I have written a program in VB.Net and run it for a few years on Vista and Win 7 without issue. It is a requirements management tool front end to an Access or SQLServer backend database.
A few months ago I installed it on Win 8. It is a 64-bit version of my program running on a 64-bit laptop. It installs fine and runs OK initially. However, after a few weeks it stops running. This has happened twice, the last time after 28 days.
When I try to run the program nothing happens - no splash screen, no error message, no entry in the Applications Log in Event Viewer - just nothing happens. The only solution has been to re-install the program and then it starts working again.
I have tried: turning off all malware, firewall and anti-virus programs; running the program as Administrator; running in various compatibility modes. Nothing happens.
I also tried removing the license file from the program directory. When I did that I did get an error message in the Application Log in Event Viewer, so the program is trying to start. But when I returned the license file it still won't start and there is no error message in the log file.
Program was written in VS 2008 under .Net framework 3.5. I don't think this is an issue, since it runs fine for about a month after install. Also, it is not the license file. The license is perpetual, and anyway if it fails the license there is a splash screen that comes up, and that is not happening.
Can anyone suggest where I might look in Win 8 to try and work out what is going on when I try to start the program?
UPDATE: Through using the Reliability Monitor I have just noticed that at 2:30pm on the afternoon of the problem Windows Installer reconfigured my application. I had the app open all afternoon. but when I shut it at around 4:40pm, then tried to open it again, the problem above emerged.
Description
Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Capability Architect. Product Version: 1.0.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: SDG. Reconfiguration success or error status: 0.
The reason for the reconfiguration was:
Detection of product '{221672D4-9B64-4550-8B8A-A13C4BE20780}', feature 'DefaultFeature', component '{4F120286-6AE1-5DFE-65E4-A4495CA3F296}' failed. The resource 'C:\Users\Public\Desktop\SDG\Capbility Architect Template v2.0.accdb' does not exist.
Now, that file is installed by default with the product. However, I had deleted it earlier that day because I never use it and that seems to have triggered the reconfiguration. Is that normal behaviour?? And why should a reconfiguration stop the program from running? And is it possible to see exactly what the reconfiguration actually did?
EXTRA UPDATE: If this is the problem then I can't replicate it :( I tried deleting the folder again but it has not affected program start up at all.
Thanks
Ian
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My first stack overflow question, here we go.
Last week the computer on which a prototype vision application written in C#/.net was running crashed due to an unreleated reason. this resulted in the need to fresh install windows (windows 10 IOT). after installing windows, halcon 20.11 progress and setting the licenses the application starts, but no output is shown on the smart window control, even tho this worked beforehand?
i have been trying to debug this problem for the last day, but have had no luck, what i have allready tried:
used the remote debugging toe verify that the image is captured and processed and "displayed".
checked the system logs for any warnings, there were none.
Tried one of the example programs the come with Halcon, which also does **not **work.
Ran the application on my development PC, which worked flawlessly as it always did.
Reinstalling Halcon.
does anyone have had any similar experiences and/or any clue how to solve this problem?
problem has been solved. in the end a reset of the bios settings to there default values did the trick. Don't know what they exact cooperative was, but at least it works once again.
I have 2 windows phone devices on my account that I use for testing. But they get locked for no reason.. I have to unlock it almost everyday. It even happened twice in one day. I haven't figured out what is causing this...
Is anyone experiencing this same issue?
**** UPDATE MESSAGE ****
This is the latest bizzare update on this bug... I've pasted my post in Microsoft Forum below:
I'm experiencing a very strange bug that I don't know if it is on the Windows Phone SDK or in Visual Studio.
I have 2 WP 8.1 devices to test an app that I'm developing. This was the sequence of events that led to this lock down:
Suddenly one phone that I used the most started to ask, almost everyday, to develop unlock the device...
Then the other phone started to do the same.
Now everytime I make a release version and run it targeting Device in Visual Studio, VS 2013 crashes... And the phone gets developer locked again.
Then I found a workaround that was to use the Application Deployment tool from the SDK only to test the release version. (Debug version it deployed without any problems on the device)
Today I forgot the manually deploy the XAP and clicked run in VS. VS crashed... Then I tried to deploy using the SDK tool it said that phone was locked... I unlocked it and clicked on the Deploy button again. Then the error: The maximum number of developer applications on this phone has been reached appeared.
I've uninstalled the app from the Windows Phone device manually and tried again and the same error occured.
I tried the other test device and had to register it again and got the same error.
Now I can't deploy any release version and I don't know how to fix this issue.
Do you know how can I fix all this Visual Studio bugs? I can't seem to find anyone else with the same problem as I'm having.
No, i have three unlocked devices in my account but one wp8.1 and other two win10, if you can upgrade your wp8.1 devices to windows 10 do that using that app because windows has inbuilt feature to developer unlock device, so your device won't get locked again automatically.
if you don't want to upgrade to and need assistance go to this link
this link requires you to login with your outlook account or may require you to login with your windows developer account.
and extra information if don't have windows developer account and want to publish your app go to this link from your windows mobile device or directly search for "Dev Share" App in windows store.
I have my processing code in dev/processing and my Arduino code put itself in Documents/Arduino.
However, whenever I get into one environment, it changes the most recent directory for the other because Arduino is written in processing.
Is there any quick way to disconnect the two environments so that they don't use the same location for "most recent directory?" I don't know whether the mechanism is a file, a registry entry or what, but I'm on Windows 8.1
I am using both Arduino IDE as well as Processing 2.1.2 in Windows 7 environment. It doesn't change the directory.
Since you are using Windows 8.1 (which is recently released), you may face very weird problems as those softwares are not tested on those OS. You will find errors for even other softwares that are designed before Windows 8.
Sigh. For reasons, I am running a windows xp virtual box in ubuntu. In this instance of windows there is an express (node) server running. Everything works fine, except that occasionally windows crashes or the virtual box freezes (perhaps after being left idle for several days). I would like to restart the virtual box (and node server) programmatically when this happens. The actual restarting of the virtual box from linux seems attainable, but I can't figure out how to get windows to run "node .../server.js" on startup! I tried putting the command in C:\AUTOEXEC.bat, and it did not start when I restarted the computer. I know I'm asking for trouble with a 10 year old OS but it's what I have to work with. Any thoughts?
Try scheduling in as a task in the task scheduler.
Tasks get executed when their triggers are satisfied, and in this case you can use the 'at startup' trigger, as described here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748841.aspx
At startup
This trigger causes the task to run when the computer starts up. The only settings for this trigger are the advanced settings described in the Advanced Settings section below.
Look out though, that information wasn't tailor-made for XP, but should do it for you.
I actually just got it working. I put a batch file in start/programs/startup that CD'd to the right directory and then ran node.
I have been using SimpleOpenNI, a wrapper for Processing, all summer now. I use it for the Kinect to make games and demos. Last week, I have been getting a fatal error in my processing window and none of the SimpleOpenNI projects will work. Here is the error:
SimpleOpenNI Version 0.20
A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x72e8f955, pid=4596, tid=4624
JRE version: 6.0_24-b07
Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (19.1-b02 mixed mode windows-x86 )
Problematic frame:
C [OpenNI.dll+0xf955]
An error report file with more information is saved as:
C:\Users\mss042\Desktop\processing-1.5.1\hs_err_pid4596.log
If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
It appears as if the new OpenNI/NITE/SensorKinect drivers do not work with the SimpleOpenNI wrapper. I have tried it with people using the old drivers and everything still works. Problem is, you cannot download the old drivers off of the websites so I cannot test if it's that or not. You can see everything I've downloaded from the simpleopenni site: http://code.google.com/p/simple-openni/
Any help with this error would be appreciated. Thanks.
Mike
It looks like there's a problem with OpenNI.dll. Make sure that:
You have the dll (It should be in Program Files where you've installed OpenNI)
Make sure you've got the Environment Variables for the Open NI paths and that the paths are correct, otherwise, you might have the .dll file, but the .jnilib wouldn't know where it is.
Had a Kinect Workshop in Uni, and my colleagues using Windows all had issues with the drivers,
so I'm just passing on what they did:
Even though they had 64-bit versions of Windows they used the 32-bit version, and used Brekel OpenNI Kinect Auto Installer - Developer Edition v1.3.2.3.exe(direct link via developkinect.com) after reading this message:
Comment 4 by tijmenva...#gmail.com, Oct 21, 2011 Hey all I have Solved
the unsatisfied link dll error on windows 7 64 bits by installing java
runtime (jre-7u1-windows-i586.exe)and (Brekel OpenNI Kinect Auto
Installer - Developer Edition v1.3.2.3.exe) I uninstalled everything
and than it worked :)
hope this helpes
in Issue#17 on the SimpleOpenNI project issues page.
Another colleague used Synapse and OSC in Processing instead of SimpleOpenNI, but she had loads of errors with the drivers (basically spent a few good hours uninstalling/installing different versions). In her case, uninstalling any previous partial or complete drivers from the machine and deleting any registry entries related to PrimeSense(Sensor, Nite) and OpenNI, then using the installers from the links on the Synapse page, worked for her.
HTH
This is a long shot, but that exact error is also given if the Kinect USB and/or power supply simply becomes unplugged. Thought it was worth mentioning as it is not obvious from the error message itself and it may help someone out if they kicked their power supply and started searching for the above exception :)