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As we find out more information about what changes from build to build in this beta, I thought it would be good to have some place to share some of this information. So I will try to post some of this information here.

Note: This information is probably not complete, it is only what I have been told or discovered.

1.0.0.10 - Initial release of Studio beta.

1.0.0.12 - Fixed Serin Flow control: serin RXRTS

1.0.0.13 -
(Maybe fix in HSerStat? - Or at least documented)
fixed the clear screen for the terminal windows(eg binary 0).
Lookdown,branch, and PWM had some minor bug fixes.
hserin timeout now matches serin timeouts(.5 microseconds). ### Manual needs to change ###


That is all for now.
Kurt

9/12/09 - I made this an announcement so it will always be here at the top.
kenjj [BasicMicro.com]

Here is some more information from Nathan for build 1.0.0.14

Not sure if anything else changed but that is all I know!
Kurt

Nathan, this is a recap of the compiler issue that I am having that I posted over on LynxMotion.
I am moving the topic over to here.

Here's the message I get from version 1.0.0.17 through 1.0.0.23:
Starting Compiler...
This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

I've created new basic and c projects but still get the same error.

-Bob

Thanks for your help with this. Follow-up to the questions regarding my system setup:

What OS are you using? Windows XP 32 bit Professional, Windows XP 32 bit Media Center Edition
Have you had any problems with other software recently? Everything works fine on all the systems I have tested with.
Do you have a second PC you can test on? I have tested it on 3 XP systems.
Are you uninstalling all the old IDEs/Studios before install the new ones? Yep, complete with power off before and after the install.
Are you using a User account or an Admin account when running the software? Yes in all cases.
What virus scanning software are you using? Norton Internet Security 2010, Symantec Endpoint 11.0.
Are you using any other security software? Nope.
Make sure your PC has all the updates.service packs for tour OS. They do.

I do use Visual Studio 2005 for development. It is my main development environment. It is installed on the 3 systems that I have tested. Perhaps this is the culprit. I'll remove Visual Studio 2005 from one of the systems and test Basic Micro Studio 1.0.0.23 on it.

-Bob

I noticed that after the installation of Basic Micro Studio 1.0.0.23, I did not have VS2008 run-time installed.
I manually installed the VC2008 run-time and Basic Micro Studio 1.0.0.23 compiled my basic and c test applications.
So I'm now running on the latest version, thanks!
I will be testing my Basic and C drivers with 1.0.0.23 very soon.

The 23 installer should have installed two Microsoft.VC90 directories in the install folder(eg c:\programfiles\basicmicro....\Microsoft.VC90...). Did these not install? If not, that is the problem. I'll have to figure out why install shield doesn't want to install them on your PC. If it DID install those directories I don't know what the problem is. Those directories are the 2008 runtimes.

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Nathan Scherdin
Basic Micro - Robotic Technology Evolved

I have confirmed that manually installing the VC2008 run-time has fixed the compile issue on all of my test systems.
On all my XP systems, this is what I did:

I did an un-install and confirmed that the C:\Program Files\BasicMicro directory was gone.
I then installed 1.0.0.23. It did install these directories, and they had content (dlls and manifest):
C:\Program Files\BasicMicro\Basic Micro Studio\Microsoft.VC90.CRT
C:\Program Files\BasicMicro\Basic Micro Studio\Microsoft.VC90.MFC

but my Add/Remove programs did not show the VC2008 re-dist.
I manually installed VC2008, the VC2008 re-dist did show in the Add/Remove programs, and Basic Micro Studio ran fine.
So far all of my testing has gone fine in Basic and C.

It won't show the 2008 redist in add/remove because it's only adding the files locally to the Studio install. They get removed when studio gets removed. On XP and up the exe is supposed to look for those directories and if it finds them there it should use the runtimes in them. This is how Microsoft says it is supposed to work on XP+(2000 is different). Obviously they are wrong for some systems. If anyone else is having this problem I need to know. If it's fairly wide spread I'll have to install the redist using Microsofts redist installer which I do not want to do.

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Nathan Scherdin
Basic Micro - Robotic Technology Evolved

I had the same problem with windows XP: error starting compiler.
i just install the vc2008 and everything works fine. You get it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en

greetings from germany