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tecfreak
tecfreak

Reputation: 105

Windows forms app (visual studio 2010) compatibility issues

My task is to make a simple application that connects to the internet (using Wininet) and downloads a text file. It then displays the data in a listBox widget. The requirement was to make a GUI based application, so I used Windows Forms in Visual Studio Express 2010.

The application runs fine on my PC, however I realized that it runs only on my PC. I installed .Net 4 and Visual Studio 2010 redistributables on another PC and it worked fine there. Now, the person for whom I'm making this wants maximum compatibility on windows PCs. I'm totally stuck here.. should I switch to an older version of VSE?

From what I could search, using /MT instead of /MD would cause the application to link statically, however my app also uses /CLR and these are incompatible.

Any ideas?

Note: I've previously made a similar app (downloading and displaying) with console output and it works perfectly fine everywhere.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 961

Answers (2)

tech-man
tech-man

Reputation: 3256

I have been in your situation.

I can give you my free .NET-application-runner (RunNetApp.exe) that automatically installs .NET Framework 4 before running your application for the first time. If the framework is already installed on target machine, it only runs your application.

I also suggest changing application's framework to ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile". It's setup is about 40MB (in comparison to 200MB of full ".NET framework 4").

Is it helpful?

Upvotes: 0

Attila
Attila

Reputation: 28792

Dependens on what is meant by "maximum compatibility on windows PCs". If you can bundle the required redistributables, your program should run (as you found on the second PC), as long as the windows on the PC is capable of executing the binaries (e.g. not a 32 bit PC trying to execute 64 bit binaries)

Upvotes: 0

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