http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18486
Summary: Simply Invoice aborts with "System.Exception: Cannot create ActiveX component" Product: Wine Version: 1.1.21 Platform: Other URL: http://www.simplyinvoice.co.uk OS/Version: other Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
A Linux user mentioned in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7282541 that he wanted a package like "Simply Invoice" http://www.simplyinvoice.co.uk/ for till management, but that he didn't want to run "Simply Invoice" under Wine. (Presumably because it wouldn't work well.) So I gave it a shot.
The installer first tried to install .net 2. That didn't go so well, so I did "winetricks dotnet20". Then it aborted with a "invoked runtime incorrectly" dialog, so I did "winetricks vcrun2005". That failed because some boot time thing was unhappy, so I wiped .wine, did "winetricks vcrun2005 dotnet20", and reinstalled the app. That did the trick. The app now installs and starts up. However, when you try to log in to the trial database, it complains it can't create an activex component, and doesn't work after that.