Application crashes on Windows Vista

Question

I have developed an application using .NET framework 4. It uses SQL CE and WPF. The application already installed on many machines(Windows XP SP3/Windows 7/Windows 8) and it works fine. When some customers try to install it on machines running Windows Vista (with SP1 or SP2) the application crashes and it pops " application has stopped working. Windows is checking for a solution to the problem.. ". I get no other exception messages and everything seems to be installed fine. Can you suggest a solution?

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem is solved. It turns out that i was not a x86 issue and it doesnot encounter only on windows vista. The same problem/error was observed on windows xp but there there was an error signature showing up. In Windows vista i had to inspect the error from the event handler. The error showing was something similar to this:

Event Type: clr20r3 P1 :HelloWorld.exe P2 : 1.0.0.0 P3: 515b6326 P4: system.data.sqlserverce P5 : 4.0.0.0 P6: 4fcd17f1 P7: 8f0 P8: 25
P9: System.windows.markup.xamlparse

After searching i found that the solution was to install this Microsoft update on the machines http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26368