Hi,
We've been running an old version (3.60) of IdealSoftwares Virtual Pring Engine for ages and it's worked like a charm.
Now when we are upgrading to 11.1 (from 10.2B05) it's stopped working. No .w's with the Active X added can be run and they cannot be opened in the AppBuilder. It's not possible to add the Active X either - everything results in the same error: OpenEdge Graphical Client stopped working.
Anybody experienced the same?
Maybe another case of this here: http://blog.consultingwerk.de/consultingwerkblog/2012/02/issue-with-certain-active-x-controls-in-openedge-11/
You need to make sure that this Active X Control works with Visual Studio 2010 compiled applications (prowin32.exe in 11.x) and DEP (data execution prevention).
Further testing makes me think this is related to Windows 7 rather than OpenEdge 11...
Jens, we're running vpe 3.6 on windows 7 64bit without problems with OE 10.2B. I haven't tried with oe11 yet.
In that case you should contact the vendor of VPE and ask for their current status related to VS2010 built applications and DEP. Maybe Progress support knows the answer already...
Which version of Windows did you try? DEP was introduced in Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Works on XP Service Pack 3 but not on Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Both 32 bits.
FYI, it doesn't seem that hard to upgrade from 3.60 to 6.10. So far I've only found one call to VPE that needs to be rewritten, PICTURE(), the method for inserting a picture. Apart from that two methods need to be called when initiating the document to set rendering mode and measurements to be compatible with version 3.60.