[Bug 18106] New: Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, the gives memory error

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18106

Summary: Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first
                    run, the gives memory error
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.19
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=20540)
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Memory error when trying to open the Form Designer

I installed under a clean Wine prefix.
I ran winetricks -q dotnet20 msxml6
I installed Visual C# 2005 Express from the .iso image.  I always close the
Startup window when Visual C# opens right away to prevent the

When I try to create a new "Windows Application" project, and click on Form1.cs
to open the Designer, the form does not display and the designer is blank. 
Choosing Designer from the menus displays the same, and even adding a new form
to the project has the same result.

Clicking on the blank area does update the Properties window with the details
of the Form.

Closing Visual C# and opening again, I'm now getting a popup error when
clicking on the Form1.cs to load the designer: "Attempted to read or write
protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." 
I've attached a screenshot of this. In the output window on the bottom, the
error is listed as well as an MSBuild error, even though I didn't try to build
or debug. This also happens now if I try to create a new WindowsApplication
project from the template. I get the popup right away when the project loads,
without even clicking on the form. When exiting Visual C#, after the UI is
closed, an error dialog pops up telling me "Microsoft Visual C# has encountered
a problem and needs to close." I uncheck restart and click Don't Send. I've
also attached a screenshot.

Checking my system processes, I see that WindowsApplication1.exe is still
running under wine, even though I never started debug or compiled. If I kill
this and let wine stop, and then open VC# and try again, the process repeats. 
It seems like the only time I didn't get any error loading the Form Designer
was the first run after install, but I still only had a blank white screen.  I
also went through Tools->Options and when trying to view/set the Windows Forms
Designer options on the right hand side I get "An error occured loading this
property page." and nothing else.

I'll try the Windows trick of rebooting and see if that makes a difference. 
Anyone encountered this before or know if I have to install any other
libraries?

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, the gives memory error

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18106

--- Comment #1 from Nicholas Doyle   2009-04-19 01:24:40 ---
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Error on closing Visual C# Express

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, the gives memory error

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                   |Designer is blank on first  |Designer is blank on first
                   |run, the gives memory error |run, then gives memory error

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Anastasius Focht   2009-04-19 11:59:55 ---
Hello,

please stick to *one* problem as various Visual Studio versions still suffer
from a large number of bugs.

For the issues you reported I picked out the interesting one and created a new
bug 18114 for it.

--- quote ---
Checking my system processes, I see that WindowsApplication1.exe is still
running under wine, even though I never started debug or compiled. If I kill
this and let wine stop, and then open VC# and try again, the process repeats. 
--- quote ---

This is by design. When you load an application project, a "hosting process" is
created in background - even if you didn't start debugging.

The process improves the build->run performance by pre-creating an application
domain for managed apps (which is a very costly operation), partial trust
debugging (hence the separate/special app domain) and design time expression
evaluation.

Regards

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

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--- Comment #3 from Nicholas Doyle   2009-04-19 17:23:46 ---
Hi Anastasius,

I wasn't sure if the issues were related, so I wanted to report exactly what
was happening while I tried to use the application.  If you like, I can remove
the crash after exit from the description (and the screenshot).  My main reason
for filing this bug was the errors trying to use/load the form designer.  Can
you confirm this is an issue for you as well?  I can't imagine many people
finding VC# too useful on wine without being able to create a Windows GUI
Application (though I understand that not long ago it wouldn't even install, so
things have already come a long way :).

This is my first wine bug report, so if there's anything else that you need me
to do (ie. traces, logs, etc) please let me know.

Thanks,
Nick

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--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht   2009-04-26 12:47:41 ---
Hello,

--- quote ---
My main reason for filing this bug was the errors trying to use/load the form
designer. Can you confirm this is an issue for you as well?  I can't imagine
many people finding VC# too useful on wine without being able to create a
Windows GUI
Application (though I understand that not long ago it wouldn't even install, so
things have already come a long way :). 
--- quote ---

Sure. I documented showstoppers/blockers in appropriate appdb entries.
The blocker here is the clipboard format handling. Although there has been
considerable work in this area between 1.1.19 and 1.1.20 it's still not
sufficient for VS.NET forms designer.

First bug is when the app asks if a previously registered (custom) clipboard
format is available, Wine actually queries the data list instead of clipboard
format list which is incorrect (would fail anyway because there is no data in
this (custom) format inserted yet).

VS.NET registers a crapload of custom clipboard formats.

Regards

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18106

--- Comment #5 from Austin English   2009-10-29 15:26:17 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.32 or newer) wine?

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

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--- Comment #6 from Nicholas Doyle   2009-10-30 01:08:45 ---
Yes, my wine version is now 1.1.32, and I can confirm that the form designer
still does not load, and I still receive the "Attempted to read/write protected
memory" error when trying to view a form in the designer.

Furthermore, after getting the error, closing Visual C# caused the same "This
application has encountered a problem..." crash as before.  Perhaps the crash I
am seeing is/was not related to bug 18114, but rather to the errors caused by
the designer?

I verified that opening and closing Visual C# both with and without loading a
project does NOT cause a crash on close.  The crash on exit only seems to occur
if I have also had the error loading the designer.

I have not tried to reinstall Visual C# Express under a blank wine prefix with
this new version of wine, is this something that I should try?  If there are
any logs or traces you need, I would be glad to try and do this is someone can
point me towards a quick tutorial on how to do this under wine.

Thanks,
Nick

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Richard  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Richard   2010-06-11 11:06:04 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #8 from [e-mail] 2012-05-21 14:08:50 CDT ---
This bug has not been updated for three years. Is this still an issue i current
(1.5.4) or newer wine ? 
You may also close this as abandoned if you feel that that this is issue is no
longer relevant to you.

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

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           Keywords|                            |dotnet, download
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                URL|                            |http://download.microsoft.c
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                   |                            |49ce-44c3-a2cc-d40bca9af941
                   |                            |/ENU/vcssetup.exe
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #9 from Anastasius Focht  2012-05-21 14:53:09 CDT ---
Hello,

this works quite nicely now.
The form designer is immediately shown after creating the Windows Forms
application using wizard.
You can drop controls (button) from toolbox and add event handlers.
Running/debugging also works.

Marking fixed.

$ wine --version
wine-1.5.4-185-g6c51c1b

Regards

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Alexandre Julliard  2012-05-25 13:40:50 CDT ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.5.5.

[Bug 18106] Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error

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