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[ill]

So I have a nice and complex project set up in visual studio and everything is great. Only I noticed just now that when I try to run my built application from just Windows Explorer instead of from within visual studio nothing happens. No process shows up in the task manager.

I did some googling and most problems seem to be from missing dlls and people get error messages popping up.

For me though it's on the same PC that I built it on and ran it on from within MSVS. I'm getting no info as to why the application isn't running.

My only ideas are that I configured something in the project properties incorrectly.

Edited by ill, 26 November 2012 - 02:07 PM.

[fastcall22]

By default, the working directory of a project when run inside the IDE is the project directory ("$(ProjectDir)"); outside of the IDE, it is the directory containing the executable ("$(TargetDir)"). Double-check your program for safe handling of "missing" resources and other errors (print an error message, write to a file, and etc).

The working directory for the project in Visual Studio can be set under "General->Debugging" in the project properties. (Be sure to set it for all of your project configurations, otherwise you'll get a nasty surprise when you try to deploy your project!)

Edited by fastcall22, 26 November 2012 - 02:19 PM.

[ill]

Oh yeah that must be it. My application was logging errors to a text file and I should have checked it. My assets directory wasn't pointed to correctly and I probably need to change the working directory.

Normally I throw an exception. It's just weird that windows wasn't telling me an error occured when the exception went uncaught. So annoying.

[SiCrane]

You may be running into one of the situations when even crashing doesn't work.

[MarkS]

You may be running into one of the situations when even crashing doesn't work.

Wow! Thanks for posting that! I never would have guessed it was possible.