Like a million other .NET developers I rushed to download the Visual Studio 2010 release and installed it on my machine. I hope I’m the only one that finds it’s seriously broken when trying to work with a Windows Forms project.
All I have to do is the following…
1, Startup VS2010
2, File -> New -> Project ->
3, Select C# -> Windows Forms Project template
4, Press F5 to compile and run
And then wait forever because after compiling it never runs the application. It makes no difference if I select the .NET Framework 4.0 or 2.0 or any of the others. They fail all the same. It makes no difference if you run as administrator or indeed any other setting I can think of. It’s just plain broken.
I sometimes also get the following error…
Now I find it hard to believe that something so basic would be broken so I must assume it is the setup of my machine helping to expose the problem. I have Windows 7 Professional 64bit with VS2005, VS2008 and now VS2010 all working side by side. Is anyone else using a similar setup and finding it does or does not work with the above steps?
April 14th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Phil, I have never seen this. I have been using VS 2010 Beta1/2, RC and now RTM side by side with VS 2008 SP1 on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit without seeing this kind of a problem. (Mind you, I have not used VS 2005.) Did you see it during the beta? Does the event log show any additional info regarding the ( I presume .NET runtime) crash? Have you reported it to the VS Connect site? They are very responsive with replying on bug submissions.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Hi,
So far so good with VS 2010 Ultimate. I use Windows 7 Ultimate x86 with IIS 7.5 installed, SQL Server 2008 and VS 2008 and everything works well. No crashes no nothing. It even saw the Krypton components and added them to the toolbox.
So something is wrong on your machine (addons for VS – if VS 2010 saw the Kytpton Suite w/o install maybe it sees other tools and one of them crashes).
April 14th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Hi there,
I have the exact same setup and it works fine for me following your steps. Windows7 64-Bit Pro, with VS2005,2008 and 2010. I did have RC installed but uninstalled prior to 2010.
The only issue I have encountered is relating to the LICX files and that I have had to remove the contents of them.
Cheers,
Simon.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Haven’t seen this issue but I have other issues. One annoying issue is, that VS seems to lock some assembly when opening the design view preventing me from recompile. Very annoying since I always have to restart VS to compile.
cheers
April 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Not seen any issue on 2010. WinForms project working fine. In fact since upgrading I’ve yet to encounter a single issue.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
If I were you, the first I will do is to open a support case via http://support.microsoft.com
Regards,
April 14th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I have the same configuration as you : Windows 7 Professional 64bit with VS2005, VS2008 and now VS2010. I never use VS2010 beta. I installed VS2010 version Pro, a few hours ago. Until now, I have no problem and before reading your blog, I thought that it is the first time I installed a VS version without problem.
April 15th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I’m running the x86 trial version. I uninstalled the beta and v2008 versions. all is good.
April 15th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
No repro here, works fine. Try this – create a new, temporary user account and log in with it and see if this fresh user profile has the same issues.