VS 2005 RC: "has encountered a problem" on deployment

[DraguVaso]

Hi,

I tried to deploy an application written in VB.NET 2005, with the Release
Candidate.

Everything works fine on my pc which has the Visual Studio installed, but
when I install the .NET Framework (v2.0.50727) and the Setup of my prject, I
get some nasty error: "MyApplication has encountered a problem and needs to
close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" with the well-known "Send Error
Report" and "Don't Send"-buttons. I tried it on 5 pc's: (4x W2K, 1x XP), and
everytime the same thing. The application doesn't even start: it just gives
the error...

Does this happen because of the version of the Framework I use? should I use
the Beta 2 (v2.0.50215) to deploy solutions?

Any help or hints will be really appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Pieter

 

[Brooke.Philpott]

This happens to me as well. If I run my application compiled against
version 1.1 of the framework i dont get this error, but if i compile
against the 2.0 framework RC1 and run it on another user's machine that
doesnt have vs.net 2005 (only the framework) i get this error. Anyone
know how to troubleshoot this?

 

[Pieter]

I really think it's normal behaviour. The Beta 2 has a Go Live license, the
RC1 doesn't... I guess Microsoft has build in something that makes
applications not run without Visual Studio isntalled.

although this is a guess, I didn't find anything pointing this out :-( In
case you find a solution, I would be delighted if you post it, because the
RC1 is really better then the Beta 2, there are less anoying bugs in the
Visual Studio of the RC1.

And coding in RC1 and then building in Beta 2 isn't an option: they made
some changes in some file configuratiosn, so going back to Beta 2 isn't that
easy, hehe

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Pieter,

No, it is not the three versions after the Beta2 cannot be used with the Go
Live license.

I assume that they made changes after that Beta2, that are not enough tested
to use it in that way.

However it is just to wait some weeks before the final version will come to
market.

Just my thought,

Cor

 

[Pieter]

However it is just to wait some weeks before the final version will come

to market.

Just my thought,

Mine too

 

[andy]

I haven't had any problems deploying my RC apps to my test server / end
users machines - just for testing purposes. You need to make sure you
have the RC redistributable installed though - the Beta 2 one won't
work. You can download it here I think:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5f-b710-49ed-92a1-b80b948aeb65&DisplayLang=en