Deploying WPF application: .NET 3.5 issues

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Published on 2010-03-08T09:33:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 9:36 UTC
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Hi all,

Users around my country are currently beta-testing our application. My app uses WPF & Linq, so I need .NET 3.5 installation. On most system, everything works find, including automatic installation on .NET 3.5 on machines that do not have that installed yet.

However, on one machine (XP SP2) my application does not run. The user reported no issues during .NET 3.5 installation (except for a process that need to close before the installer could continue - he closed the process and continued).

The application crashes on startup. To debug this issue, I did the following:

  • Have him reboot his machine
  • Let him manually re-install the .NET 3.5 framework (no errors reported)
  • Have him run a test WPF app that only displays a button -> also crashes
  • Let him send the .NET 3.5 installation logs -> these are huge, don't now where to look

Does anyone have strategy on how to debug such issues? I expect that this will occur more when the application is released..

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