Question

I have made an application in visual studio 2010 on a windows xp computer. When I compile the release version and run it on a windows xp computer, it runs fine.
When I on the other hand try to run it on windows 7 I get the “This program has stopped working” error message. Running the application in compatibility mode doesn’t change anything. Can someone tell me what I can try to do?

Thanks.

Answer 1

With the information you provide, it might be a windows 7 vs xp problem or that you don’t find any resource that you are looking for. If I were you I would:

• Get sure that app was compiled by any cpu
• Check windows error log to see if there is any message
• Run app as administrator
• Use error handling (try/catch) to see exceptions by showing them in UI or logging to a text file.

EDITED: TRY-CATCH example

Try
  //CODE
Catch ex As Exception
 Dim writer As New StreamWriter("C:\MyLog.log", True, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
 writer.WriteLine(ex.Message)
 writer.Close()
End Try