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10-22-2008
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| | Re: OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add [STAThread] before your main routine. "Nick Tatham" <ntatham1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9B3F607A7EFC7ntxnd@xxxxxx Quote: > > I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system. > > One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the > tiny program below which fails in the same way. > > On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a > file and it logs the filename to the console. > > On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program > hangs on the ShowDialog method. > > Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue? > > I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already > installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it! > > Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box? > > Thanks, > > Nick > > using System.Windows.Forms; > using System; > > public class Test { > > public static int Main(string [] args) { > Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test"); > try { > OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog(); > Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog"); > if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { > Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName); > } > } > catch (Exception e) { > Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString()); > } > return 0 ; > } > } |
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10-22-2008
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| | Re: OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista add this line, Application.Run(new Form()); return (0); "Nick Tatham" <ntatham1@xxxxxx> дÈëÏûÏ¢ news:Xns9B3F607A7EFC7ntxnd@xxxxxx Quote: > > I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system. > > One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the > tiny program below which fails in the same way. > > On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a > file and it logs the filename to the console. > > On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program > hangs on the ShowDialog method. > > Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue? > > I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already > installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it! > > Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box? > > Thanks, > > Nick > > using System.Windows.Forms; > using System; > > public class Test { > > public static int Main(string [] args) { > Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test"); > try { > OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog(); > Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog"); > if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { > Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName); > } > } > catch (Exception e) { > Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString()); > } > return 0 ; > } > } |
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10-22-2008
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| | Re: OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista The original post looked to be a console application to me. "Leon" <amoon.nj@xxxxxx> wrote in message news  5E2AE3B-AB93-4552-B809-62F1190DA377@xxxxxxQuote: > add this line, > > Application.Run(new Form()); > return (0); > > > "Nick Tatham" <ntatham1@xxxxxx> дÈëÏûÏ¢ > news:Xns9B3F607A7EFC7ntxnd@xxxxxx Quote: >> >> I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system. >> >> One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the >> tiny program below which fails in the same way. >> >> On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a >> file and it logs the filename to the console. >> >> On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program >> hangs on the ShowDialog method. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue? >> >> I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already >> installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it! >> >> Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nick >> >> using System.Windows.Forms; >> using System; >> >> public class Test { >> >> public static int Main(string [] args) { >> Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test"); >> try { >> OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog(); >> Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog"); >> if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { >> Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName); >> } >> } >> catch (Exception e) { >> Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString()); >> } >> return 0 ; >> } >> } |
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10-23-2008
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| | Re: OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista > The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add Quote: > [STAThread] before your main routine. I never got an exception - it just hung. So I couldn't follow the message! But adding this construct fixed the problem - and my original problem as well. It doesn't explain why it worked fine on XP but not on Vista though. Thanks for you help, Nick |
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10-23-2008
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| | Re: OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista Nick Tatham wrote: Quote: Quote: >> The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add >> [STAThread] before your main routine. > Thanks Mike. > > I never got an exception - it just hung. So I couldn't follow the message! > But adding this construct fixed the problem - and my original problem as > well. > > It doesn't explain why it worked fine on XP but not on Vista though. without problems? If you disable all network shares and remove all DVDs/CD's from drives does it work then? (Just for testing) FB -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lead developer of LLBLGen Pro, the productive O/R mapper for .NET LLBLGen Pro website: http://www.llblgen.com My .NET blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma Microsoft MVP (C#) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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