VS2010 Crashes - InstallAware X Evaluation

redbyron · Postby **redbyron** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:01 am

Hello,

i have downloaded InstallAware X in order to evaluate and proceed with a buy.

The machine has Win7 Ultimate 64b + Win2008 64b + VS2010 Ultimate with Silverlight 4 tools.

After i installed Installaware 10 evaluation (Complete install), vs2010 was crashing when opening .xaml files , and occasionaly when opening .edmx files in xml editor or .config files...

That caused me one system format, and many hours of searching, without finding a solution to this...

At last, i managed to overcome this problem by reinstalling vs2010 and applying Silverlight 4 Client Tools again...

Any ideas why this is happening?

Postby **FrancescoT** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:14 am

I think you found the same problem I had at the first installation of IA.

If this is true, personally I think the problem it is caused by something that seems to be a bug of the "IA Add in" for visual Studio. In my experience, I have repeted the IA installation two times, on two different machines (both with Win 7 64 utimate and VS 2010). In both cases, if the installation of IA was executed including the VS Studio Add-in, this caused the crash of Visual studio 2010. In particular, the crash happened when I tried to edit any file of my c++ active vs project.

I suspect that this is caused for some interference, that seems to be generated by the Add in installation, with Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense feature.

I also found that just unistalling the IA Add in do not solved the problem for me. So to restore the previous system condition, I have first uninstalled IA completely then I have executed a system restore, in order to have the conditions of the Win OS as it was a few days before. Finally, I have once again installed IA without installing "Visual Studio Add in" and it worked perfectly and the problem with Visual Studio, has no longer happened.

This was occurred using IA 9 R2 sp3 .... and when I have Installed IA 10 I have deselected "Visual Studio Add in" (for safety...) ... so I do not know if this still occur with the last edition of IA.

I really hope this can help you.

redbyron · Postby **redbyron** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:22 pm

Hello,

This is exactly what has happened. I also repeated the installation on two different machines, win7 64 ultimate with vs2010ultimate and vs2008 ide from sql2008 installation with the same results (ENVDTE interface crashing, probably due to intellisense)

Anyway, the vs2010 repair did the trick and the plugin also seems to work.

I propose to anyone interested not to install the plugin , it is time consuming repairing the studio

and in my opinion the plugin is of almost no use...

K-ballo · Postby **K-ballo** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:19 pm

We have been unable to reproduce this based on your description. You may have other Add-Ins or applications which are causing conflicts. Could you please provide us with detailed, step-by-step, instructions to reproduce it?

Thank you.-

mills · Postby **mills** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:34 pm

Could you provide a list of other plugins you use with VS?

Postby **FrancescoT** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:16 am

HI Mills,

Personally I have not installed any other Visual studio 2010 plug-in, except that ones (if there are*** ) available in a complete standard Installation of Visual Studio 2010 professional setup.
In addition to Visual Studio installation, there is also Visual source safe 2005.

Anyway, for your convenience, follow you will find the copy of the info in VS 2010 about box (...as you can see ....there isn't no one plugin in the list):

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Version 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.0.30319 RTMRel

Installed Version: Professional

Microsoft Office Developer Tools 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Office Developer Tools

Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010

Microsoft Visual C# 2010 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual C# 2010

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010

Microsoft Visual F# 2010 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual F# 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 01018-532-2002102-70464
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010

Crystal Reports Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Crystal Reports Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools 10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools

Feel free to ask if you need more info.

mills · Postby **mills** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:27 pm

Does anyone who has seen this have an environment like a VM where they can or have reproduced this?

Postby **FrancescoT** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:58 am

No, I have'nt. Personally I do not use any environment like VM.

adrianp · Postby **adrianp** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:56 pm

It too broke my Visual Studio 2010. I can no longer change any C++ code. As soon as I type something, VS crashes. I literally installed InstallAware today. This bug was reported 5 months ago and this software is still out there in the wild breaking VS? Where can I send the bill for the time you'll make me waste trying to fix what you broke?

Postby **giaviv** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:58 am

Dear adrianp,

I apologize, however we have not been able to reproduce this in-house, which makes the bug fixing process a lot harder.

Could you please try and give us some information on how to reproduce this problem?

adrianp · Postby **adrianp** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:45 am

I'm sorry, but I don't have time to help you fix your bugs. I've uninstalled the product and thankfully it seems to not be crashing any more.

Postby **giaviv** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:43 am

Glad it was figured out.

lukas.neumann · Postby **lukas.neumann** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:29 am

Hi,

I keep having he same problem. I have Visual Studio 2010 and as soon as I installed Installaware 9 R2, Visual studio started to crash when I try to open XML or XAML file. So I uninstalled InstallAware, but it still keeps crashing, which is very annoying as I can no longer use my Visual Studio 2010.

Can you please provide a list of steps how to completely unregister InstallAware from my system so that I can use my development environment again?

Thank you
Lukas Neumann

Postby **giaviv** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:45 am

Dear Lukas,

Your best bet would be to reinstall VS - is that not an option for you?

lneumann · Postby **lneumann** » Tue May 10, 2011 3:13 am

Hi,

I re-installed Visual Studio 2010 and it seem to be working now. However soon I will have to install InstallAware again because I will have to create an installer for my app - is there a way (possibly an installation option) to install InstallAware so that it won't break my Visual Studio again?

Thank you
Lukas