Re: C++ VS 2005 Application works in Debug, not in Release Mode

From:
"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:10:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<OtNlMhneIHA.4144@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Just curious: did you think about whether or not telling us what the error
was might be helpful?

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

"Phil Rounds" <prounds_dontspamme@cassandragroup_nospam.com> wrote in
message news:9FFEE2BF-455D-4AFA-8723-1F73445FE8D6@microsoft.com...

I have a C++ application which runs in debug, though not release, mode.

The application opens a dialog box, which generates an error when run in
release mode. It instantiates correctly, but the OnInitDialog() method
throws an error.

The dialog itself is simple, it has only a progress bar and a bitmap.

When I look at modules which get loaded, I see that comctl32.dl gets
loaded
twice, once from the Windows\System32 directory, once from the
Windows\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft... directory. Could this be the problem?

My code in the OnInitDialog() method now looks like this:

MyDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
   CDialog::OnInitDialog();
   ::AfxMessaageBox("Hi from MyDlg, Just after CDialog::OnInitDialog()",
NULL, NULL);
    return true;

   /* my real code */
}

When I run this in debug, I get the message box. When I run this in
release
mode, I get an error.

Any help would be appreciated
--
Phil Rounds

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