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Posted by ForkandBeard on March 23, 2009 - 11:28

So,

Does anyone read the ABC Notice board?

I've written a little app for ABCTales and I've introduced it via the Noticeboard but no-ones commented on it yet.

Sorry to spam (posting this
in two forums) but I'm really keen to get some feedback...

http://www.abctales.com/forum/2009/03/21/abcscraper-small-application-mo...

cat
www.forkandbeard.co.uk

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Ewan | March 23, 2009 - 13:20

Not working well with my (admittedly none-state of the art) broadband (ADSL, the liars!) connection, so I don't think it's a reflection on the app.

ForkandBeard | March 23, 2009 - 15:14

Oh dear. Perhaps it's not ready for mass consumption.

Thanks for giving it a go...

Regards
Cat
www.forkandbeard.co.uk

luigi_pagano | March 23, 2009 - 17:05

It doesn't seem to work for me. I have Windows Xp.
The error message I receive is: The application failed to inizialise (0xc0000135).
There is also a file called ABCscraper.exe.config that Windows cannot open.
Can you elighten us?

blaster219 | March 23, 2009 - 17:29

I believe the .config file is a Visual Studio file. That's what XP identifies it as on my system (I have Visual Studio 2008 installed).

As for the error, do you have .Net 2.0 or higher installed on your system? Scraper works fine on my system but I've got .net installed. A (very) quick search on the microsoft website showed that error code 0xc0000135 popped up a few times in threads where the user was trying to run the program without .net installed.

blaster219 | March 23, 2009 - 17:32

In case anyone is suspicious about the .config file, Visual Studio opens it up as an XML file. From my limited experience using XML in VS, there's nothing untoward inside.

ForkandBeard | March 23, 2009 - 20:34

Thanks guys for giving it a whirl.

Yeah the .exe.config is a harmless configuration file. It's a way of changing/storing application settings. For example I did stick some polling interval settings in there but decided against using them in the end. You can open it in Notepad if you're interested but it's not very exciting.

Just click the .exe file and it should work. As blaster219 points out you will need .NET running on your box. My dev box has .NET 3.5 but I think you should be ok with .NET 2.

Regards
cat
www.forkandbeard.co.uk