Visual Studio 2008

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

nbritt58 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:22:38 GMT

Hi Mikhail

I've been having the same problem with VS 2008 Development edition. I'm unable to view any web page in design view. I've tried just about everything suggested so far - removing/re-installing the web authoring component, removing my version of MS Office (2000), re-installing VS 2008 (twice), installed SP1. I've made a crash dump as you sugggested (extract below). It looks like VS is trying to load FPEDITAX.DLL when I click on "split" view in the designer, but then unloads because "Unable to resolve storage root for assembly directory..."

This problem has got me completely confused. Do you have any suggestion for what I can do next?

Thanks

Nicholas

'devenv.exe': Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD\FPEDITAX.DLL'
SXS: Unable to resolve storage root for assembly directory x86_microsoft.vc80.mfc_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_none_0c178a139ee2a7ed in 2 tries
SXS: RtlGetAssemblyStorageRoot() unable to resolve storage map entry. Status = 0xc0150004
'devenv.exe': Unloaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD\FPEDITAX.DLL'
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x15c0) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
'devenv.exe': Unloaded 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSEnv\VSFileHandler.dll'

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

mathmax — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:31:34 GMT

That doesn't solve the problem.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

pkellner — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:59:24 GMT

I would try:

Tools / Import and Export Settings Wizard / Reset all settings.

That usually works for me.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

mathmax — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:49:02 GMT

Hello,

I've just installed visual studio 2008 Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM and have a bug hadn't with orcas beta 2. There is no items in the toolbox when editing a windows Form. I try to repair Visual Studio but the problem remains the same. Does anybody knows how to correct it ?

Regards,

mathmax

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:40 GMT

Office 2000 may be the issue actually. In this thread http://forums.asp.net/t/1194475.aspx user has similar problem with Office XP. Perhaps something in early versions of Office conflicts with the designer.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:29:34 GMT

The standard build for a workstation at my office is still using Microsoft Office 2000. A few months back they deployed a company wide script that upgraded Microsoft Access to 2003 and I think they also upgraded Mircosoft Front Page to 2003. In my Add/Remove programs it shows that I have Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Disc 2, MircosoftOffice 2000 SR-1 Professional and Mircosoft Office Professional Editon 2003. I also have something called Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components installed as well.

I think with the different versions of office installed on my workstation was be causing some sort of conflcit with VS 2008.

But, everything is working great now.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:27:25 GMT

It is interesting case, there is probably something else going on here. We tried installing Office 2003 with FP 2003 and then VS 2008 and it worked. I actually realized that on my home machine I have FP 2003 + Office 2007 (upgraded from 2003) + VS 2005 + VS 2008 and all applications appear to work normally.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:48:58 GMT

Front Page 2003 was installed on my machine during the duration of installing and repairing VS 2008 and the Visual Studio Web Authoring Componment. It looks like it has been on my workstation for quite sometime, it was used by our development team to support classic asp pages. But I never used it because I did not support any classic asp pages.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:33:26 GMT

Great!

Can you tell me if you had FP installed before or did you install (or repair) in after installing VS 2008? Designer components version is 12.0.4518.1066 - I guess there is a typo in your last post :-)

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:12:56 GMT

I have solved my issue with the help of Mikhail with not being able to view aspx pages in design view and not being able to use the spilt feature in VS 2008.

It looks like VS 2008 was conflicting with Mircosoft Front Page 2003. The HTML designer in 2008 uses the fpcutl.dll file version (12.0.4518.1006) but it was loading version (11.0.6551.0) when I tried to view an aspx in design view. Mikhail confirmed the verison with the visual studio debug file dump I created for him. I uninstalled Mircosoft Front Page 2003 from my workstation and was able to use design view and spilt view in VS 2008.

So, if you do not want to go through the headache I experienced, make sure you install Front Page 2003 before you install VS 2008.

Mikhail - Thanks for taking the time researching my issue. You are the man!!!!!!

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:15 GMT

I have been working with Mikhail behind the scenes and looks like he might of narrowed it down to the Microsoft office related components that are installed on my workstation. Unfornuately, the standard build for a workstation at my employer uses components from Office 2000 and Office 2003.

So it looks like is not issue related to different versions of Visual Studio installed on the same Windows XP workstation.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

odujosh — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:14:20 GMT

This is not a issue with VS03/05/08 coexisting on an XP machine. I have been running all three and using the designer happily since RTM. (I am a web developer so use the designer a lot) Interesting to hear the MSO assembly dependency. Learn something new every day.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:16:44 GMT

I sent the crash dump to the requested e-mail. Thanks for looking further into this issue.

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:46:46 GMT

Can you obtain a crash dump as described here http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/07/25/678308.aspx and e-mail it to me to mikhaila-at-microsoft-dot-com? If it hangs, here is another entry: http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/09/19/how-to-obtain-debug-information-from-a-hang-frozen-application/

Re: Problems with VS 2008 Professioanl RTM

Michael Kniskern — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:35:50 GMT

Mikhail - I have just uninstalled the Visual Studio Web Authoring component and and re-installed it using the \WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.exe file on the installation DVD. I tried to view an aspx page in design view and it crashed.

But, the following warning did show up in my application event log:

Source: Visual Studio - VsTemplate

Event ID :

Description:

One or more Visual Studio templates do not match any installed project packages.

Also, the following MsiInstaller entries appeared as information in my application event log. Both as removed sucessfully and installed successfully

Microsoft Office Shared MUI (English) 2007, Microsoft Office Shared Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007, Microsoft Office Visual Web Developer MUI (English) 2007, Mircosoft Office Visual Web Developer 2007