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msn@jrbrady.com - 21 Apr 2005 20:09 GMT

This question has come up before and no one has yet answered it.

I have a VB.NET application distributed to about 100 users. Today, on of my
users received this message, along with the message ".NET Framework
Initialization Failed," the first time he tried to run it. No other user has
received this error. He's running XP.

There is one three-year old KB article about this error, which acknowledges
it's a bug, but offers no solution. What is this problem, and is there a
solutiuon.

TIA

James Brady

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Alvin Bruney [MVP - ASP.NET] - 22 Apr 2005 00:14 GMT

manually copy the dll to the system folder, then register it at the command
prompt. i suspect the application will be flakey from then on because msc*
has several dependencies that may not be correctly registered. The best bet
is to uninstall and re-install. Repeat until it works :-)

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msn@jrbrady.com - 22 Apr 2005 17:46 GMT

Thanks, Alvin, this makes sense. My customer, though, is not real computer
savvy, and is getting impatient. It'll be a pain talking him through this.

:^(

> manually copy the dll to the system folder, then register it at the command
> prompt. i suspect the application will be flakey from then on because msc*
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Willy Denoyette [MVP] - 22 Apr 2005 18:31 GMT

> manually copy the dll to the system folder, then register it at the
> command prompt. i suspect the application will be flakey from then on
> because msc* has several dependencies that may not be correctly
> registered. The best bet is to uninstall and re-install. Repeat until it
> works :-)

What exactly do you mean with register and system folder?
This DLL is not a COM server, and he doesn't belong in in the system folder.

Willy.

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Alvin Bruney [MVP - ASP.NET] - 23 Apr 2005 18:44 GMT

> What exactly do you mean with register and system folder?

It *does show up in the system folder, for instance on my machine a copy
runs in c:\windows\system32\URTTemp. I know that wasn't what you meant but i
got off on a technicality.

> This DLL is not a COM server, and he doesn't belong in in the system
> folder.

True. My bad.

In OP's case, i believe a re-install is in order.

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