What is needed to run a WPF app?

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I copied my .exe, plus its vshost.exe, plus the sqlite database file it uses, but it won't run outside of Visual Studio. There's no err msg when I 2-click my .exe - it just won't run. What is it lacking?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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If you're on your local box, you would need:

The main application.exe (NOT vshost.exe - These are for Visual Studio debugging only.)
application.exe.config if there are any settings associated with the app.
Any DLLs the application references. Since you're using SQLite, you likely have a dependency on some SQLite library.

If you're deploying to another computer, then you should also consider the following:

Is the .NET Framework you're targeting installed on the target computer?
You should also build in "Release" instead of "Debug", since debug DLLs may be missing.

Generally, the following files are NOT necessary:

.pdb files
Any vshost files

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Dec 09 '14 at 03:20

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Yep; what was needed was: To deploy the .exe, need: Multilingual.exe Multilingual.exe.config Multilingual.sqlite sqlite3.dll – B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven Dec 09 '14 at 03:58
I just wrote a tip on Code Project related to this: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/851645/Quick-and-Dirty-Deployment-of-apps – B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven Dec 09 '14 at 17:34

What is needed to run a WPF app?

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