Rare Problem: Click Program ICON and Nothing Happens?

[Brad Isaac]

Hi all,

I have two users out of several hundred who have an issue where they click
the program icon and nothing happens at all. No error message, no
appearance of the app in task manager. This is new to me. Anyone know what
I could do to fix it?

I happened across some threads of other programs having this issue and the
solution was hard reset. That, of course, isn't an attractive option.

Thank you for any tips you may have!
Brad

 

[Coder]

Brad what type of program is it?

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Hard reset or perhaps soft reset?

 

[Brad Isaac]

It's a .NET CF program that utilizes SQLCE

When you run it, it builds a sqlce database OR opens the existing database.

This is mainly happening on one hp5555

Thanks,
Brad

 

[Matt Kunze]

Hi all,

I have two users out of several hundred who have an issue where they click
the program icon and nothing happens at all. No error message, no
appearance of the app in task manager. This is new to me. Anyone know what
I could do to fix it?

I happened across some threads of other programs having this issue and the
solution was hard reset. That, of course, isn't an attractive option.

Are you 100% sure all the dependencies are on these devices. I have seen
similar behavior before when there are missing .NET assemblies. Since
there are no explicit links in the main binary to the satellite
libraries the OS linker doesn't complain when you launch the app, and
sometimes the Compact Framework seems to fail when it cannot find an
assembly with no error message.
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