Hello folks,

some guys complained about .NET Framework 3.5 WPF 3.x apps not working ... so I looked into it.

Example app: "Adobe Digital Editions 2.0" which requires .NET 3.5 SP1

Prerequisite: clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX and 'winetricks -q dotnet35sp1'

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$ pwd
/home/focht/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Digital Editions 2.0
...
wine ./DigitalEditions.exe
...
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00001388,(nil),0x000b,0x00000104,0x3009b09c,0x5ec5d4): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"clr20r3"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"digitaleditions.exe"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"2.0.0.0"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"5058357c"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"presentationcore"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"3.0.0.0"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"488f140b"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"4975"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"159"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"system.invalidcastexception"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL"
...
Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.get_DUCECompatibleMILPtr()
   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.UpdateBitmapSourceResource(Channel channel, Boolean skipOnChannelCheck)
   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.UpdateResource(Channel channel, Boolean skipOnChannelCheck)
   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.AddRefOnChannelCore(Channel channel)
   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE.IResource.AddRefOnChannel(Channel channel)
   at System.Windows.Media.ImageBrush.AddRefOnChannelCore(Channel channel)
   at System.Windows.Media.Brush.System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE.IResource.AddRefOnChannel(Channel channel)
   at System.Windows.Media.RenderData.System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE.IResource.AddRefOnChannel(Channel channel)
   at System.Windows.UIElement.RenderContent(RenderContext ctx, Boolean isOnChannel)
...
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Well, that's bug 33384 -> 'winetricks -q windowscodecs'

It goes further but still crashes, now with:

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...
LIBRARY_LOADED
has 1 records
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Web"
fixme:time:GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation (0x145b60) stub!
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from apartment threaded to multi-threaded
wine: Call from 0x7b83aa5b to unimplemented function windowscodecsext.dll.DllGetClassObject, aborting
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x000003ff,(nil),0x0001,0x00000000,0x32bd5c,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L".NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Unrecoverable system error."
...
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00001388,(nil),0x000b,0x000000d2,0x3009b09c,0x5ec5d4): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"clr20r3"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"digitaleditions.exe"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"2.0.0.0"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"5058357c"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"windowsbase"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"3.0.0.0"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"488f1338"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"da"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"1b"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"fatalerror"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL"
...
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Setting 'windowscodecsext' to 'native' works around (just like 'windowscodecs' in winetricks recipe).

Source: http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/e002d2eacfc5371bc4a964515448c9ad2db52e76:/dlls/windowscodecsext/windowscodecsext.spec

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   1 @ stub DllGetClassObject
   2 @ stdcall IWICColorTransform_Initialize_Proxy(ptr ptr ptr ptr ptr) IWICColorTransform_Initialize_Proxy_W
   3 @ stdcall WICCreateColorTransform_Proxy(ptr)
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@austin/winetricks maintainers:

For the time being it might be useful to add this additional override to winetricks by default as part of 'winetricks windowscodecs' recipe.

With that modified recipe the app goes further ... only to crash again.

+relay gives a hint:

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002b:Call KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW(7a09e7d8 L"CLR: Managed code called FailFast, saying \"") ret=7a14be4c
002b:Ret  KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW() retval=0032c130 ret=7a14be4c
002b:Call KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW(7a3c3f80 L"Unrecoverable system error.") ret=7a14be4c
002b:Ret  KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW() retval=0032c130 ret=7a14be4c
002b:Call KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW(7a09e7cc L"\"\r\n") ret=7a14be4c
002b:Ret  KERNEL32.OutputDebugStringW() retval=0032c130 ret=7a14be4c 
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FailFast? That looks like bug 32323
Indeed, 'winetricks corefonts' works around (actually only 'arial32.exe' installer is needed).

With the small recipes in place "Adobe Digital Editions 2.0" starts successfully and ebooks can be managed/read.

Regards