I'm building an exe file using Microsoft Visual C# and I've installed Microsoft Chart Controls as an add-on. But whenever I try to run the exe on a different computer, it won't even open and it just crashes. I've tried creating the exe using both 2008 and 2010 editions. The problem is that the other computer doesn't have Microsoft Chart Controls installed, because once I install it, the exe runs fine. However I want to be deploying just the exe file to other people who won't necessarily have Microsoft Chart Controls installed. Is there any way around this?
In Visual studio open up your Solution explorer and expand the references folder. Under this folder you will see the 3rd party DLL references, on any non .net references select them and under the properties set the Copy Local to true. when you setup your deployment make sure that those DLL's are packaged/sent to the target machine. The application is crashing because the remote computer is missing the references it needs to execute your application. It works on your machine because the installer for the 3rd party plugin set up your environment to be able to run this.
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I'm currently working in VS2017 on a solution with multiple C# and C++ projects.
The installer project has the C++ redistributable as a prerequisite, with the option to download it from the component vendor's site.
Some of the clients want to be able to install the application without an internet connection.
The normal thing would be to put the package in the bootstraper and check the download from the same location as my application; the problem is every time Microsoft updates something with this library, compiling the application would work, but installation will have the old redistributable.
Is there any check to include Visual Studio libraries that are used when building the application, which ever version these may be?
I have a Setup Project for my winforms application. After installing the application using the generated .msi i navigate to the installation folder and try to run the .exe file and nothing happens. I don't get an error or anything.
Steps i've tried to solve my problem.
Making sure the target platform x86 matches in the main project, setup project and every other project in the solution that the application has a dependency on.
In the setup project, made sure that i have a project output in the application folder that references the primary output from the main project. And that the dlls i use also are listed there.
Ran the application as administrator.
Activated Click Once security settings in the main project.
Ran sfc /scannow without finding any issues.
Restarted my computer.
When installing the program using the generated .msi on another computer i have the same issue.
When running the program from visual studion it works perfectly fine.
It is likely that your application is crashing because of some missing dependency.
Possible reasons:
A missing assembly (say, for eg, is all your third party dependencies present in the application folder after the installation ?)
Difference between .Net framework versions between your machine and the installed machine (say, for eg. 4.7 vs 4.7.2)
One useful tool that has helped us in the past is to use the Windows Event Viewer. If the program is indeed crashing, it is likely to have details about the reason for crash.
You can then use it as a starting point for further investigation.
I have a perfectly working windows forms C# .NET 4 application that uses a SQLite3 database file to store data and display forms.
When I deploy my app on any machine other then the dev machine, I get an exception thrown and it's message is "Could not load assembly System.Data.SQLite.dll or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found."
The System.Data.SQLite.dll reference in the project is set to Copy Local = True. Also, I tried manually loading the assembly with Assembly.LoadFile. The dll is placed in the output directory. I also tried setting the platform target to Any CPU as well as x86, no difference. All machines I am working with are 32-bit. What is the issue here? Why is my application trying to load the assembly and can't find it?
Thanks!
I had the same problem after publishing my program to a separate computer. Installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) on the separate computer fixed the problem.
Note: the separate computer already had Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) installed, the x86 version was needed.
'System.Data.SQLite.dll" requires "msvcr100.dll" which is one of it's Dependencies. This will be available only if you installed latest "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" or any other product which internally provides this.
For example, VS2010 will install C++ Redistributable by default. Thats the reason your application doesnot works in some machine but works in others.
You could try pasting the "msvcr100.dll" in your application bin folder and distribute if you dont want to install VC++ 2010 Redist in all the PC's.
Some of the System.Data.Sqlite.dll modules depend on the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package" .
You can find required dependencies on the official download page : http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/downloads.wiki
The answers already given didn't solve my problem. I tried to deploy to a VMware server. The solution that did help where given here: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/System-Data-SQLite-Deployment-Mystery-td71752.html Two methods are described there.
When i install this sqlite-netFx45-setup-bundle-x86-2012-1.0.88.0.exe, my app is able to find the right dll.
The second method is to add the dll to de app.exe.config in the debug or release dir. If you edit this file directly, there is a change VC will overwrite the file.
My main problem was that i installed the sqlite package manually. I didn't use NuGet, because i'm behind a proxy. If you do use Nuget, the information in the app.exe.config will be provided automatically.
Using NuGet behind a proxy is described here: NuGet Behind Proxy
I have an office add-in (vsto) that has been working fine for ages.
It launches perfectly, runs nicely no problem, but this is only when debugging from visual studio.
If I now take the files from my bin\debug and move it to another folder, then I register the released version
c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\regasm.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlugin\MyVSTO.dll"
it registers correctly, but will not load in office.
I have tried retricking the registry setting "LoadBehavior" setting it back to 3, but no luck.
office keeps complaining about my add in with the error
"Not loaded. A runtime error occured during loading of a com add in"
So it seems like it is dying when trying to launch. I though there was a missing dll or something, but no such luck, every library i need is in the folder.
This is the exact same machine so shouldnt be a dot net issue
fyi
This is done in C# 4.0 using netOffice
You can not install an Excel add-in using REGASM because it does not setup all required information; you need to deploy your add-in as per MSDN office deployment guidelines, you have two choices:
Click once
Windows installer
Note: VS actually installs the Add-in for you by setting the right information In Excel and the registry, so that you do not need to deploy the add-in manually for every new build.
I have a console application built in visual studio 2010.
When I actually build the project I am getting .exe file under \bin\Debug\MyProj.exe.
When I Paste and run this .exe from other location it is expecting other files too.
Any thoughts how can I make this as Stand alone exe file.
There should be other DLL's in the Debug library. You need those to run your exe.
If there are no DLL's there, make sure you set the 'Copy local' property of the required references to True, and build again.
If you want to make a standalone program, you should create a new Setup project in your solution. Include the Primary Output from your application project, and the setup should include the required DLL's automatically. Once you build the setup project, you can install your application as a standalone software.
You usually distribute application with bunch of DLLs, that's nothing bad.
But if you really want to make it a single exe, you can look here - same question is answered Embed .net dll in c# .exe . (Valid if your DLLs are also .Net assemblies)
Edit: If you need to easily distribute app to not-very-computer-friendly users, consider also trying ClickOnce. It's roughly something like Java Web start - only disadvantage is that you can't get "Windows Logo" certificate from Microsoft for projects distributed that way.
I don't have Visual Studio 2010 to experiment with, but in Visual Studio 2019 this worked:
Project Properties->Configuration Properties->Advanced->Use of MFC->Use MFC in a Static Library