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Alexandra Stanns - 02 Sep 2005 02:47 GMT

I posted this originally in
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms -- but this is probably a
better place...

I am developing with VS 2003 -- .NET framework 1.1
I want my app to also run on .NET framework 1.0, so I define a .config file
with the following:
<configuration>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v1.1.4322" />
<supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705" />
</startup>
</configuration>

As a test, I am doing this on a plain-vanilla Windows app -- with a single
form and a single textbox.
But it does not work, on a .NET framework 1.0.

Is there a way to debug a config file? Where should I look to make progress?

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Lloyd Dupont - 02 Sep 2005 07:13 GMT

Your mail is a bit confusing....

Anyway 1st you should know that 1.1 is a debuged version of 1.0, so it's
safer to use 1.1
Furthermore I'm not quite sure you could compile against 1.1 and run with
1.0

Also "debuging" a config file has no meaningfull meaning. You don't "debug"
a config file as no there is no code in a config file.

If you want to be sure to run on 1.0, why not set your app as supporting
only 1.0 while testing, like that:

> <configuration>
> <startup>
> <supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705" />
> </startup>
> </configuration>

>I posted this originally in
>microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms -- but this is probably a
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> Is there a way to debug a config file? Where should I look to make
> progress?

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Alexandra Stanns - 02 Sep 2005 14:41 GMT

Sorry if my mail was confusing.... I may also have messed up a bit with
version numbers :-(
Basically, I develop my app on VS 2003 - v1.1.4322 - and want it to also
run on v1.3.0.705

Therefore I created a config file -- but my app does not load on v1.3.0.705
(it looks for mscorwks.dll in v.1.1.4322)

So my question is -- how do I make progress here? How can I find what is
wrong (the config file, the installation, ....)?

Thanks a lot,
Alexandra.

> Your mail is a bit confusing....
>
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>> Is there a way to debug a config file? Where should I look to make
>> progress?

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Norman Yuan - 02 Sep 2005 15:23 GMT

In VS2003's Solution explorer, right-click the app project->Properties. Then
in "Common Properties->General->Supported Runtime", click "..." button, it
gives you 3 options for the .NET runtime version.

> Sorry if my mail was confusing.... I may also have messed up a bit with
> version numbers :-(
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>>> Is there a way to debug a config file? Where should I look to make
>>> progress?

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Alexandra Stanns - 03 Sep 2005 03:43 GMT

Thanks a lot -- now it works.
The setting actually creates a config file with the same <startup> section
as the one I wrote, however it also adds a bunch of element under the
<runtime> section -- and that does the trick.

> In VS2003's Solution explorer, right-click the app project->Properties.
> Then in "Common Properties->General->Supported Runtime", click "..."
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>>>> Is there a way to debug a config file? Where should I look to make
>>>> progress?

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