Okay….
I’ve been running Visual Studio RTM since it’s release on my work computer. Last Friday I installed/Updated IE to version 9 to test a JavaScript issue. After installing IE9 and rebooting my computer Visual Studio 2012 no longer works, it opens shows the start page for about a second then crashes.
I’ve unsuccessfully tried the following:
- Revert to IE8 — still crashes
- Run devenv /SafeMode — still crashes
- Run devenv /ResetSettings — still crashes
- Repair VS2012 — still crashes
- Uninstall VS2012 completely and Reinstall — still crashes
- Uninstall VS2012 completely, removing all VS2012 folders and registry entries then reinstalling — still crashes
- (re)updating to IE9, uninstalling vs2012 and reinstalling — still crashes
(countless rebooting after each meticulous step)
P.S. I cannot run System Restore since that is “disabled by your administrator” – that would have been before step # 4 above if it was available to me…
When I run devenv (safemode or not) I get the following in the Application Event Log:
Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 11.0.50727.1, time stamp: 0x5011ecaa
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x00032582
Faulting process id: 0x1a6c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cda64fa375370b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: e2a67638-1242-11e2-b5d0-78acc0b17d3e
Also… I have the output from devenv /log if it will be useful, but it’s pretty much the same as what’s in the App Event Log (pasted above)
I’m running Windows 7 Professional x64
Finally… I’ve found similar issues from google, but none of the causes match mine, nor do any of the fixes resolve my issue. Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Previously found threads with similar issues:
- VS 2012 will not start
- Visual Studio 2012 RC has stopped wokring
- VS 2012 RTM Will Not Launch – Known Fixes Do Not Resolve
A few notes about these links:
- I was not using VS2012 Commands extension.
- I’m running Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RTM (not RC).
- I do not have Microsoft ACT 5.6 Data Collector in my add/remove programs.
I fixed the issue…
I noticed (when I went back to working in VS2010) that MSDeploy was no longer working. From this thread i re-registered the ieproxy.dll and magically VS2012 seems to open and load my projects now!
I guess something in the upgrade from IE8 to IE9 messed up this registration and caused all sorts of trouble. Running the following at the command line fixed it.