I have an internal program that was created by an ex-employee using Visual Studio 2005. The program had gone through it's various beta stages (initially it was done in VB 6). At some point the program was rewritten or converted using VS 2005. We never had any real problems with the program while the employee was here, actively working on the program. However, the employee quit two months ago and I've only recently had to install the program and I have been having trouble getting the program to run once it was installed. The system I am installing it on is a DELL Optiplex GX270 running XP Pro SP2. I had done a clean install of the OS prior to reissuing the system to the current user. One of the initial steps to installing the program (per instructions provided) is to install owc11.exe. I mention this because it becomes an issue later on. To install the program everything is pretty straight forward. The program does also install .NET framework 2.0.
I have also installed the program on one other machine (Powerspec 91), it runs on this system.
When I launch the program, I immediately get the Send Error Report window. The top level details of ther error show the following information:
Error signature
EventType : clr20r3 P1 P : ventsilencer.exe P2 : 1.0.0.0 P3 : 444052f2
P4 : ventsilencer P5 : 1.0.0.0 P6 : 444052f2 P7 : 15 P8 : c6
P9 : system.invalidoperationexc
eption
My problem is that the program runs on all of the other workstations that it needs to. All of those machines had seen the previous versions of this program, I say this because perhaps those systems all had something loaded on to them that allowed the program to run. I have uninstalled the program, and reinstalled it.I've installed a .NET runtime, I've installed previous versions in an attempt to recreate the same setup that the other machines might possess with no luck. I'm not a programmer yet management is looking to me to solve this issue since the guy that created the program is gone and getting his help on the matter may not really be an option.
I will wait for any further instructions to gather and provide information as needed.