i tried searching, so i hope this isn't answered and is in the right place, but i made a program in visual basic 2008 which was working completely fine when i finished it. i uploaded it online for others to download, which has also worked fine for them for several months. as of late, some users have reported that when they try to use the program, the 'open with...' window pops up because windows does not recognize the program needed to run my application. yet...it works fine on my PC, and most others (that i assume that have not redownloaded it causing this error to occur). i instruct the users to update their .NET framework in the original forum post to the latest update which was previously required for my application to work, but the issue still arises.

regardless of all my searching, i haven't found a solution. or any issues that are even similar to mine. i'm a beginner programmer (only one semester in visual basic) and that was over a semester ago, so i'm hoping it is an easy fix i'm not aware of or am overlooking. thanks in advance for any help