I recent spent a very frustrating day trying to get a program that was built with vs2005 running on a pc without visual studio installed. Any pc with visual studio installed had no problem running the simple exe, but without, this error always appeared:
"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."
Straight away I meddled with "Multi-threaded / Multi-threaded DLL", but going totally static wasn't possible as some external librarys were being used that insisted on DLL action. So forget the static, and play nice.. Installed vs2005 runtime on the target machine, and vs2005 runtime SP1. Still no luck. I was compiling in XP, and vista was on the target machine. Maybe an issue there? The vista machine probably wasn't up to date with windows updates too.
Anyway, six frustrating hours later, I opened up the project in vs2008 instead, converted it, and soon managed to get it to compile. This worked!
So it looks like I'll be using vs2008 for all my pc projects now.
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