I installed StrataFrame trial this morning and now I am unable to launch Visual Studio. I launch VS 2005 and get the splash screen showing no installed products and then VS comes up and is immediatly closed.

I am running Visual Studio Team System and several add on components and was in VS 2005 this morning prior to the install of StrataFrame. I do get the following error in the application section of the event viewer:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506)

Does this happend repeatedly, or every other time you try to open Visual Studio?



Try uninstalling StrataFrame from the control panel and see if you can re-launch Visual Studio.



Additionally, could you list for me what add on components you have installed? It is possible we have a conflict with one of those. And what version of Visual Studio Team System are you using? Suite, Developer, Architect, Tester, etc...

Oh, and are both of you (you and Robert #2) both having the same issue?

It happens everytime I launch.

I uninstalled and I get the smae behavior.

I have the full Team Suite installed and run the following components:
DevExpress Refactor and Express Editors
Infragistics net advantage 2005 volume 3 clr2.0 beta
Infragistics net advantage 2005 volume 3 (clr1.1)
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2005 v3

I stoped Robert from installing untill I talked with you.

No problem here.  But, I am waiting to install. 

From the command prompt, navigate to the Visual Studio directory (default C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\) and type devenv.exe /setup. Then try to re-launch Visual Studio and let me know what happens.



Since we don't use a VsPackage and all of our VsCommands are removed by the uninstall, it's quite troublesome that it still fails even after the uninstall. We don't use a VsPackage, just a few VsCommands to launch our addins, so I'm not entirely sure how the installed VsPackages could have been disrupted.



I'm currently searching for some more info on the result returned by the ExecutionEngineException to see if I can determine what happened.



If the devenv.exe /setup doesn't restore Visual Studio, then you should probably run a "repair install" of Visual Studio from the Add & Remove Programs in the Control Panel; at least then you won't be dead in the water all day.

Running devenv.exe /setup did not help. Also there is no option for doing a repair 2005 is forcing an unistall and reinstall of the application.

I'm going to start by removing 3rd party components first and if need be do a full reinstall.

Robert Harvey was able to install and run fine, the only difference in our installs is that he does not have all the 3rd party components I use.

Robert,



Does this match your scenario at all?



http://www.codecomments.com/Visual_Studio/message698216.html



That person seems to have received the same error you received, but received it during a network synchronization.

Just for fun, I went ahead and ran the install.  I figured...what's the worst thing that can happen?  No work for me?

I tried to do the install with my local database.  But, I kept getting a SQL connection error.  So, I went ahead and used the Datbase the Robert Lathrop had already set up.  Unfortunately(?), I had already told the setup engine to create the databases.  Oh well.  Just meant a longer install.  But, short story long....I started up VS2005 with no issues.  Although, I do not have as many new tools loaded as Robert does.

Just these:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

Microsoft Visual C# 2005   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual C# 2005

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005

Microsoft Visual J# 2005   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual J# 2005

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Architects   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Testers   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers

Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer   77718-204-0000007-41825
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer

Crystal Reports    AAC60-G0CSA4B-V7000AY
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005

Refactor! for Visual Studio   1.0
Refactor! for Visual Studio 2005.

SQL Server Analysis Services  
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Designer
Version 9.00.1399.00

SQL Server Integration Services  
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 9.00.1399.00

SQL Server Reporting Services  
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 9.00.1399.00

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