wininet.dll XP SP2 with .NET Framework

[Guest]

I have an VB.NET .NET v.1.0 application which was behaving very nicely.

The operating system has been upgraded to XP service pack 2, and now the
application throws an exception on a call to InternetOpen of WININET.DLL

with the error description of:-

"Object Reference not set to an instance of an Object"

Strangely enough it works from the development environment without a problem.

Any ideas or advice very much apprieciated.

Thanks
Greg

 

[Patrick Philippot]

The operating system has been upgraded to XP service pack 2, and now
the application throws an exception on a call to InternetOpen of
WININET.DLL

Hi Greg,

You may want to have a look there:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx

This doesn't explain why the program works in debug mode, though.