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Good day fellow coders

I've experienced a situation where i was responsible for developing a module/section in an existing system. When i ran my visual studio everything works perfectly (saving to the database and editing information from the database). When i gave my project manager the debug folder to test, it just bombed but when i run visual studio it works.

Can anyone please assist me because i'm looking like an idiot

Thank you

Drizzybass
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    There could be a 1,000 reasons for why this is happening. When you post a question, you have to provide as much code and information as possible so people here can help you. You have provided none. I suggest you edit your question adding your code, exception messages, environment settings etc. – Koby Douek Jun 20 '17 at 12:01
  • When running the debug an error message pops up "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". Meaning information from the database doesn't return. This error only occurs when running the debug in the bin folder. When i actually run the application through visual studio it then returns the information. – Drizzybass Jun 20 '17 at 12:12
  • Bomb = preventing the program from executing any further – Drizzybass Jun 20 '17 at 12:12
  • This is no terror attack haha – Drizzybass Jun 20 '17 at 12:12
  • What kind of project is this? What is your database? – G.Anıl Yalçın Jun 20 '17 at 12:15
  • @Drizzybass `"Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". Meaning information from the database doesn't return.` Don't make assumptions, and always check if you actually get anything from the db. instead of just doing stuff with it – EpicKip Jun 20 '17 at 12:15
  • It is a visual studio 2012 wpf application. I can get information from the database but only when visual studio is actually running. So the database is fine and loaded with information. – Drizzybass Jun 20 '17 at 12:26
  • Show us the code that is 'bombing'. – mjwills Jun 20 '17 at 13:15
  • @Drizzybass, How did you give your project manager the debug folder to test? Do you mean that you change the VS machine or others? Not really run your app, please enable the Exception settings in your VS:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/038tzxdw(v=vs.110).aspx, and then debug your app using the VS IDE, how about the result? – Jack Zhai Jun 26 '17 at 07:45

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Write an installer that installs all the dependencies and does all the necessary configuration. Ship that to your manager instead of a debug folder. I can recommend InnoSetup.

If it still bombs, take a crash dump and analyze it. It will give you an exception name and a line of code which is responsible.

Thomas Weller
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