Launching my deployed my app gets "has stopped working" error. How do I debug this?

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Published on 2010-04-05T23:30:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 23:33 UTC
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I deployed a VB.Net app and ran it and I get 'AppName has stopped working" "Windows is checking for a solution to the problem" along with a Cancel button under Windows 7. Under XP I am only getting the option to Send the error report to Microsoft or not.

There is no apparent way to hook into a debugger. I am not getting any exception data. I have put msgboxes at the very start of my code and they are not hit so it is failing before any of my code is even executing. I have checked all dependencies that I can think of.

I developed the app on VS2008 Windows 7 and deploying to Windows 7 and WinXP.

I need some advice - how do I debug this?

Thanks, Brad

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