[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop problem on Windows

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:19 AM, John Bonnett <jbonnett at internode.on.net> wrote:
> I have installed MD v2.4.2.1 on Windows  and when I run it I get to the
> start screen and then I get this message
>
> System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void
> Monodoc.RootTree.AddSource(System.String)'.
>    at MonoDevelop.Projects.HelpService.InitializeHelpTree()
>    at MonoDevelop.Projects.HelpService.<AsyncInitialize>b__0(Object )
>    at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object
> state)
>    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext
> executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
>    at
> System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback
> tpWaitCallBack)
>    at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object
> state)
>
> and MD closes down. I did install the pre-requisite GTK# for .NET 2.12.10
> after uninstalling a previous version (2.12.9 I think).

It looks like MonoDevelop has an out of date monodoc.dll. Not sure how
that happened, as the installer seemed to work fine on the machine I
tried. Could you uninstall MD, check the installation directory is
empty, then install it again?

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com