB270250 from VS2012 Update 1 CTP 4))
Thanks for your help
As this is an internal company app, I have just convinced our IT guy to upgrade the machine, because the certain grief of trying the different possible solutions was just too much.
BUT if you MUST deploy to XP
To find out more, here are two pretty exhaustive posts with input directly from the Lightswitch team:
Progress on LS2012 desktop apps installing AND running on XP yet?
Windows XP 32 bit deployment
Enjoy....(???)
all, I implemented an application in my laptop (vista) with PyQt and it worked quite well. But if I want to run it in a desktop of Windows XP system, an error occured! It says the configuration was wrong. What is the reason (by this i mean does it matter which system I used??)and how to solve it please? thanks!!!
More info would be useful, but this sounds familiar to a problem I had when freezing apps using py2exe. Is this your exact error message?:
The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.
Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.
I managed to get around this by installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package from http://download.microsoft.com.
This was an error I had when using py2exe. After switching over to PyInstaller, which bundles the runtimes during freezing, the problems went away without having to install the C++ runtimes on an XP machine. There may even be a way to bundle the runtimes using py2exe, but I've not looked.