How to capture or prevent "The application failed to initialize properly (0x########). Click OK to terminate the application."

Question

I have a .net console application that I wrote that is being run in the background with CreateProcess. When we run it from a machine without .net installed it pops a window saying "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application."

I need this application to return an error when it can't start rather than popping up an interactive message box. Is there any way to prevent it from doing that?

Answer 1

Before callingCreateProcess, call SetThreadErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS).