The local help in Visual Studio 2005 never comes back with anything. Also, if I'm not connected to the Internet, of course I get nothing. When I run dexplore eventually it takes 100% of cpu. Also, the F1 help doesn't work (of course). I've repaired both VS 2005, MSDN in other orders.
Any help will be appreciated!
THanks
-tim
Is this something that has always been an issue or just recently? You may have to uninstall and reinstall VS. You could work on this problem for hours but this may be your fastest option.
There's a setting in VS to use local help at Tools > Options > Help > Online (at least in VS2008).
Also, you might have a problem with one of the help packages installed. Microsoft has a tool, Namespace Sharp, that will help you check and repair your help system.
I installed the Local Help, but it did not appear until I quit VS 2010, and then from Task Manager, performed an "End process tree" on HelpLibAgent.exe. Then all the downloaded local help finally appeared.
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Everytime I try to run my code, I am having this error that "Csc.exe" exited with code -1073741819
, I cleaned my solution and restarted Visual Studio with no gain.
Can anyone help me?
I faced same problem. Delete the bin and obj folder in project(s). The try to clean and rebuild the solution. This worked for me.
Cleaning and rebuilding the solution will sometimes solve the issue and sometimes won't.
You need to repair Visual Studio. Go to Control Panel -> Programs. Then select your version of Visual Studio you are using and press "Change"(or right click it and press "Change"). When the setup appears, click "Repair".
This solved it for me and several others who have been facing this issue.
For the problem csc-exe-exited-with-code-1073741819
I repaired Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86). This worked for me.repair Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable. I found about this problem when uninstalling and then reinstalling VS2015. After the setup is completed it says that some items are not installed correctly. And among them is Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 not installed correctly.
So after a while I repaired Visual C++ Redistributable 2015. Here is the link Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.
classic ms solution: restart computer :D
delete bin and obj folders
open vs
build
it should work.
I want to share my experience here because I had this problem for several days (with VS Studio 2012) and I had MANY MANY difficulties to find the solution !
And my problem was... That I had a virus/malware problem, and the faulty module was BITGUARD !
So if someone has this problem, and goes here searching the solution, I think you must try any free Malware remover program to see if Bitguard should not be your problem !
Regards,
Olivier.
I also had this problem, and luckily found a solution.
First off is more of a workaround, but seemed to work. Disable parallel build in Visual Studio
(Tools -> Options ->Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run. Change maximum number of parallel builds to 1).
This resolved the issue for me, but did not solve the problem.
The issue I had, as obscure as it is, was I had Razer Synapse set up to record mouse and keyboard stats on Visual Studio. Once I disabled this, everything worked perfectly.
When our company changed anti-virus software, an application that had not been touched in months suddenly started having the build error
"csc.exe" exited with code -532462766..
I used our new AV client to scan the bin folder of the application that wouldn't build. The AV client claimed it was infected with W32.Trojan.Genkd. Uninstalling that AV software allowed it to build as usual. I think a single file got quarantined, preventing the build.
Your options may be these:
disinfect the files (assuming it's an actual infection)
unquarantine the "infected" files (assuming it's actually safe)
uninstall / disable that AV client
change AV software
Lastly, you could always comment blocks of code to identify what is causing the false-positive.
I got this error when running from the devenv command. Adding /SafeMode to the command arguments solved my issue which lead me to think one of my install extension/plugins for VS2015 was to blame.
I Resolved the same issue by Restarting my PC and that's it.
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.
When I open a aspx page, it crashes. Doesn't happen when I'm on SAFE MODE. It seems to be connected to Visual SVN. I'm also using Telerik, but telerik seems to work fine.
Clearly, this is a unique problem to your environment and difficult to troubleshoot with light details. I'd obviously recommend trying to uninstall the Visual SVN plug-in and see if that impacts VS stability. If VS stability improves, problem solved; if not, keep removing/uninstalling VS plug-ins to trace the issue.
If you ultimately still have issues with all plug-ins removed, a repair install of VS 2008 may help.
Sorry this help isn't more targeted. Try some trouble hunting and let us know if we can help further.
Loading Help or clicking F1 in Visual Studio is horribly slow to load and has been on ever PC I have installed it on. Is there any optimizations that can be employed to ease this pain?
This is not the same question as Visual Studio Optimizations I am just trying to solve the problem with help loading.
Visual Studio (at least 2005 and 2008) defaults to searching online help before local help.
Did you install help locally when you installed Visual Studio? If you did, is it configured to search local help before searching online help?
FYI, in VS2005 and VS2008 the settings are located in Tools | Options | Environment | Help | Online.
It is Microsoft's way of reminding you of Benjamin Franklin's famous quote:
“He that can have Patience, can have what he will.”
... as in this case, Help.
Please refer to: Some pointers on increasing VS speed.
EDIT: after re-reading the question I see you were looking for speeding up HELP, not the IDE in general.
I've had a serious issue with my Visual Studio 2008 setup. I receive the ever-so-useful error 'A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.' whenever I try to uninstall, reinstall or repair Visual Studio 2008 (team system version). If I can't resolve this issue I have no choice but to completely wipe my computer and start again which will take all day long! I've recently received very strange errors when trying to build projects regarding components running out of memory (despite having ~2gb physical memory free at the time) which has rendered my current VS install useless.
Note I installed VS2005 shell version using the vs_setup.msi file in the SQL Server folder after I had installed VS2008, in order to gain access to the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services designer in Business Intelligence Development Studio (this is inexplicably unavailable in VS2008).
Does anyone have any solutions to this problem?
P.S.: I know this isn't directly related to programming, however I feel this is appropriate to SO as it is directly related to my ability to program at all!
Note: A colleague found a solution to this problem, hopefully this should help others with this problem.
A colleague found this MS auto-uninstall tool which has successfully uninstalled VS2008 for me and saved me hours of work!!
Hopefully this might be useful to others. Doesn't speak highly of MS's faith in their usual VS maintenance tools that they have to provide this as well!
I had the same error message. For me it was happening because I was trying to run the installer from the DVD rather than running the installer from Add/Remove programs.
In my case, uninstalling from Add&Remove Programs didn't work. Instead, the problem was due to a recently hotfix installed through automatic updates. The hotfix to VS 2008 (in my case) has the number KB952241, so I uninstalled it using Add/Remove Programs checking on the show updates option. After it was unistalled the problem was gone.
I encountered the same problem and found a very easy solution.Go to the following Link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/bb968856.aspx
and run VS AutoUninstall tool .This will automatically remove all the components of VS 2008.
Cheers
Sure enough, for me, it was the hotfixes. In Add/Remove Programs, check the "Show Updates" box, and remove ALL of the Hotfixes associated with your version of VS2008. Then try the "Change/Remove" button - it should now proceed without a hitch.
Well, it did for me, anyway... ;-)
I have Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition, and had to remove all updates and Hotfixes:
Update KB972221
Hotfix KB973674
Hotfix KB971091
Reboot, then the following Hotfix appeared, which I then removed as per #riaraos' answer:
Hotfix KB952241
Before the Change/Remove would work!
Hope that helps someone else.
Uninstall hotfixes installed in related to vs2008 and then try again.
It worked for me and hopefully it will for you as well.
Thanks,
Zelalem
Remove the following hot fixes and updates
Update KB972221
Hotfix KB973674
Hotfix KB971091
Restart the PC and try to uninstall now. This worked for me without problems.
Microsoft itself posted a KB article about this, and that article has a service pack that they claim fixes the problem. See below.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959417/
It took a while for the associated update to install itself, but once it did, I was able to run the Visual Studio setup successfully from the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
You should look for the MSI setup logs in the temp directory of your system. They will contain detailed inforamtion about why the setup failed.
I had a similar installation problem with Visual Studio 2008 which I was able to resolve by studying the logs.
I think this sort of question is entirely appropriate to the forum, especially if an easy solution can be found, as would save others hours of pain.
Unfortunately I dont have the solution, but would suggest (if you haven't already)
Run FileMon to see if the
installer is looking for specific
files which are no longer there -
this may give some clues.
Painful, but try uninstalling other apps based upon the VS shell (eg 2005) first.
Thanks, riaraos, uninstalling KB952241 was the solution for me, too. Before doing that I tried to run the installer from "Programs and Features" and from the installation DVD without success. I did not want to completely remove the VS 2008 installation but only add a few components.
Notes on my system:
Windows 7 Beta 1
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Okay I had the same issues first my VS2008 was acting up so i tried to uninstall it and it didn't work...I read online that using an AutoUninstall by MS will do the trick it did just that , but left a lot of nasty files behind..
So i used "Windows Install Clean Up" and cleaned up more stuff that had to do with VS..
then went back into Add and remove in control panel Removed the KB952241...
then opened up Ccleaner and scanned the registry found a lot of left behind crap from VB2008 removed all that once that was done.
I went ahead and launch the installed back from the CD again and BAM its working.
I did all this without having to restart my PC..
Hope this helps people who are stuck..like i was
In my case, installing visual studio SP1 unbroke the uninstall/repair functionality.
Windows 7 suggested to "Uninstall using recommended settings" after hitting OK in the error message. It solved the problem.
Solution to this is
http://www.dotnetzone.gr/cs/forums/48758/ShowThread.aspx#48758