Microsoft .NET Framework. Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.

Does this look familiar to anyone? I have no idea why this would start apprearing when launching the desktop application. Once this appears at launch, which is everytime, the whole program is ...

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Microsoft Employee

9 years ago

andyryanh

Please try to reinstall .NET 4.5 or later on your PC. And latest Sep 2017 version of Power BI Desktop is suggested to be installed.

Best Regards,
Herbert

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