Convert Vb.net app to run on WinPE

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Hi,

I hope someone can throw some light on the following situation:

I am very new to programming. However, I have built a vb.net 2013 application and have tried to run it within a WinPE environment. My application is mainly someone else work, as encrypting and de-crypting text strings is beyond my programming skills.
The application is unable to start error code(0xc0000135). I know this is because WinPE does not support the .Net Framework and my application needs these libraries to run!
This is all very strange to me, I thought here would be a plug-in or something similar, considering they are both Microsoft products!

Anyway, moving on, I now need a way to convert my program into a native programming language, so that there are no dependencies on the .Net stuff.

I have tried to use some of the online conversion tools without any success. I have also come across Mono, which seems to offer cross platform support, as I think it bundles up dependent libraries within the app. However, I have tried several times to complete a native compile, without any luck!

I am not a programmer and anything dissimilar to vb.net throws me.
If anyone has any suggestions, they would be gratefully received. Basically I need a way to either port and wrap my application so that it runs within a WinPE environment?

Modules Declared:
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Thanks in advance.

Posted 27-Feb-15 10:33am

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Dave Kreskowiak 27-Feb-15 17:31pm

You didn't mention which version of the .NET Framework your app is targeting, nor which version of WinPE you're using.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2015-02-27T11:36:00

Solution 1

Whoops. Nevermind. Even the latest WinPE doesn't support the Crypto features of the .NET Framework. This is because you're not running on a full version of Windows. The Crypto API just isn't in WinPE.

Posted 27-Feb-15 11:36am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-15 19:00pm

5ed.
—SA