NET FrameWork 4.5.1 & WinXP

[Nigrid]

Hi all.

I'm a WinXP user with Fs9 installed into my PC. When I tryed to install the new Plang update (3.1) I read that network 4.5.1 was required for the new PlanG but, this version is not compatible with XP SO.

Is there a way to can install the new version for XP users?

Best regards.

[tim arnot]

Ah. It appears I have no XP users in my testers! :(

It seems Microsoft have discontinued all support for XP (it is a 13 year old OS, after all), so  it looks like I must either piss off Win 7 & 8 users, or XP users. For now it looks like XP users must stick to 3.0.7 (I've added a warning to the front page, and a link to the previous download)

I will make a version of 3.1 for XP users, but it needs a whole separate code base and so it'll take a little time. I will put out a call for XP testers when it's ready, but please be aware that this is likely to be a one-off, so XP users ought to start thinking about a more modern OS long term.

[Nigrid]

Hi.

Thx Tim. Apologize about the extra work. Great service, as always.

[FlyingAxx]

Ah. It appears I have no XP users in my testers! :(

It seems Microsoft have discontinued all support for XP (it is a 13 year old OS, after all), so  it looks like I must either piss off Win 7 & 8 users, or XP users. For now it looks like XP users must stick to 3.0.7 (I've added a warning to the front page, and a link to the previous download)

I will make a version of 3.1 for XP users, but it needs a whole separate code base and so it'll take a little time. I will put out a call for XP testers when it's ready, but please be aware that this is likely to be a one-off, so XP users ought to start thinking about a more modern OS long term.

Hi Tim,

This message seems to be a sudden death for Plan-G V2 which I'm still using for airport development as it is the only tool I know allowing screenshots including a grid ("geo-tagging"). An example is here (Seward, PAWD) consisting of two different screenies serving as drawing background:



Okay, the error messages from Google are annoying, but for this purpose I can ignore them as I don't need planning etc. The problem now will be that version 2 does not start with .Net 4.5. and I avoided upgrading Net Framework for this reason.

Plan-G 3 is great and stable for (VFR) flight preparation and serving as moving map, however I think I'm facing now a lot of more work in order to place such maps correctly.

EDIT: Tim could you probably PM me in case you have a hint how to download the Google tiles directly?

[FlyingAxx]

Tim,

You got an other PM including error reports. After Win7 obviously upgraded .NET4 to .NET4.5 without asking this time my Plan-G does not start anymore (neither Plan-G_v3.0.7.71 nor Plan-G v3.1.0.82). It seems to run with other apps requiring v4.5 like the updater of REX - at least it worked before I reverted it the last time back to .NET4. Do you have an idea where to look at? I don't have a clue at the moment and I don't want to re-install Windows right now (it's stable for all applications) as I'm thinking on a new hardware battle in a few months (not now).

[tim arnot]

4.5 or 4.5.1? The log you showed is the classic "bad/missing/wrong DotNet failure"

[FlyingAxx]

The installation shows .NET 4.5.1, however, I saw the mismatch too. Months ago, when NET4.5 came the first time and Plan-G did not work anymore for me, I de- and re-installed it completely without success. After going back to 4.0 everything worked fine.

I think I'll have some shopping next week for two SSDs and that's a good reason setting up the whole system again. Fortunately my FS is not running on the system drive even if I want to shift it, too. It was planned a bit later anyway...  :P   Meanwhile, during the weekend, I'll try to clean all traces of .NET but there is little hope, only.

[leonperrins]

My system doesn't like .net 4.5.1

I can't run any version of Plan G once it is installed.

[tim arnot]

This is what Axel said to me in a message:

Starting CMD.EXE as an administrator
run "sfc /scannow" and wait (about half an hour or longer - I went downstairs for watching TV)

The tool came back with the message that it has found and repaired diverse defective files. The log was offered in ".\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log". Reading the log file failed (it has binary content and it's too late now, probably I'll try it out tomorrow). However, without knowing what has been changed I just started Plan-G out of curiosity and to my big surprise it booted with success.

It worked for him, maybe it'll work for others.

[FlyingAxx]

This is what Axel said to me in a message:

Starting CMD.EXE as an administrator
run "sfc /scannow" and wait (about half an hour or longer - I went downstairs for watching TV)

The tool came back with the message that it has found and repaired diverse defective files. The log was offered in ".\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log". Reading the log file failed (it has binary content and it's too late now, probably I'll try it out tomorrow). However, without knowing what has been changed I just started Plan-G out of curiosity and to my big surprise it booted with success.

It worked for him, maybe it'll work for others.

Just to amend this: The function is described here (and I have to admit that it was quite unknown to me): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833/en-us

The only thing I had to do in a different way was starting CMD.EXE as Administrator. EDIT: Even this is described if you are clicking a bit further...