I ran into this lame issue today… I wrote a C++ app sent it to my beta tester ( Andrew) and he said it failed … So i went on the mission and found the fix ! Not only did i find a fix but i found a reason and thats good because most of the time we never know the true reason behind a strange issue. The issue is normally convoluted in a sea of code that dates back years well not this time! Read on!
Reason
This is a known Windows issue, primarily occurring on Windows Vista. It can occur for several reasons.
In some cases it occurs because the machine has Microsoft Visual C++ installed, and the Visual C++ libraries have become corrupted.
In other cases it indicates that the installation of Suite did not completely finish. In some situations the Suite installation will require a reboot when finished. However, the ‘reboot’ dialog is not always displayed. In these cases the Suite install log will show:
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Restarting your computer is recommended:
In order to Finish the installation, please restart the computer
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Solution
Do one or more of the following solutions:
Solution 1: Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime. (Visual C++ users only)
If you are a Microsoft Visual C++ user, then do the following steps:
- Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime.
- Reboot the machine
- Relaunch the Suite applications.
Solution 2: Reboot your system and restart the applications.
If you have just installed Creative Suite, then perform the following steps:
- Reboot the machine.
- Relaunch the Suite applications
All i did was install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime making sure i closed visual studio 2008, once the install was finished i opened visual studio and recompiled my app and voila! my applications now work on other machines!
thank you for tuning into this epic victory … we live to code another day!
-Summey
