My windows XP SP3 machine cannot run reflector.exe

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  Hi Randall,
  
  Which versions of .NET do you have installed? (have a look at C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework and see what folders are in there which are named in the format v<something> where <something> is the installed verison of .NET).
  
  Is there an option to attach a debugger to the application as it crashes. If you can could you let us have the call stack please?
  
  Thanks,
  
  James

  James Moore September 25, 2008 04:46

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  Hi James,
  
  I am having the same problem with Windows Vista. Here is what I could get from the Disassembly window in Visual Studio .Net:
  
  000003bb mov edx,2
  000003c0 call FFFDFB24
  000003c5 mov ecx,edi
  000003c7 call 000036B0
  000003cc jmp 0000022B
  000003d1 push dword ptr [ebp-30h]
  000003d4 lea edx,[ebp+10h]
  000003d7 mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp+14h]
  000003da mov eax,dword ptr [ecx]
  000003dc call dword ptr [eax+4Ch]
  000003df jmp 0000025A
  000003e4 call 00D1907A
  000003e9 cmp dword ptr [ebp+8],0
  000003ed je 000003FC
  000003ef mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp-34h]
  000003f2 call 00126668
  000003f7 xor edx,edx
  000003f9 mov dword ptr [ebp+8],edx
  000003fc pop eax
  000003fd jmp eax
  000003ff mov dword ptr [ebp-1Ch],0
  00000406 jmp 0000040D
  00000408 call 00D18F80
  0000040d mov eax,dword ptr [ebp-38h] --> Crashed here (I think)
  00000410 push eax
  00000411 lea edx,[ebp-10h]
  00000414 mov ecx,7914B5B0h
  00000419 call 00AFEC1E
  0000041e pop eax
  0000041f lea esp,[ebp-0Ch]
  00000422 pop ebx
  00000423 pop esi
  00000424 pop edi
  00000425 pop ebp
  00000426 ret 10h
  
  I also have all .Net Framework revisions insalled up to .Net 3.0.
  I hope this helps you in diagnosing the problem. Thanks.
  
  -- Toulouse

  toulouse70 October 01, 2008 14:46

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  Hi James,
  
  Here is what I could find when I attached the debugger:
  
  mscorlib.dll!System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, object[] args = {Dimensions:[1]}, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, object[] activationAttributes) + 0x40d bytes
  mscorlib.dll!System.Activator.CreateInstance(System.Type type, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, object[] args, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, object[] activationAttributes) + 0x73 bytes
  
  Hope this helps.
  Thanks.
  
  -- Toulouse

  toulouse70 October 01, 2008 14:51

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  Thanks for the extra info.
  
  I'm stuggling to find the exact cause of this. I persume you are running 5.1.3.0 from a local drive rather than a network share.
  
  Also are you running in a locked down environment (such as a corporate domain)?
  
  Thanks,
  
  James

  James Moore October 01, 2008 16:21

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  Yes, I am running 5.1.3.0 from a local drive.
  I don't think I am running in a locked down environment. I am trying to run it from my laptop at home.
  Thanks.
  
  -- Toulouse

  toulouse70 October 01, 2008 20:25

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  Hi James,
  
  Did you make any progress on this one? Do you have any suggestions to what I could try to make it work on Windows Vista?
  Thanks.
  
  -- Toulouse

  toulouse70 October 06, 2008 14:06

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  Are you trying to run Reflector from the temporary folder that you unzipped it to? I had the same error but then transferred the contents from the temp file to an actual directory on my HD which seemed to resolve the issue.

  ljlynn October 08, 2008 14:20

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  I am runing from a folder on the hard drive. To be precise, I created a folder, C:\Reflector, and copied the content of the zipped file into it.
  
  -- Toulouse

  toulouse70 October 08, 2008 23:21

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  Hi all,
  
  Randall emailed us this morning to inform us Microsoft have found the issue with his machine which was causing Reflector to crash. He had a bad font file (in his case CZTsans.ttf) which caused .NET and Reflector to crash.
  
  It might be worth trying to remove non-standard fonts if you are also suffering from this issue and then adding them back one at a time (running Reflector each time) to see if you have this same issue.
  
  James

  James Moore October 09, 2008 04:55

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