CRX XI R2 runtimes causing "Runtime to Terminate in an unusual way" error

Question

HI,
I am using RDC in Visual Strudio 2008, and am deploying using Sp5 msm's to a vista machine.
The following call, which works fine on the dev machine,
          variantt vtEmpty;
          vtEmpty.vt = VT_EMPTY;
          CX::IReportPtr spReport;
          spReport = m_spApplication->OpenReport(strFileOrPath, vtEmpty);
casues the error
"Runtime error
Program ......Tbsales..exe
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusal way."
Declaration of m_spApplication in header file:-
CX::IApplicationPtr m_spApplication;
I am at my wits end to try and resolve this. If have checked the obvious things like making sure the file is there - actually it doesn't matter whether teh file is there or not.
Any assistace is greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Mike
Edited by: Mike Stoodley on Aug 7, 2009 5:17 AM

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
3 things not going for you, RDC, .NET 2008 and Vista.... RDC was built for Visual Studio 6 and is not officailly supported in any  flavour of MS's .NET Studios. Even though it's C++ which should not matter, the Studio still uses the updated C++ runtime. I've seen issues where the debug version of MS's runtime work just fine but then compiling to Release mode all sorts of issues pop up... something different betweeen Microsofts builds or the way code is handled when compiled. Debug tends to be more generous in handling errors within the IDE than it does when run in Release mode.
The other issue is the latest releases have been built using .NET 2005 compiler to make CR DEP aware and the result is MS's Framework is now causing problems for our runtime. But should not be an issue with an RDC app but the RDC is build using the same code stream so it may have unusual side effects.
So it's not neccessarily a CR bug, could be a MS issue or could be just the way you are handling the various methods in .NET...
In either case if it is a bug we can get it escalated to be fixed and you will get a credit for the case. If it is a coding issue then you won't but should have a fix.
Thanks again
Don