Win32 PS apps don't start after installing? - Do you have the .NET framework?

[LigH]

The current Win32 installation was built using Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 (Version 9). Therefore they need the Microsoft .NET package to start. If you don't have .NET, you will only get a quite unspecific error message that the application failed to start, and reinstalling may fix that ... but (shame on Microsoft) there is no clue that a missing .NET framework is the reason. Unspecific error messages are useless.

I am not sure which .NET version is required. Windows XP users may need both version 1.1 and 2.0 already for several different programs, most probably one of them will be the right one for PS too...

[Xordan]

The current Win32 installation was built using Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 (Version 9).

2008 actually... and they don't use any .NET at all, so I would be surprised if they required it (although it's possible I suppose).

[LigH]

I could not load the applications as long as .NET was not installed.

I believe that either the MS VC runtime DLLs have some dependency to the .NET framework, or the .NET framework installs some supplemental DLLs to the system.

The msvc?80.dll and msvc?90.dll collection in the application folder is not sufficient to run PS, on a freshly installed Windows XP incl. SP3.

[Sen]

Hmm, we are not talking about this issue?
http://hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=33054

Sen

[LigH]

We do, Sen... Either .NET or the "Visual C++ Runtime" may work. Someone with a virtual Windows system may check that more or less easily.

[Elvicat]

i had to install Visual C++ Runtime on a laptop i was trying it on and i don't think it has .net on it yet