Handling application initialization errors

[colin]

Hi,

a lot of times someone installs my aplication and gets an
application initialization error, is there a method to intercept this
and give more details as to whats failed ?

obviously the handler cant be part of the c# .net application that is giving
the initialising error as its probably .net that isnt installed or setup
properly,
or it might be missing another dll.

thanks

Colin =^.^=

 

[Ollie Riches]

Hi,

a lot of times someone installs my aplication and gets an
application initialization error, is there a method to intercept this
and give more details as to whats failed ?

obviously the handler cant be part of the c# .net application that is giving
the initialising error as its probably .net that isnt installed or setup
properly,
or it might be missing another dll.

thanks

Colin =^.^=

is the error written to the system event log?

Ollie Riches

 

[colin]

I dont know, thats actually a good question though,
it could provide some usefull information,
but even if it does it doesnt look very good if it just falls over with
a rather cryptic message, it would still require them contacting me
and me asking them to look, it would be preferable to
give a message on the screen when it failes initialization
stating that it couldnt find .net or some other dll or
that it isnt installed correctly

thanks
Colin