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I have Win 7 Enterprise. If i open any .cs file on VS 2008/2010 it gives a message " Visual Studio has stopped working" on a dialog box. There are two buttons "Debug" and "close program". Debug button starts devenv in debug mode with assembly code as i do not have the pdb file for the same.

There is another machine with same configuration where the VS 2008/2010 Ultimate works fine. Even reinstalling Win 7 did not solve the problem. Any idea why it is happening?

shahjapan
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Amit
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  • duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2334005/visual-studio-registry-capture-utility-has-stopped-working-error-compiling-c-pr – shahjapan Aug 28 '10 at 03:58

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Try with some standard VS troubleshooting steps:

  • Clean the solution
  • Delete / rename all files in your solution created by VS, i.e. all .ncb, .suo, .user files
  • Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled: devenv.exe /SafeMode
  • Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings
  • Delete HKCU:\Software\Micosoft\VisualStudio\9.0 and then restart Visual Studio
  • Repair the Visual Studio installation through Add/Remove Programs
Dirk Vollmar
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  • I guess the solution file was the culprit. I took a latest .sln file from TFS and it worked fine. – Amit May 18 '10 at 10:50
  • mine (I think) was the layout, I had the solution explorer hover. thanks for this steps. – AceMark Dec 10 '12 at 08:40
  • "Reset All Settings" did the trick for me. And this was in VS2012, btw. – peirix Jun 13 '13 at 07:45
  • Your settings were reset, but there were some errors. Oh this is a lot of fun...... I will try to comment back with what worked ( my vs 2012 is working, it is vs 2013 not working seems like happened after I installed vs 2014 RTP 3 vnext ... – Tom Stickel Sep 17 '14 at 01:01
  • I did remove VS 2014 vnext (not sure if that caused the problem) and rebooted, but same problem. Add/Remove Programs - with VS 2013 - Change - Repair . That fixed it. Worth noting that I zipped the entire solution and it ran fine on another machine, thus for me it was not in the .suo, .sln files. thx – Tom Stickel Sep 17 '14 at 18:51
  • reset all settings worked for me as well, I've been having hell with this issue for the last month, thanks for the post. – Eliseo Jun 30 '15 at 06:54
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Recently I had the same problem, there is not much help on the Internet. So I thought this could be an easy fix. I re-install Visual Studio Several times but no luck. Finally, I uninstall .NET Framework along with Visual Studio, re-boot and re-install.

It worked fine !!

I thought it might help someone.

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VS 2012 Stopped Working

  • I couldn't open a project or create a new one without it crashing

  • I was getting this error...

    System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException was unhandled
  Message=No exports were found that match the constraint: 
    ContractName    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.Intellisense.IGlyphService
    RequiredTypeIdentity    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.Intellisense.IGlyphService
  InnerException:

However, as mentioned above this worked for me:

  • Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled:

    devenv.exe /SafeMode

  • Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings

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For me ... one of extension I installed earlier is the culprit. That extension is some sort of code reflector. That tool manage to slow down my debugging when i step forward. And make visual studio 2012 constantly crashing. So my advice is be careful what tools and extensions you install... especially those that are not created by Microsoft themselves.

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Hey i had the same problem some time back but was solved when i installed this patch fix.

Check it out here -
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26662.

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In my case the crash was caused by the parallel project builds. After went to Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run and set maximum number of parallel project builds to 1, the crash was gone.

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  1. There could be multiple issues even in the code if the call to an async method an awaiter is missing.
  2. If everything seems to correct from code-wise then clean the solution and delete all the obj and bin fill from all project. Start building the solution again. This worked multiple times in my scenario.
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