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Re: VS 2005 vs. VS. NET 2003 Michael Dunn8-Feb-07 8:36 Michael Dunn 8-Feb-07 8:36  You need to install the VC2005 redistributables on other computers. Look in %VCDIR%\sdk\v2.0\bootstrapper\packages and you'll see vcredist dirs for the various CPUs. Run the appropriate installer on the other computer. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear? Re: VS 2005 vs. VS. NET 2003 #realJSOP8-Feb-07 23:39 #realJSOP 8-Feb-07 23:39  You probably compiled with MFC DLLs instead of statically linking. You have two choices: 1) Provide the MFC redistributable files with your app 2) Re-compile your application with MFC statically linked. If you're not using MFC extension DLLs, there's really no reason to link dynamically. Consider this - linking statically to MFC with a basic (minimal) app generates an EXE file of about 250k, but that's the only file you have to ship. - linking the same app to MFC DLLs generates an app of about 128k, but you have to include additional DLLs that are several megabytes in size. As the app grows and you use more of the MFC library, it really doesn't matter how you link, but IMHO, the best practice is to avoid dynamic linking if at all possible. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! [modified] pnpfriend8-Feb-07 6:46 pnpfriend 8-Feb-07 6:46  Hi, I have a c++ project created by VS 2003 and VB project. They are on intranel network. The application runs OK on network. However, once I upgraded them to VS2005, the application (.exe) doesn't run on the machine that doesn't have VS2005 anymore and I got the error messages saying Error message for application created by C++ ============================================== "This applicatino has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." Error message for application created by VB ============================================ "Ojbect can't create" I made the research and found out that in order to run any application, created by VS 2005, on the machine that doesn't have VS 2005 installed, I need Framework 2.0 So I downloaded Dot Net Framework 2.0 and SDK (setup.exe) (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en[^]) The problem solved for application created using VB but not for C++. What am I missing? I rearch again.. and found out I need WindowsInstaller 3.1 so I downloaded again and still not working. Could you please help me what do I need to do so the C++ application will also run on the machine that doesn't have VS 2005 installed. Thank You. -- modified at 13:04 Thursday 8th February, 2007 Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! Mark Salsbery8-Feb-07 8:47 Mark Salsbery 8-Feb-07 8:47  Some hopefully helpful info: Redistributing Visual C++ Files[^] Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! pnpfriend8-Feb-07 11:56 pnpfriend 8-Feb-07 11:56  Thank you. I will try it I did downloaded and try with ClickOnce Deployment and C++ 2005 Redistributable Package(x86) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zebw5zk9(VS.80).aspx[^] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235287(VS.80).aspx[^] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&DisplayLang=en[^] it doesn't work yet. Don't really know what am I missing. Hopefully the link you give me will give me more information. Thank you, Mark. Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! Mark Salsbery8-Feb-07 12:16 Mark Salsbery 8-Feb-07 12:16  What's the exact error message you see now? Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! pnpfriend9-Feb-07 4:36 pnpfriend 9-Feb-07 4:36  Hi Mark, I'm getting this error message. My proj was first created in VS 2002, then upgraded to VS2003. No problem on running on any machine. but once I upgraded to VS2005, I got following error message. Error message for application created by C++ ============================================== "This applicatino has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! Mark Salsbery9-Feb-07 5:37 Mark Salsbery 9-Feb-07 5:37  I don't know if this helps. From the docs for the error message: If a manifest is present in your application but a required Visual C++ library is not installed in the WinSxS folder, you may get one of the following error messages depending on the version of Windows on which you try to run your application Re: problem After Upgrading from VS 2003 project to VS 2005! pnpfriend9-Feb-07 6:57 pnpfriend 9-Feb-07 6:57  Oh any information is really helpful for me. And I just looked at it. I think this is it. I'll try to work out with it and see if I can get it. ^_^ if I stil can't get it, I'll come to to GURUS like you. Thank you so much Mark. Windows Standards Compliance vipin_nvk8-Feb-07 5:43 vipin_nvk 8-Feb-07 5:43  Hello I have an GUI application, which is dependent on a service for few of its features. Whenever the GUI application is executed (for the first time), I install this service and start the service. Now, if the GUI application is executed in GUEST mode, my application will not be able to install the service and start it, since GUEST mode users are not allowed to install/start service. So, what i was thinking was to prompt the user for admin user name and password and then impersonate the ADMIN login and install plus start my service and then revert back to GUEST mode. I wanted to know that how far this approach of mine, i.e. impersonating ADMIN login and reverting back after installing the service is acceptable as per a standard WINDOWS application. Is it right to ask the user for ADMIN login and password and impersonate it and revert back whenever its necessary ? Thanks. Re: Windows Standards Compliance James R. Twine8-Feb-07 6:24 James R. Twine 8-Feb-07 6:24     Your post talks about execution of the application, which to me implies that it is already installed.  A lot of applications require an administrative user (or a user with administrative rights) to install it.  Is this an option for you, so that the service can be install at installation time and set to start accordingly?    Or are you far past that point?  :P    Most users are generally not used to having to enter authentication information more than once, much less be asked by an application for the Administrator's authentication information.  Some might be suspicious of the application asking for that information.  At least, I know that I would.    All that taken into consideration, might be easiest to get the Administrator's information and then use CreateProcessWithLogonW(...) to launch an application that installs and starts the service instead of impersonating and reverting back your own (application's) identity.    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not!<HR>If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles Re: Windows Standards Compliance vipin_nvk8-Feb-07 7:00 vipin_nvk 8-Feb-07 7:00  My application is installed on a USB Flash/ Hard disk and directly runs from there, hence it need not be installed on to the PC using administrator rights. So, this isuue of installing the service incase the user has not logged on as Administrator has come up.. can you help me out ? Thanks. How big can be executable? oleg638-Feb-07 4:50 oleg63 8-Feb-07 4:50  Hi, Now my executable is more than 80 MB. Is there some recommendations for the size of executable? Thanks. Re: How big can be executable? Hamid_RT8-Feb-07 5:11 Hamid_RT 8-Feb-07 5:11  Yes break your file(exe) to dll files WhiteSky Re: How big can be executable? oleg638-Feb-07 6:14 oleg63 8-Feb-07 6:14  Is there some recommendations for size and how to do that properly? Thanks. Re: How big can be executable? James R. Twine8-Feb-07 6:12 James R. Twine 8-Feb-07 6:12     Depends - are you talking about its physical size on disk, or its footprint when in memory?    Converting things like static LIBs to DLLs may actually increase the total size of your end-user distribution, because when you link in a static LIB, you only pull in the functions that you need.  But a DLL will contain ALL functions in the library, even if your application only uses 5 out of 80 of them.    If you are talking about your footprint, 80MB may or may not be all that bad, depending on what your application is doing.  If it is acting as a database or processing engine, it might not be bad.  If it is a fancy text editor working with a 1MB file, it might be.    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not!<HR>If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles Re: How big can be executable? oleg638-Feb-07 6:41 oleg63 8-Feb-07 6:41  Actually my application is a scientific application which combine MFC based front end and calculations in Fortran static library. During the run program doing a quite freqent allocations/deallocation of big arrays for the calculations. And another concern is a project compilation time. It's take a while to compile. Could you recommend something about it? Thanks. Re: How big can be executable? James R. Twine8-Feb-07 8:20 James R. Twine 8-Feb-07 8:20     Since you are not building the libraries (they are [preexting] Fortran libraries), you are seeing app build delays.  Correct use of pre-compile headers is likely the best way to improve compilation times.    Breaking up larger CPP files into small ones can improve build times if you are making code changes, but might not affect release build times.  Other than that - no suggestions.    As far as runtime performance, not constantly throwing away allocated memory (keep it around and reuse it as much as possible) is likely your best option.  Your users know the kind of application they are using and should expect it to be a bit of a hog at times.    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not!<HR>If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles Re: How big can be executable? #realJSOP8-Feb-07 23:44 #realJSOP 8-Feb-07 23:44  On top of what James said regarding app performance, if you're app is creating/destroying a lot of threads, consider creating the threads just once, and then just starting them. Creating/destroying threads can cause quite a bit of overhead. As far as file size, an 80mb file could take quite a bit of time to initially load. You might want to consider breaking the app into DLLs that load when needed the first time, and stay in memory until the app is shut down. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Dshow.h is missing!!!? lolo088-Feb-07 4:34 lolo08 8-Feb-07 4:34  Hi, I downlowded The Project "ScanChannelsBDA.src" from: http://nate.dynalias.net/ScanChannelsBDA/ScanChannelsBDA.html When I compile the source code I get this error: Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'dshow.h': No such file or directory c:\digital-tv\scan-tv.zip\src\stdafx.h 15 Where can I find "dshow.h" . Please help, I need to compile this project. Thanks Lassaad Re: Dshow.h is missing!!!? James R. Twine8-Feb-07 4:37 James R. Twine 8-Feb-07 4:37     Google for DirectShow...    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not!<HR>If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles Re: Dshow.h is missing!!!? lolo088-Feb-07 6:36 lolo08 8-Feb-07 6:36  Hi, My friend i tried this and much more but I reelly have a big problem to find "dshow.h" lassaad Re: Dshow.h is missing!!!? Mark Salsbery8-Feb-07 8:28 Mark Salsbery 8-Feb-07 8:28  The header comes with an SDK. Unless you install the SDK and follow its instructions on setting the development environment to where the header/lib/exe files can be found then the compiler isn't going to find it. Mark Re: Dshow.h is missing!!!? Mark Salsbery8-Feb-07 5:21 Mark Salsbery 8-Feb-07 5:21  The DirectShow SDK is included with the Microsoft ® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Platform SDK[^] Re: Dshow.h is missing!!!? ravidborse29-Dec-09 23:02 ravidborse 29-Dec-09 23:02  Look For Microsoft SDK in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include or otherwise download Microsoft SDK Thanks & Reply

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