Direct2D Dependencies on Non Develpment cluster

Question

Hello all,

I developed an application in Direct2D and referred Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.DirectX.Controls.dll and Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.DirectX.dll DLLs.

Development has been done in VS2008. Everything works fine on the development servers. But when I move the DLLs to the Integration (non developement cluster) it fails with following error:

[COMException (0x800736b1): The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)]

 

[FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.DirectX.Controls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)]

   System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +0

   System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +43

   System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +127

   System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +142

   System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString) +28

   System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective)

Can anyone please let me know what i have to install as a prerequisite on my non development servers.

Answer 1

Could you try installing the the VC++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package?
Also those runtimes contain non debug (Relase) dlls, so make sure you're creating a release build.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

Answer 2

Hi,

You may use fuslogvw .exe ( or sxstrace .exe if you are using Vista and later OS) to see the details of this failure.

this article discussed how to diagnose side-by-side failures, hope it can helps.

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Answer 3

Hi Amandeep,

I'm writing to check the issue status, please feel free to let us know if you have any concern.

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Answer 4

Hello Eric,

The issue got resolved. I was not required to install any of the redistribuitables on my Win 2008 Servers. I was suppose to build the following two DLLs in release mode as all other DLLs were build by scripts in release mode before deployment:

Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.DirectX.Controls.dll

Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.DirectX.dll

So that was the catch, a very basic one though but just a simple miss by one of our developers.

Thanks for all your help.

Aman.