I'm using Visual Studio C++ 2010 and I've been using it for about 3 months now. Recently, It refused to start, giving me a "Operation could not be solved" error whenever I tried to do that. I tried reinstalling and now it's saying "Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version = 4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies . Invalid pointer (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004003(E_POINTER))"
Please help, I'm unable to open the program at all, and I can't program anything in windows until I get this fixed. I suspect it's something in the registry but I don't really know.
suggestion to narrow down your issue
Download .NET Framework Verification Tool to verify whether .NET Framework 4 is installed correctly on your machine or not.
If it verified successfully, could you please type Devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs to skip loading added to VSPackages. More info about this.
Take care.
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Trying to open/create C++ projects in VS 2019 (v16.9.6) gives me errors like this:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.VisualC.Utilities, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.
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OK
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I still get it after updating to latest VS 2019, rebooting, cleaning up %APPDATA%\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio, and disabling all the extensions.
Actually I don't even get that much detail trying to create a simple empty or console C++ app, I get a messagebox with "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation".
Google gives me 0 hits for that exact Microsoft.VisualStudio.VisualC.Utilities error, some similar ones suggest it might be a problem with Lightweight solution load mode, but I think that's only an option in 2017?
Any help much appreciated!
Solved it by using the "Repair" function in the Visual Studio Installer.
What to do to solve "The “GetDeploymentPathFromVsixManifest” task failed unexpectedly" when trying to debug a VS extension project??
Same question was already asked multiple times with different source reasons, all for VS2017 usually for upgrading VS extensions from VS2015, and it should have been solved with VS 2019. Yet, it just popped up.
The "GetDeploymentPathFromVsixManifest" task failed unexpectedly.
System.TypeLoadException: Method 'get_JoinableTaskFactory' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.ExtensionEngineHost' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.16.0, Version=16.9.2017.12405, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' does not have an implementation.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.ExtensionManagerUtilities.GetExtensionEngine(ISettingsManager manager, Boolean deletePendingUninstalls)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.GetDeploymentPathFromVsixManifest.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__26.MoveNext()
I have tried all the solution for the same error found on SO, so far to no avail. I am using VS 2019 Community 16.9.2, updated all packages, downgraded some to try, nothing really changes this error.
This is my first attempt on VSIX and I just downloaded an existing project from github and compiled it.
The github project is working (probably) since the extension is available on the marketplace.
Any other suggestions? Searches on this error in combination with the JoinableTaskFactory dont return exactly many results.
For me the solution was to do at least one of the following steps:
Delete the obj-folder in the project
Execute Reset the Visual Studio 2019 Experimental Instance. You can find this tool when you search it in the windows search bar.
Clean and Rebuild the project
Sometimes it helped if I did only one step and sometimes it only worked after doing all the steps.
I couldn't find out if there is a specific pattern behind, but doing all of the above steps always fixed the error for me.
Another issue where I got the same error was if there was the wrong external program selected under Project Properties -> Debug -> Start external Program. For VS2019 I need to select C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
If I switched between Visual Studio Versions, then sometimes a different Visual Studio version was selected.
Uncheck: "Deploy VSIX content to experimental instance for debugging"
in solution properties->VSIX
Also Update installed NuGet packages.
I have downloaded and installed the free Community Edition of VS 2015 from Microsoft. After the install, I am unable to use VS 2013 Professional, which was working fine before the install. The start page shows, "Content Load Error". The solution explorer shows the following errors:
An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame. This information is also logged in "C:\Users\VeluMain\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml".
Exception details:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsShell5.LoadPackageWithContext(Guid& packageGuid, Int32 reason, Guid& context)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.GetPackage()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()
I searched in Google, but couldn't find any solution.
Thanks
It's possible that one of your plugins for VS2013 has been broken by the VS2015 installer. For example I had an issue where VS2015 installer also installed .NET Framework 4.6 which alters the .NET Framework 4.5.1 DLLs, I guess there's a chance it could be the same kind of thing...
Try running VS2013 in Safe Mode (i.e. without plugins). If this works fine then you know it's one of your plugins that is causing the issue, you should then use a process of elimination to determine which one is the culprit. If it doesn't work then you might want to reinstall VS2013.
Is there a way (or can anyone find a way) to import IronScheme into VS2010? I've already taken a look at this question, and I've done everything I could - I even edited the binary files involved to change the version numbers. My question: Does anyone have a solution for getting IronScheme installed into VisualStudio 2010? at present, following the directions to install it into VS2008 does not work for VS2010. Thanks in advance :)
Update 1: I suppose I should post the error I get when I try to follow the directions for installing it via commandline:
C:\Program Files\IronScheme>RegPkg.exe /codebase "C:\Program Files\IronScheme\IronScheme.VisualStudio.dll"
After I run that, I get a Windows 7 popup error:
RegPkg.exe Has Stopped Working - Windows is checking for a solution to
the problem...
When I click out of that, it gives me this error on the console:
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.9.0, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.9.0, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.RegPkg.Main(String[] arguments)
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
I wrote the VS2008 plugin.
When VS2010, the whole API changed again, and if you have ever been in the VS SDK API, you will know it is a maze. I just did not feel like the effort again.
I have a bunch of great ideas but for the life of me I cannot even figure the simple stuff out.
If someone want to actually port my code from VS2008, I would appreciate it. It should not be too hard if you are a bit more familiar with the API than I am.
The source code for the VS2008 plugin is not currently available for the public. Please let me know if anyone is serious about so I can create a github (or similar) repo for it.
Update:
Created a github repo. The code is not the same as the existing DLL I distribute; it contains various half working ideas I was trying.
Update 2:
Here you go :) Very basic, but works on VS2010 and VS11 (should work on Express versions too). Source is in the vs11 branch of above mentioned github repo. It is just a subset of what the VS2008 plugin does as some features seem to be broken or have broken due to bit rot.
Update 3:
Seems the VS2010 plugin fails if only VS2010 is installed. Will have to investigate. Works fine if both VS2010 and VS11 is installed. FIXED :)
I have started rewriting a new plugin.
You can see the github repo for more details:
https://github.com/leppie/IronScheme.VisualStudio2
There is also a download available to try out :)
I'm having all kinds of problems getting Visual Studio 2010 to work with the Windows Phone 7 templates. All I have is a default portrait view added to the project, and the designer gives me the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Phone, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=24eec0d8c86cda1e' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
followed by a bunch of crap that doesn't seem too helpful. If I rebuild the project and refresh the designer, it momentarily appears correctly (less than a second), and then Visual Studio crashes and tries to restart.
Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
Well, sounds like the install didn't go well. Verify that this reference assembly is located where it is supposed to be, the default install location is c:\program files\reference assemblies\microsoft\framework\silverlight\v4.0\profile\windowsphone. Randomly retrying to reinstall might pay off but do check your machine health first, this doesn't go wrong very often. Ask questions about that at superuser.com