Re: WestWind Web ClrHost and wwDotNetBridge error on Win2K3 Server

-- 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 12:37 PM > To: profoxtech@leafe.com > Subject: Re: WestWind Web ClrHost and wwDotNetBridge error on Win2K3 > Server > > On 2017-11-09 05:35, Alan Bourke wrote: > > See > > > > https://support.west-wind.com/Thread4YH0ADK7W.wwt > > > Client tells me they've had DotNet runtimes version v4.0.30319 since > August on that server. They can't go beyond that. (Why, I don't know.) > > _______________________________________________ > > [excessive quoting removed by server]