crash at start

[phate89]

Hi.. I have a weird error with this screensaver.
I followed the readme to install it and it gets added to the list but it doesn't start. the screen flash to the black and returns normal and I can't open screensaver settings. So I checked in appdata\Local and I saw there was no Aerial folder but there was a folder CrashDumps with several Aerial.scr.***.dmp.
So I downloaded the source code to test it in vs 2015 and debug it but I got a weird error. At start (before it loads every code) directly in _corexemain I get a System.ArgumentException in mscorlib.dll with message (translated by me from italian): The path can't be an empty string or composed by only spaces.
Do you have any idea what might trigger this error?

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 Could you try v5.1 for me? Does that have the same error?

[phate89]

v5.1 works but I can't compile it, I get a different error System.BadImageFormatException (not a valid 32 bit application).. Might be something wrong in my env.

[alistairmcmillan]

:( Might be my fault then.

Could you attach one of the dmp files here please?

[phate89]

sure here it is
Aerial.scr.13456.zip

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 Could you attach a screenshot of the Aerial Settings dialog from the latest version please?

[phate89]

with the latest version I can't open settings at all

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 Are you familiar with Regedit? Could you show us the values you have under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AerialScreenSaver on your PC?

[phate89]

I don't have that at all..

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 I'm confused then. If you've run any version of the screensaver that key should exist.

How about something like HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1229272821-231175127-839231175-135808\Software\AerialScreenSaver? The long GUID number will be different but if you open regedit there should only be one or two so it shouldn't be difficult to locate yours.

[phate89]

I searched in the regedit and I didn't find anywhere the reg key.. Yes v5.1 works but no reg key

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 I'm not having much success trying to recreate the problem you're having.

Do you have .Net Framework 4.6 installed? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48130

[alistairmcmillan]

@phate89 Are you running a old preview version of Windows 10 from July last year?

[phate89]

I use windows 10 stable with the latest udpate so net framework 4.6 is included and I have it installed..

[phate89]

This is really weird.. I wasn't able to compile (both 5.1 and 6.0) or make work the 6.0 version but now everything works (20 minutes ago I checked again and 6.0 still wasn't working).. No Idea what changed.. I tried to use dependency walker to see if there was some problem in the dll linked and compile 5.1 with x86 processor destination but I don't think that might fixed something since now it compiles also with "any cpu".. Now I also have regedit keys.. weird.. Thanks for your help anyway. Great screensaver :)

[cDima]

@phate89 a new version 6.1 is out with a small fix;
I compile the version for all as "Any CPU" and "All" configuration. For debugging, this is switched to "x86" and "Debug". If you have the same debugging issues, lets write up a readme about dev setup as to help others. Glad it magically started working for you. :)