What Windows error code for expired license? - windows

My C# Windows program checks the license and exits if the license is expired after showing an explanation popup.
What exit code should I use when exiting in such a case?
Environment.Exit(exitCode);
Searching the 0-15999 Windows error codes did not lead me to any obvious one.

Using exit code 1 is OK.
From Hans Passant's comment:
Standard error codes are not better, there is no innocent "license expired" error code defined in Windows. it may lead the user onto a wild goose chase thinking that all the Google hits he gets are accurate. This can get out of hand pretty badly sometimes, he'll reinstall the operating system. You have half a billion error codes available to use for your own error reporting, look in WinError.h for the pattern. If you already report the error then an exit code of 1 is sufficient to indicate gross failure.

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A program caused the program to stop working correctly

I've developed a software using National Instruments LabWindows/CVI and installed the .exe in a Windows 7 32 bit PC with 4GB RAM.
When I run my software, sometimes I get the following error.
"A program caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available"
This is very random and sometimes this error never comes.
Can anyone help me to understand this issue please. I've reviewed my software code many times and I am sure that I am not doing anything wrong in the software which causes this error to come up.
Is this anything related to windows and how can I resolve this? Help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Sujith Rajan
I have encountered similar problems several times.
This may happen even with simple programs like a console application used to get input from user and display some data on screen after processing it.
Usually, this is an indication that your computer is unable to provide enough resources to this program or that there is a bug in your code.
It might be random due to the following reasons:
The Processor might already be busy with several demanding tasks and your program needs to be closed due to this. At other times, when it works well, the resources might be available.
Your program might have a certain logical error that appears at runtime only when certain conditions are fulfilled. (such as an erroneous conditional statement)
Your program might have an infinite loop.
Windows suspects your file to be harmful to the system (for some reason).
There are youtube videos that tell you to go set DATA EXECUTION PROTECTION to resolve. This is a red herring. Its also potentially harmful, especially if you are running old dos apps (because you have to for some reason).
If the program throws a unhandled exception , of any sort , you will get this error message.
If you launched it with this code paragraph...
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo(pathToTarget)
Dim p As Process = Process.Start(psi)
Dim bIfinished As Boolean = p.WaitForExit(itimeout)
If bIfinished = False Then
p.Kill()
End If
iretVal = p.ExitCode
pathToTarget is the full path to your target exe/bat (TARGET) file
timeout is an integer that represents milliseconds. 2 minutes would be 2*60*1000
bfinished will be true if the program ended by itself. NOTE- this is not the return code. If it failed to finish in (2 minutes in this example) bFinished will be false.
p.ExitCode can be checked to see what the TARGET returned. Typically a 0 is success and anything else is an error code.
This is the message box mentioned by OP, (autoAging happens to be the exe I used to demonstrate this) . It also says 'XYZ has stopped working'. Google needs to know that!
Note that code will continue running in YOUR app so you can do clean up if you like. Clicking or not clicking "Close Program" has no effect on HOST that I have been able to tell.
If you own the code to the TARGET, make sure you handle all errors and return an appropriate code. That way your calling app (HOST) can know how to react.
You also avoid this msgbox.
If you don't own the code to TARGET, you just have to do the best you can. If there is some output you can readily check, do that. Otherwise I'd assume failure and proceed on that assumption.
This message box does consume resources. Although its not a huge issue, enough of them will run your box out of memory.

Is there a registry of which Windows functions returns what error codes?

I'm on the troubleshooting end of a obscure problem and all I have is this error code and I need to work backwards from that, it would really help my cause if I could identify what Windows function returns what error code, MSDN has a fairly extensive listing of errors returned by functions but I can't do a reverse lookup...
Visual Studio comes with the errlook.exe utility that tries to give you a friendly error message given an error code.
The Exchange team have also released a small tool that you pass the error number to, and it shows you the appropriate headers, sometimes with descriptions:
C:\>Err.exe c0000005
# for hex 0xc0000005 / decimal -1073741819 :
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION ntstatus.h
# The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at
# "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s".
USBD_STATUS_DEV_NOT_RESPONDING usb.h
# 2 matches found for "c0000005"
You can try to download Wine source code and search it for the error. Obviously it's not 1:1 with actual Windows, but might help, if you have no other clue.

The thread '<No Name>' (0xb24) has exited with code 0 (0x0)

whenever i try to run program for example,
if i have to run "frmphonebook" so in
Application.Run(new frmphonebook());
I typed but when i run it it run another form, and it happens to each and every form and it is displaying output as
The thread 'vshost.RunParkingWindow' (0x63c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0xb24) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
how to solve this ?
You can give your threads a name it would also help you in your debugging...
But in many apps threads are created implicitly and you have no control over the name.
So that is not an error message. Code 0 means everything went according to plan. Any non-zero code usually indicates an error.
edit: You can also disable the display of these messages, when debugging, do right click on output, and choose what do you want see.
If a thread has exited with code 0 it ran successfully. On Codeproject is a Beginners-Guide-to-Threading
This article on threading might also be helpfull. This question on so could also be of use. A list of System Error Codes
One of the things you will learn about using the Debugger is that you will see what we might call "the soft white underbelly" (an allusion to alligators' anatomy) of the system: all kinds of DLLs being loaded and unloaded, the somewhat complex arrangement of "helper" threads being started and stopped... etc.
It can be distracting to a less experienced user, to see all of these messages. However, over time, you will come to understand that the Debugger is simply being truthful and verbose. The details it is displaying for you might not really be relevant to your debugging process, but it cannot "know" that; it is only displaying factual information, and you have to sort out what is relevant and what is not.
As for Windows Forms applications, I have myself noticed that there seem to be several "helper" threads, typically with no name, or (as is frequently seen by me when debugging), they are named things like "vshost.RunParkingWindow". Typically, you have to trust that the system is creating threads on your behalf, in addition to any threads you might create yourself. As others have suggested, give your own threads meaningful names so you can tell them apart from the system's threads.
You can get further insight into the multithreaded structure of your Windows Forms app by putting a breakpoint somewhere in your UI update code, and when it hits, use Debug/Windows/Threads to bring up a view of all the threads running in your process space. You'll be quite surprised, I think, by how many there are! Try creating and .Show()-ing several forms in your app, one by one. I think you'll see that each .Show() operation creates a new window, and with it, several supporting threads for that window.
You may also see messages in the debug window such as the following: "A first chance exception of type 'System.ObjectDisposedException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll". Many times there are system exception handlers that perform a reasonable default action on your behalf. This message appearing without a break in the debugger indicates that some default handler took care of this exception for you.
The system support for something like a Windows forms application is somewhat complicated, to make YOUR implementation easier and simpler. When you run the debugger, you get to see some of these details. Over time, you will learn what is "usual" and what is indicative of a problem.
Check to see if there are some files in your web app that have been rendered inaccessible. For my case my chart control created a text file which was read only and it threw an exception. Deleted the file and the folders and voila
i found your solution i think....i the visual studio go to project >properties >linker >system look for the Subsystem line and click the down arrow and change to Console(....words....).
it worked for me !! ENJOY"

What is the "Cannot set allocations" error, who emits it and what can I do about it?

We've been plagued for several years by occasional reports from customers about a non-descript error message "Cannot set allocations" that appears on startup of our app. We have never been able to reproduce the problem in our own test environments so far. I have now run out of ideas for attempting to track this down. Here's a collection of observations that have accumulated over time:
Error message text reads "Cannot set allocations" (note absence of punctuation).
The window title simply reads "Error" (or the localized equivalent).
The "Cannot set allocations" text is always in English regardless of OS locale.
I have so far not been able to locate the DLL or EXE containing the message text.
Google is chock full of reports of this error for a variety of different products - but no solutions.
The only unifying aspect between the affected products I could make out so far was that they all appear to come in the form of DLLs that load into third-party processes (such as addins for Visual Studio or Windows Explorer shell extensions).
Our app is actually a shareware COM-addin for MS Outlook, written in Delphi (i.e. native code - no .NET).
The prime suspect in our case is the third-party licensing wrapper that we're using which decrypts and uncompresses our DLL into memory on the fly. Obviously I couldn't simply give an unprotected version of our app to the affected customers to verify this suspicion. Maybe the other vendors that this has been reported against are using similar products.
Debug versions of the protection wrapper supplied to us by the licensing vendor yielded no results: The log files looked exactly the same as from sessions where the error did not occur. Apparently the "inner" DLL gets decrypted and uncompressed all right but for some reason still fails to get loaded by the host process.
By creating an unprotected "loader" DLL we have been able to pinpoint the occurrence of the error somewhere behind the LoadLibrary call that is supposed to load our DLL into memory.
Extensive logging and global exception hooks in our own code (both the unprotected loader and the protected "core"-DLL) yielded no results at all. The error is obviously raised somewhere else.
The problem described in this earlier question of mine was very probably prompted by the same issue. This was before we created the unprotected loader stub.
The error only occurs at about 1-2% of our customers - whereas typically all installations at any affected customer's site are affected the same.
Sometimes the error goes away after we release a new version but often it will come back again after a couple of weeks or months.
Once the error has started to occur on a machine it does so consistently.
The error never occurs while connected to the affected machine via remote access (e.g. VNC, RDP, TeamViewer, etc.) and none of the affected customers are within travel distance from us so all we have to go by is log files and "eye-witness reports".
One customer reported that the error message dialog apparently was non-modal, i.e. he was able to simply move the dialog box to the side and continue working with the application (minus the functionality that our DLL would have provided). Not sure whether this is universally true in all other occurrences, too.
In some cases customers have been able to permanently rid themselves of the error by disabling or uninstalling other addins from other vendors that were sharing the host application with our own product.
The error has so far been observed on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
During the last few weeks we had a surge of reports from Outlook 2003 / Windows 7 users. Could the situation have been made worse by a recent Windows/Office-update?
Does anyone have any experience with this error at all?
Or any more ideas for investigating this?
I have only recently had this happen, which prompted my search and I ended up here. I can tell you that with me for sure it is in windows 7 home premium BUT ONLY WITH IE9 (which I hate by the way) it reduces the user back to the dummy stage and assumes that we have to be repeated flagged about everything.It will keep asking you if you want to disable add ons to speed up load times but usually on things that aren't really the things slowing the browser down in the first place,it is there is too much garbage loading in the first place.But back to the "Cannot set allocations", I for one have never expirianced it in any other browser which is not to say it doesn't happen with them.
This is going to be pure guess-work, but it sounds like maybe your third-party licensing software is trying to load your DLL at a particular location in memory, which - on these failing systems - happens to already be occupied by something else, perhaps a global hook DLL.
If you have a customer who is willing to work with you a bit, it might shed some light on the situation to get a crash dump (e.g., with ADPlus or maybe simpler with Sysinternals' ProcDump) when the error message is showing. That would show what modules are loaded and possibly the callstack (if it is from a message box at the time of the error as opposed to one that is catching an exception after the problem).
I also have experienced the "Cannot set allocations" issue. Royal pain. I had disabled Java, since I did not seem to need it, I used add/remove programs to remove Java from my system. Then I stated to get those errors. I have reinstalled, but disabled Java in IE explorer. Now I do not get the error anymore. Not a programmer, don't know why this happened. Maybe a clue for someone.
Win 7 - 64bit OS IE Explorer 10. Hope this helps someone figure this out. John
I've seen this happen. In my case a global hook dll created a large memory file mapping, perhaps to the memory the licensing dll was counting on.
I see "Cannot set Allocations" when I open google chrome only. Also after that, chrome closes with a msg saying "Whoa chrome has crashed..."
Still no solution :(
Also not a programmer, but it always happens when I open Chrome. It opens second window with error message 'cannot set allocation'. I usually close it and go on my way. if i don't it usually causes a crash. doesnt happen on any other browsers.

ANTLR “Cannot launch the debugger. Time-out waiting to connect to the remote parser.”

One of my ANTLR grammars running in AntlrWorks throws:
“Cannot launch the debugger. Time-out waiting to connect to the remote parser.”
In the past this message usually goes away but this one is persistent. On searching the ANTLR lists (e.g. http://www.antlr.org/pipermail/antlr-interest/2009-June/034659.html) there are hints that the error message is nothing to do with what it seems but could be a grammar error.
Has anyone got tips as to how to "reboot" or find the bugs in this situation?
I've found that the Windows firewall rules can really interfere with the debugger, so make sure you haven't set it to block the Java VM.
Also, try waiting a bit and then choosing the "Debug Remote" option, often the debugger just takes a little while and the main process times out, but the debugger does still come up.
It may or may not relate - but we got rid of the problem as follows:
On a UNIX box it didn't occur. On Windows it did. There were two parser rules that differed by case (e.g. myfoo and myFOO). When they were resolved the error went away.
I updated the ANTLRworks but the error persisted until we "solved" it as above.

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