all, I have a rather frustrating issue. The application in question has an MFC GUI that uses the classes available in the MFC Featurepack. This GUI uses an DLL that is developed in C++\CLI. Our company uses Cruise Control. NET (1.4.4 SP1) on Windows Server 2008 SP2 for continuous integration. Cruise Control is setup to use the version of MSBuild that comes with the 3.5 version on the framework.
The issue in question is that if I use the build that Cruise Controls creates, I receive the following error: "Unhandled exception at 0x7642fbae (kernel32.dll) in FormView.exe: 0xE0434F4D: 0xe0434f4d." After some digging, the issue seems to be that the GUI doesn't like the C++\CLI assembly.
The "gotcha" is that if I log on to the server, and, using PowerShell, execute the same MSBuild command, the build works. Any one have ideas?
The issue was how I was building the installer. It was a separate solution from the project's main solution, and was thus a separate task from the primary build. Therefore, the output assemblies got signed twice, and loader complained because the one the application wanted was no longer valid.
you could try and attach the process to the visual studio debugger.
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I've written a console program that "does stuff" - mainly using boost. How do I convert it to a Windows Service?
What should I know about Windows Services beforehand?
There's a good example on how to set up a minimal service on MSDN. See the parts about writing the main function, entry point and also the example code.
Once you've got a windows service built and running, you'll discover the next major gotcha: it's a pain to debug. There's no terminal (and hence no stdout/stderr) and as soon as you try to run the executable it actually launches the service then returns to you.
One trick I've found very useful is to add a -foreground option to your app so that if you run with that flag then it bypasses the service starter code and instead runs like a regular console app, which makes it vastly easier to debug. In VS.Net set up the debugging options to invoke with that flag.
There's a really good example on msdn here
It's a boiler plate C++ service project that has self install/uninstall functionality and logs service start and stop events to the windows event log. It can be stopped and started through the services app (snapin) like other services. You may want to initially give it LocalSystem rights to see it working , as on xp at least it doesn't have enough rights to start with the project provided rights of LocalService. The Visual Studio 2008 project otherwise runs out of the box despite the downloaded instructions implying otherwise.
A bit late but I hope this helps someone else.
You might be able to 'wrap it' using this tool from CodeProject:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/xyntservice.aspx
Worth a look.
The simplest solution might be to create a new Windows Service project in Visual Studio and copy across your code to the new project.
If you refactor your code so that you've split the UI (in this case the console) from the logic you could create a library that does the work and then call that from both the Console project and the Service Project.
You can configure an application to run as a service by using the Srvany tool, which is a part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.
Srvany allows only one service at same time. So I write my srvany (sFany) to make nginx and php-cgi run as windows service together. Here is the source https://github.com/stxh/sFany
I am developing my QT application on windows 10 . The development is complete (as for now).
After run the application in debug mode from QT-creator, I am trying to run the executable from the build directory. But it shows me an "Application Error" dialog with the following message:
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000a200). Click OK
to close the application.
What is the problem and How to fix it ?!
The error codes are given to you in the error message for a reason. They don't mean anything to regular users, but we're programmers and we are the intended audience. Now that Google has been invented, you have absolutely no excuse for not taking the 5 seconds to Google the error code and see what it means.
In this case, 0xc000a200 is an error code that corresponds to STATUS_NOT_APPCONTAINER. The master list of COM error codes is in the Windows SDK headers, specifically ntstatus.h. If one looks this one up, one sees the following description:
This operation is only valid in the context of an app container.
Now, admittedly, once you get to this point, you may discover that you are in well over your head. You may not have any idea what an app container is, and certainly no clue about how to fix it. But at least then you would be able to ask a good question, which will go a long way to getting you a good answer.
But let's see if you can get lucky this time anyway. This error is most commonly encountered when an application that is not inside of an app container tries to load a DLL that is marked as being part of an app container. It is the linker that is responsible for marking a DLL as being or not being part of an app container, controlled by a series of options for whatever linker you're using. On Microsoft's linker, it is /APPCONTAINER:YES and /APPCONTAINER:NO that control this. I'm not sure what toolchain Qt Creator uses, but if it is not Microsoft's, this should at least get you started looking in the right place in that linker's documentation. Make sure that all DLLs used by your application are not being marked as part of an app container.
The option should be off by default for a regular C++ desktop application project, but it's possible that one of the DLLs started out life as part of a Windows Store app. Or it's possible that the switch just got thrown accidentally.
I had the same error, but the approved solution wasn't the cure. What I found is that I had installed the wrong Qt compiler support packages. For me it was Qt 5.9.1 on Windows 10 64 bit to use with Visual Studio 2017. When installing Qt I selected the "msvc2017 64-bit" option. Sound good, right? Wrong: what I wanted was the "UWP x64 (MSVC2017)".
Im trying to deploy a C++ AMP application to another Windows 7 machine.
I have tried to include the vcamp110.dll in the same folder, and also compiled with /MT do get rid of dependency on msvcp110.dll and msvcr110.dll.
Also tried both x64 and win32 release of the application.
On the computers i have tried it on whitout VS11 installed, the program stops responding.
I tried to do a simple test with the hello world application and i have the same problems there.
The files can be downloaded from here http://www.2shared.com/file/IofZlrJs/amptest.html (source, binary and the dll).
Any suggestions to how this can be fixed?
Deployments like the one you tried are definitely supported – full details here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2012/03/12/deploying-apps-built-with-c-amp.aspx
There are a few things you can do to diagnose the issue you are facing yourself:
The bitness of vcamp110.dll has to match the bitness of your app, so 32bit for one means 32bit for the other.
Ensure that there are no other instances of vcamp110.dll in some central location (e.g. system32)
Attach a debugger and see what DLLs are loaded and what exception gets thrown.
Most important of all, for all your apps, surround your parallel_for_each call with try…catch to see what runtime_exception you are getting. More on C++ AMP exceptions can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2012/02/01/c-amp-runtime-exceptions.aspx
For the specific repro you shared, we tried that under the debugger on a clean Windows 7 machine and indeed a rutime_exception is being thrown: “The binary for the parallel_for_each is incompatible with this version of runtime.”, which indicates a mismatched runtime version (either mixing bitness or mixing Developer Preview with Beta or something like that).
I have Created a C++/CLI Console Application and I am using C Static Library(Multi-threaded (/MT)) In it.
Its Compiling fine but, when I try to launch it is showing Message Box
Saying
Unable to start ....\ManagedSample.exe
THis application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Review the manifets file for possible error.
I have Set clr option.
Typically this happens when no or the wrong C++ runtime library is installed.
Download and install the correct VC++ redist.
Eg. if you built your application with VS2010 SP1 use this package.
I've just discovered that regtlib.exe appears to be missing from Windows 7 (and apparently from Vista as well).
I've just installed Windows 7 RC in a VM and I'm attempting to build our existing projects on the new OS. The projects are c/c++ based and I'm using visual studio 2008. In order to build these projects I need to register several tlb files that are referenced within the code base.
Has anyone also encountered this problem? And, has anyone managed to solve this?
Thanks.
Yeah regtlib was removed from vista and up. As far as I know, all it does is call LoadTypeLibEx with the REGKIND_REGISTER flag (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms221249.aspx). Maybe you could write a simple replacement.
Just came across this issue (couldn't add any components to a VB6 project on Win7). This post (Error accessing the system registry in VB 6 IDE) pointed to regtlib (which is missing from Win7). I just
set the VB6 start menu icon to 'Run As Administrator' and it worked fine for adding components and should fix any problems relating to updating the registry as well.
Regards
Ian
Finally got back to trying to build our code base on windows 7. Anyway, I went back to the installer for one of the dependencies that was causing me grief. The error message from the installer wasn't to helpful but it did point to a regasm that was being run from inside the installer.
I ran the regasm command from a cmd prompt and got more information. It appears that you need administrative credentials to perform this task and our current installers don't do the privilege escalation properly.
So, long story short, I got dlls registered and the build appears to be working.