I'm running into a slight problem with the deployment to a Dell XPS 12 with Windows 8 installed.

I've changed the User Access Control to Never

I've placed the following in the AppMain.cs for the main WinForms interface layer project:

using System.Security;

[assembly: AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers]

But I continue to get a System.MethodAccessException error.

Any clues ... other than to install Windows 7 Professional :-D.

Here is another clue:

Attempt by security transparent method 'SouthendCRMWin.AppMain.Main()' to access security critical method 'System.AppDomain.add_UnhandledException(System.UnhandledExceptionEventHandler)' failed.

This is the offending line of code:

// Add the event handler for handling non-UI thread exceptions to the event.

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomainUnhandledException;

Just as a test I built an empty StrataFrame Windows Application and here is the error in the Event Viewer:

Fault bucket -311547793, type 5
Event Name: CLR20r3
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: TestApplication.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 5282cd1f
P4: MicroFour StrataFrame UI
P5: 1.7.6.0
P6: 5282b038
P7: 4b
P8: 36
P9: System.MethodAccessException
P10:
Attached files:
C:\Users\Todd Cahill\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC9DE.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Todd Cahill\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_TestApplication._5ed89756f454716c01e24f869d2487d34397fc1_71d2d649_1535ccdc
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: e00a819f-4bfd-11e3-8258-5c514f5008ec
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: 3aefc0518904f554fb5a35a4579e44ab

Now here is the fun part ... if I run the application from my development machine by accessing the directory of install on the client machine ... it works just fine ... even over a wireless connection it is fast .. therefore, it has to be something with that dadblasted Windows 8.1 security nightmare!

Now

Charles T. Blankenship
Senior Consultant
Novant Consulting, Inc.
704.975.7152
http://www.novantconsulting.com

Hi Charles,

I just left you a voice mail with my number, but in case we cannot communicate via phone I will explain how I install my SF applications:

I use InstallAware setup to take care of runtime libraries and other assemblies, but the key is that all SF and 3rd party assemblies I put them in the same folder as the application and not in the GAC folder.  In the past I had a lot of issues dealing with the GAC which tries to keep copies of all versioned assemblies and somehow my application got confused loading the wrong assemblies until I manually remove the old ones from the GAC.

I don't have any customer using Windows 8.1 yet but I have tested all my SF applications in Windows 8.0 and the InstallAware setup worked just fine and the applications worked just fine.  Be aware that in InstallAware I configure my shortcuts to run as "Administrator".

Again I develop on a Windows 8.1 computer and test all my applications there and also on virtual machine images.

Edhy Rijo