FAQ

Not directly, but you can work around this rather easily by using a shim wrapper.

Category: CrossTalk

This implementation is not part of the windows platform FIPS validated cryptographic algolrithms.

This error will occur with most .NET applications including CrossTalk if the host computer has been configured to require cryptographic algorithms to be FIPS compliant. This is not limited to CrossTalk in any manner – in fact this affects many Microsoft products including VSTO, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and more.

For example, MD5 is not FIPS compliant but .NET uses it for object hashes, streaming of generic classes and more. These are not security related issues, but unfortunately, they trigger a FIPS conflict.

To solve this you instruct Windows to ignore the FIPS requirement for your .NET application. To do this you must create a .NET application config file and add an enforceFIPSPolicy entry:

  
    
 

This entry must go in a file that is in the same location as your EXE file and have a .config extension. For example if your EXE is myapp.exe, the .NET application config file would be myapp.exe.config.

This setting is per EXE though and must be set for any EXE which uses CrossTalk. This includes:

  • yourapp.exe.config
  • bds.exe.config
  • CTClassGen (all variants).exe.config

Once this setting is enabled, the FIPS error will no longer appear.

Additional Info

While some government and other users may have a mandate to enable FIPS, most users should not use FIPS unless they need to.

Category: CrossTalk

Use ClassGenConsole.exe with one parameter being the path and file name of the CTP file.

Category: CrossTalk

Set the read only attribute for the .pas file. CrossTalk will skip over any read only .pas files during generation.

Category: CrossTalk

CrossTalk regenerates every .pas file before each Delphi compile.

Read only .pas files will be skipped and no error will occur.

Category: CrossTalk

CrossTalk is not infected, Avira sometimes generates a false positive of TR/ATRAPS.Gen. Each time we reported it to Avira, the next Avira update fixed it. Unfortunately Avira’s detection system from time to time fails and produces false positives.

We saw several in 2010, and one in 2011. We have had no reports since 2011. You can report any false positives directly to Avira using this link.

1 [#761386] Upload via Website – False positive suspicion 14 Jun 2011 20:41 +0200
2 [#652745] Upload via Website 16 Dec 2010 01:30 +0100 16 Dec 2010 04:31 +0100 Fixed
3 [#652744] Upload via Website 16 Dec 2010 01:29 +0100 16 Dec 2010 04:31 +0100 Fixed
4 [#619795] Upload via Website – False positive suspicion 21 Oct 2010 00:16 +0200 21 Oct 2010 10:23 +0200 Fixed
5 [#619791] Upload via Website – False positive suspicion 21 Oct 2010 00:14 +0200 21 Oct 2010 10:23 +0200 Fixed
6 [#615896] Upload via Website – False positive suspicion 14 Oct 2010 14:38 +0200 15 Oct 2010 09:46 +0200 Fixed
Category: CrossTalk

(Image is out of date, .dll is now named Atozed.CrossTalk.Middle)

This message is a bit misleading as it can happen even when Atozed.CrossTalk.Middle.dll is properly deployed. It is caused by the VCRT loader that Atozed.CrossTalk.Middle.dll uses and occurs when the Visual C++ runtime .dll files are not deployed. Please see the deployment topic in the documentation.

Category: CrossTalk

This can occur when either:

  • The CrossTalk .dll files or VCRT files are not deployed properly. Please see the deployment topic in the documentation.
  • The proper .NET version is not installed.
Category: CrossTalk

Yes, CrossTalk can be used in an ISAPI application.

Category: CrossTalk

Yes.

CrossTalk only generates .pas files. However the .pas files can be compiled and used by the C++ personalities in RAD Studio.

Category: CrossTalk

CrossTalk uses the latest released version of .NET at the time of release. .NET however is backwards compatible and can load any .NET library of the current version, or any older version.

For example, if the CrossTalk release you are using links to .NET 4.6.2, you can use any .NET library for any .NET version from 1.1 to 4.6.2. In some cases for very old .NET versions, some settings may be required in a .config file to accompany your application.

Category: CrossTalk

CrossTalk can provide simple UI integration of WPF and other controls, however the focus of CrossTalk is for library integration and no specific support is provided for UI controls.

Category: CrossTalk