repost: vb.net winform app fails on WindowsNT

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Elliot Rodriguez

I'm reposting this - hopefully someone has a solution. Right now the only
other option is to rewrite the app in VB6... and i DONT want to do this.

I've been struggling with this for a bit now and I hope someone can offer
some help.

Any winform app I assemble that I run on WinNT SP6a with 1.1 framework
installed completely crashes. Whether its by simply running a built EXE or
creating a VS installation project, the result is the same. A modal dialog
box that reads simply:

"Application generated an exception that could not be handled".

And my app would crash. The same installer works fine under WinXP and 2000.

I was able to run the EXE from the command line and output the error stream
to a file, so I could at least get an idea of what the error was, and it
simply read:

"Fatal stack overflow error".

I assume this occurs in Initialze Component, since the form doesnt ever load
or even instanced (error handling I implement here is never reached).

Can anyone offer anothe rdirection? I am at the end of my rope on this
one... Thank you
 
Jeffrey:

thanks for the reply.

I have tried this with a simple one button form, "hello world" from
MessageBox.show, on both the 1.0 and 1.1 framework versions, with the exact
same result. There is nothing special about these sample forms.

While my app im trying to get working does have an active X control, these
simple applications also fail.
 
Hi Elliot,

Have you tried the app on more than one NT4 machine? It might be worth
building another machine from scratch with a brand new install of NT4 SP6a
and only the .NET Framework 1.1 loaded to eliminate possible issues with any
other loaded software or configuration settings that may have been changed
on the machine.

Although this might not help you resolve the issue you have with your
existing NT4 machines, it will prove whether or not a .NET app will actually
run on a clean NT4 machine at all.

Gary
 
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