Application Error 0xc0000135

[jsurpless]

Hi

I just installed an application I developed via VS 2005 Express... fresh windows installation of XP Pro... as I understand it, this error means that I'm missing the VB.NET 2.0 framework? How can I be sure to include this in my installer?

Many thanks!

 

[JohnH]

Make sure that .Net is checked in Prerequisites for your ClickOnce or Setup Project deployment.

 

[jsurpless]

Excellent, thanks... BTW, I'm not actually using the 'Setup' function of VS Express... I'm using a freeware program called 'Advanced Installer' to package the contents of the 'Debug' directory... that should be fine, no?

It lists 'predefined launch conditions' - one of which is the minimum version of .NET required... have you ever used this program?

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Actually, been looking around... turns out the FreeWare version can't do a lot of things... one of which is to install the required .NET framework...

So... in order to use the /publish from VS - I distribute that entire directory?

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So I'm trying to install my application via the Setup program in the /publish directory (I copied this to another PC)... I launch it and it successfully detects that I need .NET 3.5 (which it tries to d/l) but then nothing seems to happen once I get 'Microsoft Windows' window that says 'please wait while setup configures... this may take a few minutes'

No apparent disk activity... any thoughts?

 

[jsurpless]

OK... forgive me for all my questions, but I'm just having some issues with this (clearly, right?)...

I believe I managed to get the VS setup in /publish to work but I can't seem to locate the files it installs? The 'shortcut' in the Start Menu is an 'application reference' - where does it point to?

I'm not sure how much I'm liking the default publishing functionality... any recommendations for freeware?