This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hai,
I am getting the following error while running my application.
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. reinstalling may fix this problem ". Please advice me without installing Visual Studio how this possible.

I used "Windows XP 32 bit os"

BR
Jessi

Posted 11-Sep-13 19:55pm

Member 10010073

Add a Solution

3 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2013-09-11T20:30:00

Solution 1

No, that's not a problem of Visual Studio. Your application has a *.exe.config file. That's some kind of XML file. And something is wrong with that file.
The file is normally created when you build your application in Visual Studio from the file app.config.
So just re-build your application. If that does not work, take a closer look at the app.config file.

Posted 11-Sep-13 20:30pm

Bernhard Hiller

Comments

Member 10010073 12-Sep-13 3:06am

I ll check and update.

Thanks.

Member 10010073 12-Sep-13 3:11am

I have build my application via make file. It's also SDL dependant application. If i run the app in which doesn't VC2008 it's shows the error message as said before.

Bernhard Hiller 12-Sep-13 3:42am

"run the app in which doesn't VC2008" - I do not understand that. Try to describe the problem with other words.

Member 10010073 12-Sep-13 5:11am

I am sorry. This application did not run in any pc which doesn't have Visual studio.

_Asif_ · Answer 2 · 2013-09-11T21:29:00

Solution 2

Seems the problem is in your configuration file. Can you paste your config file content here?

Posted 11-Sep-13 21:29pm

_Asif_

chandanadhikari · Answer 3 · 2013-09-12T02:56:00

hi,
you mentioned that this application is not running on any machine which does not have Visual Studio installed, but it runs on the machines which have VS installed so it can mean that the problem is caused due to some missing vc++ re-distributables. These re-distributables are basically libraries or additional code required to run the applictions and get installed by default when Visual Studio is installed on a machine, so if you want to run this application on other machines, without installing Visual Studio on them, then you need to download the vc++ re-distributable version required for this application and install them on those other machines .

In the control panel of a machine where application is running, check the version of vc++ re-distributables already installed (in the installed programs list), then download these and install them on the other machine which does not have Visual Studio installed .
You tagged the question with vc8 so this redistributable has to be of VS2005 .
look here for downloading vc++ re-distributables[^]

hope this helps !