Give a VC++/CLR-Applicartion to friends

[martho]

Hello! I wrote a small application in managed VC++. I want to give it to some friends without creating an installer. I told my friends to install the .net 2.0 framework. But the application still only runs on my computer with the Visual Studio installed: When running the .exe on another computer, it just crashes ("Problems with ....exe, should I report to Microsoft?").

What could be wrong?

[wildfrog]

What could be wrong?Anything. What about adding some logging/tracing functionality to your application to determine 'how far' your application gets, and what piece of code that makes your application crash?

- petter

[martho]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I think I didn't make this clear enough: The program runs in release-mode on every computer on which visual-studio is installed. With no visual-studio installed, the programm crashes right bevor doing anything (I put some tracing-routines in it).

So I assume some general installation-files for the .net-application are missing.

[darwen]

You've probably got MFC or ATL linked as dynamic instead of static. In a managed application you shouldn't have either.

These are in the project settings, general pane.

Try changing both to 'static' linking. Or not being used at all...

How did you create your project i.e. which wizard did you use, what settings...

Also if you're using managed VC++ this really should be run against .NET 1.1 and not .NET 2.0. It should still work with .NET 2.0, but this might be an issue too because there are differences.

Darwen.

[TheCPUWizard]

Darwen,

Why do you say...


Also if you're using managed VC++ this really should be run against .NET 1.1 and not .NET 2.0. It



Managed C++ is available for both runtimes. By default VS-2003 compiles for 1.1 and VS-2005 compiles for 2.0.

[darwen]

That's true CPUWiz, but under 2005 you have to change compiler syntax from C++/CLI to managed C++ using a setting in the project options which is off by default i.e. you have to use syntax C++/CLI by default.

That's why I tend to think of managed C++ as 2003 and C++/CLI as 2005.

However thanks for correcting me.

Maybe I should have asked which version of DevStudio they were using, since it says VC++/CLR in the heading and managed C++ in the text of the post...

Darwen.

[martho]

Hi and thanks for your replys. It's Visual Studio 2005. I don't use MFC.

I created an installer now, and it added 2 files:
Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msn
policy_8_0_microsoft_vc80_crt_x86.msn

I think I should copy them somewhere on the target-machine.

[Charu0306]

Its the deployment files that .NEt gives. Doesnt it give a small Setup too with it? I do not know VC++, but it did give me that in C#.