I have a project I have built in Visual Studio 2010 on a Windows 7 machine. It compiles and runs without a problem.
When I place the application on a XP machine with .NET 4 it does not run with the error “is not a valid Win32 application”
I tried everything here with no luck:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsvc/archive/2009/06/19/troubleshooting-not-a-valid-win32-application-error-at-the-startup.aspx
I have no idea what is wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks
FYI: bindump:
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 10.00.30319.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dump of file TimeKeeper.exe
PE signature found
File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE
FILE HEADER VALUES
8664 machine (x64)
2 number of sections
4D24EED9 time date stamp Thu Jan 06 09:21:13 2011
0 file pointer to symbol table
0 number of symbols
F0 size of optional header
22 characteristics
Executable
Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses
OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES
20B magic # (PE32+)
8.00 linker version
92600 size of code
600 size of initialized data
0 size of uninitialized data
0 entry point
2000 base of code
400000 image base (0000000000400000 to 0000000000497FFF)
2000 section alignment
200 file alignment
4.00 operating system version
0.00 image version
4.00 subsystem version
0 Win32 version
98000 size of image
200 size of headers
0 checksum
2 subsystem (Windows GUI)
8540 DLL characteristics
Dynamic base
NX compatible
No structured exception handler
Terminal Server Aware
400000 size of stack reserve
4000 size of stack commit
100000 size of heap reserve
2000 size of heap commit
0 loader flags
10 number of directories
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Export Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Import Directory
96000 [ 598] RVA [size] of Resource Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Exception Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Certificates Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Base Relocation Directory
94454 [ 1C] RVA [size] of Debug Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Architecture Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Global Pointer Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Thread Storage Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Load Configuration Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Bound Import Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Import Address Table Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Delay Import Directory
2000 [ 48] RVA [size] of COM Descriptor Directory
0 [ 0] RVA [size] of Reserved Directory
SECTION HEADER #1
.text name
924FE virtual size
2000 virtual address (0000000000402000 to 00000000004944FD)
92600 size of raw data
200 file pointer to raw data (00000200 to 000927FF)
0 file pointer to relocation table
0 file pointer to line numbers
0 number of relocations
0 number of line numbers
60000020 flags
Code
Execute Read
Debug Directories
Time Type Size RVA Pointer
-------- ------ -------- -------- --------
4D24EED9 cv 8E 00094470 92670 Format: RSDS, {07D03CC8-7510-4698-B5EB-6DC50714B88D}, 3, C:\Users\Mitch\Documents\Timekeeper 24.12.2010\client\TimeKeeper 24-12-2010\TimeKeeper\obj\x86\Release\TimeKeeper.pdb
SECTION HEADER #2
.rsrc name
598 virtual size
96000 virtual address (0000000000496000 to 0000000000496597)
600 size of raw data
92800 file pointer to raw data (00092800 to 00092DFF)
0 file pointer to relocation table
0 file pointer to line numbers
0 number of relocations
0 number of line numbers
40000040 flags
Initialized Data
Read Only
Summary
2000 .rsrc
94000 .text
In the project properties, is the project targeting “x64” rather than “Any CPU”?
(It does seem to say “machine (x64)” in the bindump header, which sounds like this may be the issue)
Is it targetting .net 4 full or client profile? If full, check that your XP has the full profile installed, not just the client profile.
(Unlikely to be related, but) Is the Visual Studio 2010 redist installed on the XP machine?
Check that the file hasn’t been corrupted during the transfer onto the Win32 machine (e.g. copy it back and diff it or run it on your Win7 box)