Vista - Using depends.exe seems to kill my .net app - general problem?

Hello

I'm trying to debug a problem that occurs on a random number of my
customer's machines - namely, my WPF app seems to vanish without trace, and
without doing anything useful (like an error message).

This is a .NET 3.0 app on Win32.

As part of my testing, I started using Depends (depends.exe aka Dependency
Walker) to figure out what was going on ... and I found that whenever I ran
my app hooked by Depends, it dies almost immediately. That's very strange.

That set me wondering if, on my customer's machines, there is something (not
necessarily Depends) which is hooking applications and causing my WPF app to
die.

I realize that I won't get anything necessarily useful out of Depends on a
..NET app, but this was an interesting observation. Any idea why hooking a
..NET app would reliably cause it to die??

FWIW, here's the captured text from Depends ...

00:00:00.000: Started "XFREEMAIN.EXE" (process 0x112C) at address
0x00400000. Successfully hooked module.
00:00:00.016: Loaded "NTDLL.DLL" at address 0x7C900000. Successfully hooked
module.
00:00:00.016: Loaded "MSCOREE.DLL" at address 0x79000000. Successfully
hooked module.
00:00:00.063: Loaded "KERNEL32.DLL" at address 0x7C800000. Successfully
hooked module.
00:00:00.063: DllMain(0x7C900000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"NTDLL.DLL" called.
00:00:00.063: DllMain(0x7C900000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"NTDLL.DLL" returned 1 (0x1).
00:00:00.063: DllMain(0x7C800000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"KERNEL32.DLL" called.
00:00:00.063: DllMain(0x7C800000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"KERNEL32.DLL" returned 1 (0x1).
00:00:00.141: Injected "DEPENDS.DLL" at address 0x08370000.
00:00:00.172: DllMain(0x79000000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"MSCOREE.DLL" called.
00:00:00.188: DllMain(0x08370000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"DEPENDS.DLL" called.
00:00:00.188: DllMain(0x08370000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000000) in
"DEPENDS.DLL" returned 1 (0x1).
00:00:00.188: GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsAlloc") called
from "MSCOREE.DLL" at address 0x79006079 and returned 0xFFBADD11.
00:00:00.203: Exited "XFREEMAIN.EXE" (process 0x112C) with code -1073740791
(0xC0000409).



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