Sounds about right, Alan. --
rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WestWind Web ClrHost and wwDotNetBridge error on Win2K3 Server >There are some crippled version of the .Net 4 >framework out there that > won't work. The short lived .Net Client Profile version probably. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, at 06:18 PM, Richard Kaye wrote: > There are some crippled version of the .Net 4 framework out there that > won't work. > > I don't know how you've implemented your WW stuff (I'm using 6.x of > Rick's WW Client Tools) but I was also running into issues where the > framework wasn't present. I use it for SMTP and FTP. One thing I changed > relatively recently, based on Rick's recommendation, was to load the > framework on application startup. Previously I was invoking it when > firing up an email object or ftp form. According to Rick, the instance of > the framework object is scoped to the application so any attempts to > create another one will just refer back to the original instance. Also, > based on his samples I added this to my app startup: > > TRY > LOCAL m.loBridge AS [wwDotnetBridge] > DO wwDotnetBridge > m.loBridge=CREATEOBJECT([wwDotnetBridge],[V4]) > CATCH TO m.loError40 > TRY > m.loBridge=CREATEOBJECT([wwDotnetBridge],[V2]) > CATCH TO m.loError20 > FINALLY > ENDTRY > FINALLY > IF VARTYPE(m.loError40)<>[O] AND VARTYPE(m.loError20)<>[O] > DEBUGOUT m.loBridge.GetDotnetVersion() > ELSE > IF _vfp.StartMode=0 > MESSAGEBOX([dotnet CLR > error],MB_OK+MB_ICONEXCLAMATION,[My Really Cool VFP Application]) > ENDIF > ENDIF > RELEASE m.loBridge > ENDTRY > > So now when that XP or other ancient version of Windows runs my app, the > user gets a little message. Obscure to them but I know right away that > they need to install the full version of the framework. > > -- > > rk _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/mwhpr10mb1774e568cb0dbfe409709c4bd2...@mwhpr10mb1774.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
