Visual Studio crashes, faulting module msvcr80.dll - visual-studio

I'm trying to compile WebKit on Windows XP. I've followed to the letter the installation instructions for all the recommended development tools. The WebKit project suggests debugging using Visual-Studio 2005.
Whenever I open the WebKit project in VS2005 (express), however, VS always crashes shortly afterward. This is before I try to run any of the WebKit code, so I think the problem is with VS2005, and not with WebKit.
The error log says this:
Faulting application vcexpress.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, faulting
module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.6195, fault address 0x00008aa0.
So it looks like the problem is with msvcr80.dll.
I'm not very experienced with windows. Does anyone know how to investigate the cause of this crash and fix it?
Many, many thanks,
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* UPDATE *
In the end I couldn't get VS2005 to stop crashing, so I switched to Visual Studio 2008 Express. WebKit.org doesn't give instructions for building with VS2008, but I found some on this blog. These mostly worked, though I had to make two small changes.
Currently, if no standard editions Visual Studio can be found (not 'Express'), the build scripts are hard-coded to use VS Express 2005. To use VS Express 2008 instead, I changed line 1419 of /Tools/Scripts/webkitdirs.pm from this:
$vsInstallDir = File::Spec->catdir($programFilesPath, "Microsoft Visual Studio 8");
to this:
$vsInstallDir = File::Spec->catdir($programFilesPath, "Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0");
(Carefully not to confuse the years of release --2005, 2008-- with the versions -- 8,9.0)
I also had to work around a bug related to error logging. In line 60 of /Tools/Scripts/print-vse-error-logs I changed "scm.find_checkout_root()" to the path to my source directory "C:/cygwin//Webkit/Source".
I hope this helps someone!

Do you have the lastest service pack installed on both XP and Visual Studio 2005? if not (How to obtain the latest Visual Studio 2005 service pack). If that doesn't fix it, trying doing the same thing with Visual Studio 2010 (SP1), for it may have been fixed since then and you could be running into known issues which have since been resolved.
HTH

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Target Framework not installed when opening a Unity project with Visual Studio 2022

I am trying to open a C# solution that has been generated from a Unity v2020.3.19f project with Visual Studio 2022. Opening it with Visual Studio 2019 works just fine, but there are reasons I'd like to be able to open it with v2022 (such as GitHub Copilot). I did not have issues with this on my previous install of Windows 10.
Upon opening the solution in VS2022, I get the following pop-up prompt for every project in the solution:
Choosing the first option updates the target project to .NET Framework 4.8 and loads the project, but the whole file appears with red lines. When hovering over an underlined bool Property, the error shows as: `CS0518: Predefined type 'System.Boolean' is not defined or imported.
Choosing the second option opens this URL in my browser, prompting me to install .NET Framework 4.7.1 targeting pack (which was already installed via the Visual Studio Installer). When I try to install the .NET Framework 4.7.1 runtime, the installer responds with .NET Framework 4.7.1 or a later update is already installed on this computer. When I try to install the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack, the installer allows me to choose from "Repair", "Uninstall", or "Cancel". Repairing has no effect.
I installed both versions of Visual Studio (2019 & 2022) the usual way through the Visual Studio Installer, along with the "Game Development with Unity" workload, which tells me it's installed all dependencies just fine:
Here's what I've tried so far:
Uninstall & reinstall all versions of Visual Studio through the Visual Studio Installer
Uninstall & reinstall Unity, with the Visual Studio module installed through Unity Hub (which just opens the Visual Studio Installer for me to choose which version I want to install)
Regenerate project files through the Unity Editor
Uninstall any references to .NET Framework through the Control Panel
Try reinstalling .NET Framework targeting pack 4.7.1 either from the Visual Studio Installer or manually through the Microsoft SDK website from the prompt
Nothing works for me. Any help on how to make VS2022 stop complaining is greatly appreciated.
Update 1: I found a couple of threads where people suggested simply pressing the Regenerate project files button in "Edit -> Preferences -> External Tools`. This has not helped me.
Update 2: I've tried everything I can possibly imagine, in different orders and different combinations. I even reinstalled Windows 10 to no avail. It's like Visual Studio just doesn't want to accept that the .NET Framework 4.7.1 targeting pack is installed. Please help :(
check this
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/733018/visual-studio-2022-cannot-locate-installed-net-fra.html
If you modified the value of ProgramFilesDir(x86), just to modify it back to C:\ProgramFiles(x86) can solve the problem
That is a very interesting problem, my main solution for you to first try is to make sure you are even targeting the correct .net framework in UNITY before you even build the solution. You are using the .NET 4.x, you need to go into your configuration settings and player settings in unity and ensure its not on a different version, for me, unity still defaults to .net standard 2.0. Follow the steps located here. To do so.
Another solution is to see if that first option actually gives you errors that prevent you from using unity, because I know that Visual Studio Code has problems occasionally where it tells me im wrong, my program is wrong, every life choice I have made was poor and I am poor, yet in unity, there are no errors showing in the console and I can hit play no problem. In that case I just had to rebuild a few times and fiddle with vs code until omnisharp stopped yelling at me.
Apperently I have been in a similar situation as when you were getting the error "Predefined type 'System.Object' is not defined or imported" because looking into it, I already have clicked on some of the links, try this one if that error persists. If you cannot prevent the errors to begin with, I would recommend you trying to fix the upgraded version from option one as that is more than likely going to get you the closest to a solution.

the service microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.iselectioncontainer already exists in the service container

I recently installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate version on my machine. I'm just trying to create a sample windows form project and trying to open the designer / form by double clicking on Form1.cs and I'm getting this weird error message:
"the service microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.iselectioncontainer already exists in the service container"
My system is already having Visual Studio 2010 which is working smoothly from a long time. I then installed Visual Studio 2012 which was giving the same problem as above. So I went ahead with installing VS 2013 hoping that I might be able to get rid of this issue, but no use.
Once I click OK on the error windows, I can see the following "message" in the bottom Error List window:
"The file 'C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\WebSite1\WindowsFormsApplication1\Form1.cs' does not support code parsing or generation because it is not contained within a project that supports code."
I have spent 2-3 days searching various blogs like these, all of which talk about previous version of Visual Studio like VS 2005 / VS 2008:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/311949/the-service-microsoft-visualstudio-shell-interop-iselectioncontainer-already-exists-in-the-service-container
Form inheritance in Visual Studio 2008 doesn't work
I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS 2013, again no use.
It would be really great if someone can help me out in fixing this.
I've just had the exact same error message.
After compiling the solution(F6 or Build->Build Solution) it worked fine for me.
To deal with your issue, please first make sure that you installed latest updates on your Windows 8 machine, and then repair VS2013.
During your repairing process, please temporally turn off your anti-virus/antispyware software and repair VS2013 with the Administrator privilege.
follow this link
The problem got resolved finally, after so many days and various frustrating tries to resolve the issue. I should thank Tim Atkins from Microsoft for helping me with resolving this issue.
Fix: When we tried 'gacutil /l system.design', we found that there were 3 variants of system.design; One from .Net 2.0 targetting MSIL, second from .Net 4.0 targetting x86 and last one also from .Net 4.0, but targetting MSIL.
On a working machine, there were only 2 entries, the .Net 4.0 one targetting x86 wasn't there. Hence we uninstalled this version using gacutil which did the magic. I was so relieved seeing the win forms popping up without any errors anymore :)
I changed the target framework from 4.5 to 4.6.1 and it fixed it for me. My assumption is sometimes when you change target framework back and forth and the process does not go through all the way (cancelling in the middle of changing it) - something happens that leads to this error. Hope that helps
I solved this be closing VS, deleting contents of the .vs folder where my solution is, restarting VS and recompiling.
Seems like one of those file/settings/caching problems that pop up now and then, might be after switching source branch.
VS2019, .net fw 4.6.2.
If your C drive (Where you are installing Visual Studio) does not have enough space, try moving some files from the C drive to another drives.

Visual studio closes when debugging (after install update 2)

I just installed the visual studio update 2 on two computers and now when I try to debug my program, the visual studio closes!!
It doesn't show any exception, just closes.
What should I do? I tried to reinstall the visual studio and install again but I got the same problem.
According to Marc Paine (Visual Studio Debugger QA Lead):
You are using the Visual Web Devleoper version of VS, correct? If so, we have a known bug in this CTP only affecting VWD. You can copy symsvr.dll from any other install of VS (other express versions or pro) into the common7\ide directory for VWD. That should fix the problem. We have fixed this problem already and it should be avialable in the next CTP.
Unfortunately it doesn't worked for me... so I tell it in the support forum but Microsoft just marked my feedback as closed and didn't answer me anymore...
So unfortunately my solution was formatting my computer.
It's a CTP right now, which isn't really supposed to be stable; on the contrary - it has experimental features. So it shouldn't really surprise you that it crashes. Gather as much data as possible and send it to Microsoft; hopefully they'll fix it.

Visual Studio 2010 crashes repeatedly

I've been running Visual Studio 2010 (the official release) for some time now. Lately, VS will crash 10+ times during my 8 hour work day. In VS2008, crashes were common when working with large Xaml files, and while I experience some of that with VS2010, crashes occur when debugging, starting the debugger, stopping the debugger, and other random times when editing code.
I've looked through the problem reports, and the one I've found that occurs most frequently is:
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: devenv.exe
Application Version: 10.0.30319.1
Application Timestamp: 4ba1fab3
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdb3b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0002e23e
I'm running Windows 7 (x64). Hoepfully someone has come across this problem and has found a solution. I plan on reinstalling VS2010. Hopefully that takes care of the problem.
Do you think you have installed any extra Extensions which might lead to frequent crashes?
You can try
Devenv.exe /SafeMode
to start in Safe mode. You can also try
Devenv.exe /Log
Which will log all activity. Have not tried this so don't know What activities are logged.
Visual Studio 2010 Command Line Switches
I was having a similar problem and this helped me
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/618802/visual-studio-random-frequent-crash
Running this from the command prompt seemed to fix it. It hasn't crashed for the whole day today.
regsvr32 c:\Windows\System32\ole32.dll
I had similar issues with Visual Studio. The problem was the service pack which for some reason was not installed properly.
I had to reapply the SP1 using the Repair / reapply option. This kind of fixed my issue.
Also make sure to reboot the system.
Just to help people who search it: It was webex instant messenger related part, but not Cisco itself. The cause was a component in Studio Power Tools relevant to integration with messenger. Reinstall power tools but without messaging integration.
In other occasion it is almost always a corporate antivirus authentication helper thing. It required to manually remove registry entries which cause background TFS logins break the studio at random moments.
I had the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has stopped working" error, imediately when Visual Studio 2010 was starting. Fault module was clr.dll in my case. Only rebooting helped sometimes.
I solved it by removing .NET completely and reinstalling it.
Be aware that if you updated to .NET 4.5 this includes .NET 4, so you have to remove and reinstall .NET 4.5
I know why it could be crashing. Code it self. Have you tried to debug the failed instance of VS2010 with Vs2010? If the xaml designer crashed anywhere in your code you should be able to see the stack trace. Also, try to load the same xaml into Blend 4 and then run the vs2010 on Blend when that crashes. I've had some good results debugging Vs2010 crashes like that.
There are so many things that can cause studio to crash.
I'd look at everything from video card drivers to whether the RAM is stable.
Note, there is a microsoft connect but on this exact issue at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/634162/devenv-exe-frequent-intermittent-crashes-fault-module-name-ntdll-dll
You might vote on it or add your own information to the report but the very first thing I'd do is update my video drivers. One place I was at had a lot of issues with 2005; it would randomly crash just displaying the design surface or when opening a few too many code files; but once we got decent video cards and the appropriate drivers installed it worked flawlessly.
I disabled “Options"-"Evnironment"-"Add-in/Micros Security"->"Allow macros to run", and fixed the problem.
I think I just solved a similar issue on my computer, but probably not the same cause. It was related to TortoiseSVN (I think visual loads the tortoise DLL because it is integrated with the explorer, even if I don't have a specific visual studio plug-in). I upgraded TortoiseSVN (from 1.7.8 to 1.7.11) and it didn't crash for a few hours (I also had a 100% repro case when closing visual studio which does not happen anymore). Maybe there is some way to check what DLLs are loaded by visual studio to troubleshoot what are the candidates for upgrading/uninstalling, but I didn't go this far.
Hope it can help someone else.
While developing C++ code, Visual Studio 2010 started crashing frequently and at random times after I enabled the Task List.
As an alternative to using the Task List, I am now simply using the Find in Files tool (Ctrl+Shift+F) and searching for the string TODO as an alternative.
i was having a similar problem. visual studio 2010 was crashing. when i attached, it said it had a read access violation in ntdll.dll
closed all my open instances (there were 5) and it stopped happening.
Today I had this error, in my case it was because Microsoft released the update (KB2858725) the FrameWork 4.5.1, which the download and installed,
However this is definitely addressed by performing the following steps:
FrameWork 4.5.1 download (KB2858728) => NDP451-KB2858728-x86-x64-ENU.exe-Allos
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40779
Install the downloaded software (KB2858728)
Try Vs, but give the same error.
Uninstall the downloaded software (KB2858728)
(this task fully cleaned upgrade giving problems (KB2858725)
Install the downloaded software (KB2858728) again
Try Vs, this time if it will work
NOTE: NEVER! install update (KB2858725)
Logging helps indeed. I have the same problem with crashes. Since there could be numerous reasons and lots of log data, I wrote this .bat (Win7 x64, VS2010 Express) to keep logs organized and easy to analyze:
#echo off
rem date and time in format YYYYMonDD_hhmmss
set year=%DATE:~-4%
set month=%DATE:~3,2%
set day=%DATE:~0,2%
IF %month%==01 set monthstr=Jan
IF %month%==02 set monthstr=Feb
IF %month%==03 set monthstr=Mar
IF %month%==04 set monthstr=Apr
IF %month%==05 set monthstr=May
IF %month%==06 set monthstr=Jun
IF %month%==07 set monthstr=Jul
IF %month%==08 set monthstr=Aug
IF %month%==09 set monthstr=Sep
IF %month%==10 set monthstr=Oct
IF %month%==11 set monthstr=Nov
IF %month%==12 set monthstr=Dec
set now=%TIME:~0,-3%
set now=%now::=%
set now=%now: =0%
set now=%year%%monthstr%%day%_%now%
start "VS2010 express" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VCExpress.exe" /Log "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VSlogs\VS_log_%now%.txt"
I had the same problem. I cleared my settings. Configured environment to use C# development settings. Then i disabled all extensions against which disable button was present. I enabled them one by one while opening, running and closing solutions. I found the offending extension to be .Net reflector v 8.5.0.179 by red gate. I had VS2010, VS2012 and VS2013 all installed on my windows 8.1 enterprise 64bit. All of them had the same issue. Whenever i closed the solution VS would crash. Hope it helps.

BootstrapPackage did not load correctly VS 2010

I just installed VS 2010 v 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel on 64bit Win7 Ultimate and keep receiving the following error when I try to open a web project. I have repaired and reinstall but the issue persists. I am looking for resolution suggestions. Thanks
The 'Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage.BootstrapPackage, Microsoft.Data.Design.BootstrapPackager, Version 10.0.0.0.... did not load correctly.
This was happening to me as well. In my case I installed Visual Studio on my D drive which is not my system drive. After reading a link found in ChiliYago's blog post I found that the root cause was that files were missing from %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE (Which is what the error message says).
In my case, the missing files were installed in C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE and not D:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE. My solution was to copy the missing .dlls from the install directory on the C drive to the install directory on the D drive, and the error stopped happening.
I had previously installed an Express edition of C# and un-installed it before adding Visual Studio 2010, this may have contributed to the problem for me.
In my case, I Installed Entity Framework June 2011 and then uninstalled it. After this I had this problem.
Nothing found in internet worked and when I was going to format I found in the directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\ these 2 files:
Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage.pkgdef
Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package.pkgdef
Here is when VS 2010 is trying to load the library that cannot load.
I have another PC with Entity Framework 4.0, and it doesnt have these files, so I have moved them out to the desktop. Now Visual Studio is loading the project succesfully.
On the other hand, my problem also was that If I choose to hide the error message then Entity Framework 4.0 didn't create the .Designer.cs of the Model. then when I tried to add the Domain Service Class to the project, the context class didnt appear (but yes in another machine with the same project and same database).
Now that I have not the error message everything looks working good.
I hope it helps others because I have had this problem during weeks.
Best Regards,
Tried the uninstall and reinstall of Visual Studio 2010… Still that had the damn annoying message about the Missing Assembly.
Looked on the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ Directory which only showed:
Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.DLL
Installed a LOT of Windows Server 2008 files (32 Bit OS) in regards to SQL Server 2008… ADO.Net, etc… STILL didn’t solve the issue! GRRRRRRR!
So I finally fixed the issue by reading between the lines. See the details below on how I resolved this issue…
This points to the MISSING Assembly:
Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VisualStudio/10.0/Packages/{7A4E8D96-5D5B-4415-9FAB-D6DCC56F47FB}
Renamed Key to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VisualStudio/10.0/Packages/{7A4E8D96-5D5B-4415-9FAB-D6DCC56F47FB}-123
Problem Solved for now in Visual Studio 2010!
Hope this helps someone else resolve this issue!
I've managed to completely remove VS 2010 from my computer using official utility and then reinstall it. Problem disapeared.
From tools menu in VS2010 select Import and Export Settings...
Select the last option, reset settings.
Save them, why not :)
Select a canned default, such as Visual C#.
Post your differences here, so that you know what to re-enable, and Microsoft people know what needs to be fixed.
I've had same problem, i solved it by rapairing it from "Control Panlel" clicking "Change/Remove" and tan choosing "Repair". BTW i'm using Win XP but i think that uninstallers in Visual Studio are the same. So.. Good luck!

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