WACK Crashes when clicking "view results"

Question

The Windows App Certification Kit is crashing on me in the final step, when I click "Click here to view the results". I'm still able to get to the results by navigating to where the HTML file is stored on disk, but I thought I would post the crash log here:

Note, this doesn't seem to be a crash with my app, but actually a crash with WACK. 

See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Class not registered
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabel.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Label.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
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appcertui
    Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Windows%20Kits/8.0/App%20Certification%20Kit/appcertui.exe
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Microsoft.AE.Windows
    Assembly Version: 6.2.0.0
    Win32 Version: 6.2.8400.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Windows%20Kits/8.0/App%20Certification%20Kit/Microsoft.AE.Windows.DLL
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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Microsoft.AE
    Assembly Version: 6.2.0.0
    Win32 Version: 6.2.8400.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Windows%20Kits/8.0/App%20Certification%20Kit/Microsoft.AE.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.Windows.SoftwareLogo.Shared
    Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.8400.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Windows%20Kits/8.0/App%20Certification%20Kit/Microsoft.Windows.SoftwareLogo.Shared.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
appcertui.resources
    Assembly Version: 6.2.0.0
    Win32 Version: 6.2.8400.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Windows%20Kits/8.0/App%20Certification%20Kit/en/appcertui.resources.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

Answer 1

That wasn't the full trace, I've attached the full trace here:

http://pastebin.com/h5FrLDbb

Answer 2

Hello,

when you double click on the results .htm file in explorer, what application opens the file e.g. internet explorer, etc.?

much appreciated,

mike

Answer 3

I have Chrome set as my default Browser so it opens in Chrome when I double click the htm file. 

Answer 4

If you right click on a htm file and choose Open With, Choose Default program, and select Internet explorer, do you see the above error with the ACK?

thanks!

mike

Answer 5

I don't know if this could be a coincidence, but I'm seeing a very similar crash in one of my apps:  it's a .NET Framework 3.5 application, which, when deployed on Windows 8 Release Preview (build 8400), gets exactly this same crash.  The problem seems to be that calling this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://any.valid.url.com/");

generates exactly this stack trace.  On previous versions of Windows, this code starts the default browser and loads the URL given as the parameter, but on Windows 8, the calling app crashes.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

You Found a solution?

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Save the xml file, and let the app crash. Then go to the XML file, right click it, and Open it with Internet explorer. 

Answer 8

This worked to me....

   Dim oProcess As New System.Diagnostics.Process
   oProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe"
   oProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "http://ononnononn.onon"
   oProcess.Start()

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Answer 9

I'm also having this WACK crash in Windows 8 RTM with Visual Studio 2012 Express RTM.

Answer 10

The crash does not happen when Internet Explorer is set as the default program for .htm files.

Note that this should not lower any priority for getting this crash in WACK fixed when Chrome is set as the default program for .htm files, not that it looks like there's any priority on this issue anyway.

Answer 11

Exactly!
Whenever I used Chrome as Default.

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Answer 12

I wonder how that can be even a problem. I do not want to see the code how MS tries to display the XML. Calling ShellExecute("open", xmlpath) ought to be enough.