Visual Studio on 2003 Server

I have a very odd situation,

I have written a C# application using the 1.1 Framework and am attempting to
run that app on Windows Server 2003.  The app run fine on Windows 2000 and
XP.  However on Server 2003 it starts and then hangs.  The curious thing is
that if I load Visual Studio onto that same 2003 Server box and then run
that application from the VS IDE, it works!!  The code is the same.  The
only difference is the presence of VStudio.  Is VStudio installing something
special that Server 2003 needs to run C# 1.1 apps???   Or perhaps does
VStudio tinker magically with the environment??  We have to build an install
pack for our customer and need to solve this dilema.  Somehow I don't think
that we can get away with telling our customer that he needs to buy and
install Visual Studio to make our application run!!

Thanks in advance for any and all help on this ....

Best Regards,
Carl Huff

Is this an ASP.NET web app or a Winform app? If it is ASP.NET, then you will
need to allow the ASP.NET extensions in your IIS6 configuration.

--
Eric Cherng
MCP, MCDBA, MCSD
http://echerng.com


"Carl Huff" <carl_huff@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>I have a very odd situation,
>
> I have written a C# application using the 1.1 Framework and am attempting
> to run that app on Windows Server 2003.  The app run fine on Windows 2000
> and XP.  However on Server 2003 it starts and then hangs.  The curious
> thing is that if I load Visual Studio onto that same 2003 Server box and
> then run that application from the VS IDE, it works!!  The code is the
> same.  The only difference is the presence of VStudio.  Is VStudio
> installing something special that Server 2003 needs to run C# 1.1 apps???
> Or perhaps does VStudio tinker magically with the environment??  We have
> to build an install pack for our customer and need to solve this dilema.
> Somehow I don't think that we can get away with telling our customer that
> he needs to buy and install Visual Studio to make our application run!!
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help on this ....
>
> Best Regards,
> Carl Huff
>

Eric,

This is a good'ol C# WinForms app that wraps IExplorer to navigate thru a
sequence of websites, extracting and storing data from those pages.   That's
it.  Is their something unique about IExplorer on the 2003 Server platform?

Regards,
Carl Huff


"Eric Cherng" <ericch1@remove_the_dot-hotmai.l.com> wrote in message
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> Is this an ASP.NET web app or a Winform app? If it is ASP.NET, then you
> will need to allow the ASP.NET extensions in your IIS6 configuration.
>
> --
> Eric Cherng
> MCP, MCDBA, MCSD
> http://echerng.com
>
>
> "Carl Huff" <carl_huff@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Ox9$BmMpEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... 
>
>