Initialization Warning: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core

Problem

During Designer installation you get:

Designer has stopped working

Close the program and installation continues

Then when you click Finish you see:

Initialization Warning

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Click OK and Designer continues, allowing you to activate.

After activation, you exit Designer and see:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in Designer.exe [3416]

 

When you start designer again you get

Initialization Warning

Could not load file or assembly System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Solution

You do not have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 on your machine so remove Iron Speed Designer and download and install the framework before reinstalling Designer.  See the Microsoft download center at:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22

See Also

Part VII:  Troubleshooting Applications

Installation Error Messages