Fluent Store 0.2.1 crashes silently if Visual C++ Redistributable is not installed

[LightWayUp]

I unintentionally discovered this when testing on a clean instance (Windows Sandbox)

Fluent Store 0.2.1 crashes silently upon launch, if Visual C++ Redistributable isn't installed.
In the Event Viewer, 2 error events are shown:

Level	Source	Event ID	Task Category
Error	Application Error	1000	(100)
Error	.NET Runtime	1026	None

Application Error:

Faulting application name: FluentStore.App.exe, version: 0.2.1.0, time stamp: 0x61735063
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.21390.1000, time stamp: 0xc6d36e55
Exception code: 0xe0434352
[...]
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\52374YoshiAskharoun.FluentStore_0.2.1.0_x64__bcem08bwhrc72\FluentStore.App.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
[...]
Faulting package full name: 52374YoshiAskharoun.FluentStore_0.2.1.0_x64__bcem08bwhrc72
Faulting package-relative application ID: App

.NET Runtime:

Application: FluentStore.App.exe
CoreCLR Version: 6.0.21.52210
.NET Version: 6.0.0
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info:

System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll' or one of its dependencies: The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)
   at FluentStore.Program.XamlCheckProcessRequirements()
   at FluentStore.Program.Main(String[] args)

Searching online leads to microsoft/WindowsAppSDK: .NET 6 and WINUI3 fails to start Unable to load DLL 'Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll' #1762, with this comment giving the suggestion to install VCRedist manually, which in this case does indeed work.

This issue didn't happen with the previous release 0.1.2, because unlike that version, 0.2.1 doesn't declare Microsoft.VCLibs as a dependency, and the only dependency Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.0 doesn't declare any dependencies either. Thus, Windows Update wouldn't automatically download the required Visual C++ Redistributable.

0.2.1 AppxManifest.xml:

<Dependencies>
  <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.17763.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.19041.0" />
  <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Desktop" MinVersion="10.0.17763.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.22000.0" />
  <PackageDependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.0" MinVersion="0.319.455.0" Publisher="CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US" />
</Dependencies>

0.1.2 AppxManifest.xml:

<Dependencies>
  <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.17763.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.19041.0"/>
  <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Desktop" MinVersion="10.0.17763.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.19041.0"/>
  <PackageDependency Name="Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.6" MinVersion="2.62107.6002.0" Publisher="CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US"/>
  <PackageDependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2" MinVersion="2.2.29512.0" Publisher="CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US"/>
  <PackageDependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.2.2" MinVersion="2.2.28604.0" Publisher="CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US"/>
  <PackageDependency Name="Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00" MinVersion="14.0.30035.0" Publisher="CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US"/>
</Dependencies>

[yoshiask]

This issue may be fixed in v0.3.0-beta, would you be able to test this again?

[LightWayUp]

Thanks, I tested v0.3.0-beta release and it works! 🎊