1853 - PAC Designer: What does the error message “The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem” mean when launching PAC Designer?

1853 - PAC Designer: What does the error message “The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem” mean when launching PAC Designer?

This error message typically occurs when a user does not have Microsoft's .NET framework set up correctly for their machine. The necessary components are also provided with PAC-Designer, and can be manually installed by running the file "vcredist_x86.exe" which can be found in the PAC-Designer installation folder (typically 'c:\lscc\diamond\1.3\pac\' for PAC-Designer 6.1 or 'c:\PAC-Designerxx\ for previous versions).