OpenFileDialog hangs on Vista

[Nick Tatham]

I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system.

One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the
tiny program below which fails in the same way.

On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a
file and it logs the filename to the console.

On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program
hangs on the ShowDialog method.

Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue?

I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already
installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it!

Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box?

Thanks,

Nick

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System;

public class Test {

public static int Main(string [] args) {
Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test");
try {
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog");
if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString());
}
return 0 ;
}
}

[Family Tree Mike]

The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add
[STAThread] before your main routine.

"Nick Tatham" <nt******@nospam.comwrote in message
news:Xn*******************@216.196.109.145...

>
I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system.

One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the
tiny program below which fails in the same way.

On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a
file and it logs the filename to the console.

On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program
hangs on the ShowDialog method.

Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue?

I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already
installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it!

Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box?

Thanks,

Nick

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System;

public class Test {

public static int Main(string [] args) {
Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test");
try {
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog");
if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString());
}
return 0 ;
}
}

[Leon]

add this line,

Application.Run(new Form());
return (0);
"Nick Tatham" <nt******@nospam.comдÈëÏûÏ¢
news:Xn*******************@216.196.109.145...

>
I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system.

One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the
tiny program below which fails in the same way.

On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a
file and it logs the filename to the console.

On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program
hangs on the ShowDialog method.

Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue?

I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already
installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it!

Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box?

Thanks,

Nick

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System;

public class Test {

public static int Main(string [] args) {
Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test");
try {
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog");
if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString());
}
return 0 ;
}
}

[Family Tree Mike]

The original post looked to be a console application to me.

"Leon" <am******@163.comwrote in message
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add this line,

Application.Run(new Form());
return (0);
"Nick Tatham" <nt******@nospam.comдÈëÏûÏ¢
news:Xn*******************@216.196.109.145...

>>
I have just purchased a new Dell Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 system.

One of my .NET 2.0 programs doesn't work on it. I have reduced it to the
tiny program below which fails in the same way.

On My old XP system, this code dsplays the OpenFileDialog, I select a
file and it logs the filename to the console.

On my Vista system, the OpenFileDialog never displays and the program
hangs on the ShowDialog method.

Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause? Is it a Vista config issue?

I can't reinstall the .NET 2.0 runtime as it says it is already
installed. I can't see anywhere in CP/Programs to uninstall it!

Shouldn't this just work out-of-the-box?

Thanks,

Nick

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System;

public class Test {

public static int Main(string [] args) {
Console.WriteLine ("OpenFileDialog Test");
try {
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
Console.WriteLine ("Ready to show dialog");
if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
Console.WriteLine ("Filename is {0}", ofd.FileName);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine ("Exception is {0}", e.ToString());
}
return 0 ;
}
}

[Nick Tatham]

The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add

[STAThread] before your main routine.

Thanks Mike.

I never got an exception - it just hung. So I couldn't follow the message!
But adding this construct fixed the problem - and my original problem as
well.

It doesn't explain why it worked fine on XP but not on Vista though.

Thanks for you help,

Nick

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Nick Tatham wrote:

>The exception tells you how to fix the issue. You need simply to add
[STAThread] before your main routine.

Thanks Mike.

I never got an exception - it just hung. So I couldn't follow the message!
But adding this construct fixed the problem - and my original problem as
well.

It doesn't explain why it worked fine on XP but not on Vista though.

You do have some network shares on Vista? Does a normal explorer open
without problems?

If you disable all network shares and remove all DVDs/CD's from drives
does it work then? (Just for testing)

FB

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