Save As XLSX file crashes PowerBuilder

[Former Member]

Hello All -

We have an application we recently upgraded from 11.2 to 12.6

The PB 12.6 build version is 4091 (Chris - I guess that is the latest release version)

Previously, the client used to save reports to XLS and it was fine for reports with lesser no of rows

As the reports grew in size, they wanted to save it in XLSX format and we migrated the app to 12.6

The reports work fine in our machine, but, in few machines, when trying to save the file as XLSX, the app simply crashes

No error messages, warnings, just a neat, abrupt crash

The users have been having XLSX (Excel 2007 or later) support on their machines, but this doesn't seem to work the way it should

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Krishna

[Former Member]

Yes, that is correct ... the PC's that you deploy your application to require the .Net 4.0/4.5 run time installed in order for this feature to work

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna;

  Yes, I believe that build 4091 is the latest EBF level for PB 12.6.

  Any chance that you can wrap the SaveAs () code in a TRY..CATCH block to at least stop the application from crashing? If so, the exception object could contain more details of exactly what the run-time issues are.

Regards ... Chris

[Former Member]

Hi Chris -

Sure, I will try that and let you know

BTW, is this being reported by many others or am I alone?

I did see that saving as XLSX needed .NET framework 4 or later

Is it possible Windows 7 users would not have .NET framework?

If that is the case, is there an easy way we could get it to their machine?