Visual Studio 2008

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

drweb — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:32:25 GMT

I'm using XP SP2, and I had the same problem until I removed power tools for VS2008.

Too bad, as I liked some of the power tools!

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

smayszak — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:02:39 GMT

I had uninstalled everything and still encountered the problem. I did find a resolution, although not very graceful.

I found a report stating there is a known issue with Native Image cache (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=8) and that the format of the image chache has changed in .net 3.5 sp1 (http://www.quequero.org/NET_Internals_and_Native_Compiling). There is a workaround posted in the first link that I tried against the dll that was causing me problems (VisualGridTree). Still no luck. After doing some research I concluded that the native image cache is more or less used for optimization and that it would cause no harm to empty it. I made a backup folder and removed all the folders from C:\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32 to my backup location. Problem solved.

I am doing a little head scratching now and waiting for the next problem to surface as a result of emptying the cache. Any criticisms to the workaround or speculations on negative impacts are welcome.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:41:39 GMT

Did you try uninstalling add-ons like PowerCommands or CodeRush?

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

smayszak — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:16:14 GMT

This bug is coming up across our entire development team. We have migrated our projects from 2005 (maybe related). Short history:

installed SP1 for vs2008 and error started to occur (.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506) )

At the time power tools and resharper were installed.

I uninstalled all 2008 related software and reinstalled visual studio 08 (only, no add ins). Error no longer repro'd. 4 days later........

I then ran an MSI (debug version) of a 2005 project. Now the bug is occuring again without SP 1 installed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Output from msiinv.exe:

C:\Documents and Settings\smayszak\Desktop\msiinv.exe 2008\09\23 16:10:47

NUnit 2.4.7
        Product code:   {2F481221-3D31-412D-96A9-5AFDD67E005D}
        Product state: (5) Installed.
        Package code:   {1EA60EFE-F72F-462E-8B88-8861F971CBB2}
        Version:        2.4.7
        AssignmentType: 0
        Publisher:      nunit.org
        Language:       1033
        Installed from: C:\Documents and Settings\smayszak\Desktop\
            Package:    NUnit-2.4.7-net-2.0.msi
        Local package: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\5dd180a.msi
        Install date:   2008\07\15

        5 features.
                0 features are not used.
                0 features are advertised.
                0 features are absent.
                5 features installed to run local.
                0 features installed to run from source.
                0 features installed for default.
                0 features in some other state.

OS:

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition

5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 3790

Visual Studio Info:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual C# 2008

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
Version 9.0.21022.8

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 91899-270-7233695-60064
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008

Crystal Reports AAJ60-G0MSA4K-68000CF
Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Web Deployment Projects 2008 00000
Microsoft Web Deployment Projects 2008
Version 9.0.21022

I believe this is the exception being thrown:

CLR:(C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.VisualStudio.VirtualTreeGrid\9.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.VirtualTreeGrid.dll) Rejecting native image because dependency C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Accessibility\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Accessibility.dll is not native

After that all threads terminate.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

johnBartak — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:31:45 GMT

As others on this thread have noted, uninstalling PowerCommands solves the problem. Downloading and installing the latest version of PowerCommands from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands makes the problem come back.

This is running on a fully patched version of Windows Server 2003.

VS2005 : Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600).

VS2008: 9.0.30729.1 SP

Microsoft.Net CompactFramework 1.0 SP3 Developer

Microsoft.Net Compact Framework 2.0 SP2

Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0 SP2

Microsoft.Net Framework 3.0 SP2

Microsoft.Net Framework 3.5 SP1

Microsoft ASP.Net MVC CodePlex Preview 5

Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Microsoft SIlverlight

Here are the installed products from VS2008 (from the about dialog):

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.30729.1 SP
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

Microsoft Visual C# 2008   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual C# 2008

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition

Portions of International CorrectSpell™ spelling correction system © 1993 by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

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Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008   91904-270-2689827-60617
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB944899)   KB944899
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB945282)   KB945282
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB946040)   KB946040
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB946308)   KB946308
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB946344)   KB946344
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB946581)   KB946581
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB947171)   KB947171
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB947173)   KB947173
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB947180)   KB947180
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB947540)   KB947540
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB947789)   KB947789
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB948127)   KB948127
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB952241)   KB952241
Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU (KB953256)   KB953256
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB945140)   KB945140
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB947888)   KB947888
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB948484)   KB948484

NDepend.AddIn
NDepend.Addin
http://www.NDepend.com
Copyright (c) 2004-2008 SMACCHIA.COM SARL

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 1.0
A set of power commands for Visual Studio 2008

TestDriven.NET 2.7.2111 Beta Personal
For more information, see the TestDriven.NET website at http://www.testdriven.net/. Development by Jamie Cansdale <jamie@mutantdesign.co.uk>. Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Mutant Design.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

dbranscombe — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:23:14 GMT

I posted earlier related to Power Tools. I just wanted to mention that I have sense come to the conclusion that my problem at least is not necessary related to PowerTools (although this could have been a problem and I don't have it installed anymore) but rather to a specific xaml file with a grid that has the following property:

Icon="pack://application:,,,/Resources/Application.ico"

This propety is related to using a TrayIcon for my App. WPF doesn't like this code, but you can usually comment it out and then reload without much ado. However, I periodically get the same behavior of VS totally closing without warning and logging the same error msg I previously quoated.

I have found the easy work around to this is to simply open the xaml in xaml editor, not the designer and save it (without making any changes.) For some reason, this alone will temp fix the issue until it surfaces again.

It seems to surface when I disconnect and reconnect to Team Server and then startup VS for the first time after being reconnected or sometimes disconnected in the first place.

Hope this help.

Dwight.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

carl.brochu — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:08:05 GMT

Can you post the versions of the following components :

All Visual Studio and SPs

The .Net framework components

Extensions installed

Do you have any sdk installed?

It looks like you are this WizardFrameworkVS component is dependant on a version of the .Net Framework that is not present on your system.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

CharlesJCooper — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:59:53 GMT

One strange thing here, your error occurred in VS 2008 but the version on Microsoft.WizardFrameworkVS shows that it is from VS 2005.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

johnBartak — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:08:06 GMT

Did you ever get the information you needed to reproduce this? I can reproduce it right now. I have PowerCommands installed and I did have the beta installed of Visual Studio on this machine.

I'm not sure how to get a crash dump for when it crashes, but I did run the Fusion Log Viewer (fuslogvw). It gave the following:

*** Assembly Binder Log Entry  (9/15/2008 @ 5:05:03 PM) ***

The operation failed.
Bind result: hr = 0x80070002. The system cannot find the file specified.

Assembly manager loaded from:  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll
Running under executable  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
--- A detailed error log follows. 

=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = ADS\bartakj
LOG: DisplayName = Microsoft.WizardFrameworkVS, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
 (Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/Documents and Settings/bartakj/My Documents/Visual Studio Projects/TaskList/TaskList/
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
LOG: Dynamic Base = NULL
LOG: Cache Base = NULL
LOG: AppName = 14df4b8d
Calling assembly : (Unknown).
===
LOG: This bind starts in default load context.
LOG: Using application configuration file: C:\Documents and Settings\bartakj\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\TaskList\TaskList\web.config
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config\machine.config.
LOG: Post-policy reference: Microsoft.WizardFrameworkVS, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
LOG: GAC Lookup was unsuccessful.
ERR: No codebases found to download from.
ERR: Unrecoverable error occurred during pre-download check (hr = 0x80070002).

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

CharlesJCooper — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:09:23 GMT

I had the same problem and uninstalling PowerCommands did work for me. It wasn't sp1 that broke it though, it was the silverlight extensions. I had used the dialog successfully before installing silverlight.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

dbranscombe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:26 GMT

No I did not install beta of sp1 or vs2008. I might have installed a vs2008 hot fix, not sure. Before removing power tools, I did run the sp1 prep tool and then reinstall sp1 (Yes I wasted another hour!) but obviously that did not help.

I'd love to try to help out and reproduce but honestly I don't have the time right now. Have you tried installing the december release of power tools in your attempt to recreate?

Dwight

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

carl.brochu — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:38:31 GMT

It seems you have similar problems related to .Net framework dependencies. Can you remember if you installed beta versions of SP1 or VS2008 on these machines?

Is there anyway you could produce a dump file when you see a VS crash?

Carl, VSX team

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

dbranscombe — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:16:09 GMT

I have the same problem with vs2008 sp1 where editing an xml closes vs with no warning. The event viewer show the error described above (.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2E0F92) (0))

I do not have powercommands but I did have Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools - December 2007 release. Removing fixed the problem. I also installed a newest verison of Power tools (July) and it seems to work.

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

anthtoonaing — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:46:03 GMT

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem. I installed Vs2008 SP1, with Infragastic Controls. I also installed PowerCommands, RockScroll and other Testing add-ins. After I unstalled Infragastic controls, it happens. I cannot add any tools to toolbox. While loading the tools list, VS2008 crash! I uninstall everything except PowerCommand (I forgot to uninstall.). But still crashing. After reading this post, I remember I have installed PowerCommands in my machine. After uninstalling PowerCommands, it works fine.

Thanks,

aNT

Re: HELP - vs2008 sp1 broke the toolbox !!

quanto — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:19:09 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm working with my QA team to try and repro this and we can't seem to repro this in house.

For those who ran into this problem, can you let us know which OS you were running and also what other VS related applications were installed? To get a list of MSIs installed, run msiinv.exe. You can get msiinv.exe from the Windows SDK. If you don't have the windows SDK, you can get the tool from here.

We're trying to repro this and narrow down the failure but can't get it to throw a package load failure or crash on our machines.

thanks.