[Mono-winforms-list] Lots of people get stuck by missing decoders in libgdiplus

[Rafael Teixeira]

I've seen lots of first-time users of MWF, getting stuck with the uninformative:

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was 
thrown  by the type initializer for System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI ---> 
System.Reflection .TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by 
the target of an invoca tion. ---> System.NotSupportedException: Either 
image format is unknown or you d on't have the required libraries for this 
format.
in <0x0014a> System.Drawing.GDIPlus:CheckStatus (Status status)
...

What normally means that libgdiplus isn't finding one of the native
decoding libraries.

I do think that it would be better to give a more detailed message
that tells exactly which library is missing or didn't like the bitmap
stream. Comments?

Regards,

-- 
Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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