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BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:58 am

Right, I'm pulling my hair out. And baldness doesn't look good on me. Out of the blue, the blueprint editor has decided to not fire up. I get an 'unhandled exception', am recommended to quit but can click continue. Clicking continue of course yields nothing. Here's the error log:
The type initializer for 'S9BEditor.AppServices' threw an exception.
at S9BEditor.AppServices..ctor()
at S9BEditor.App.initSingletons()
at S9BEditor.App.OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Application.<.ctor>b__1(Object unused)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)


Any suggestions? I've tried resetting cache, re-installing and nothing worked...
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:51 pm

Well. System restore helped. I'm assuming vista is trying to install some update that causes BPE to break? Basically I need to do a system restore each time I want to do blueprinting...

Edit: lol, even that stopped working. Any other way to compile stuff for TS?
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby cjbarnes5294 » Sat Sep 17, 2016 5:58 pm

TrabantDeLuxe wrote:Any other way to compile stuff for TS?


Unless you have a backup of the original blueprint editor from before TS 2014, then I'm not aware of any other alternative. :( Is Windows 10 still a free upgrade, if so maybe try ditching Vista?

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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:17 pm

I wasn't really busy with TS in the olden days unfortunately, so I don't have the older BPE. I've just re-installed TS (again...), hoping that somehow, magically, something would work. Same old bullshit of course, what was I expecting :P. Does the BPE depent on any external plug-ins such as .net framework and C++ redist?

And the answer to your win10 question, nope, I've checked and it's no longer free...
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby JamesLit » Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:55 pm

You can pick up Windows 10 Professional from a reputable key website (like Software Geeks) for about £20. :)

BPE I believe uses .NET Framework 4.5 as per TS proper, and quite possibly the same C++ library as well. But, that would logically mean that if TS works, so should BPE - if either/both of those were the issue....... :P

May be worth reinstalling them anyway? :?
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:00 pm

Personally, I'm suspecting that recent win7 updates have messed up 'things'*. At least that would explain why a system restore would work earlier this week. By the way, 20 quid isn't all that expensive! Uni PC's have win10 and it isn't halfway as horrible as I had expected so might pick a copy up one day.

*I actually have no clue.
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby JamesLit » Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:45 pm

To be honest it's quite rare that anything Windows wise that gets changed by the OS (i.e. by updates etc) actually cause this sort of issue. I'm struggling to think of reasons, here!

And yes, £20 is indeed not expensive at all, hence I suggested it. :)
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:49 pm

Well...

I've just upgraded to win10 (albeit unregistered for now), but still, no joy. Malwarebytes has found some dodgy stuff, nothing too serious and with these removed I haven't been able to fire up the blueprint editor. I'm about to defenestrate something here :roll: ...
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby TrabantDeLuxe » Sun Sep 25, 2016 7:24 pm

Re-installed win10 completely, everything works.
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Re: BPE fails to start, unhandled exception error

Postby DominusEdwardius » Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:00 pm

strangely my blueprint editor did this a year or so ago, I think the computer crashed while I was using it and something in the system registry corrupted itself meaning that particular BPE name refuses to work. The solution I found was just to copy the blueprint editor .exe and then just use the copy (keeping the original) instead :P No idea why it works it just does.

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