Im working in a vb.net project for months. Today i started my computer and saw thousands upon thousands of errors, mostly Type 'x' is not defined. Searched through the web but couldnt find a thing that worked for me, this post being the most notable one: How do you clear your Visual Studio cache on Windows Vista? . Deleting .vs folder had no effect either.
Im using Visual studio 2015 on windows 10, and i pretty sure the problem is something about cache, since re downloading the project or reverting changes didnt worked, how can i fix this? I'm loosing my mind
Ok, so it happened to be a network error in my workplace, so the program couldnt get the DLLs used.
Probably this question won't be much of a use to anyone, try the article that i mentioned in the question first, or deleting your .vs file:
How do you clear your Visual Studio cache on Windows Vista?
But it is worth noticing that a network error can be your problem too, so stay aware of that.
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I have been using Visual Studio 2010 Pro for my vb.net desktop application development. I publish the apps via clickonce to a web server with ftp. My settings look like this:
Publishing folder location: ftp://www.webaddress.com/folder/
Installation folder : http://webaddress.com/folder/
This works perfect in VS2010.
I am now trying to upgrade to Visual Studio 2015 community edition. When I try to publish my app, I get the error "The components for communicating with FTP servers are not installed". I am getting this error on both computers I have installed VS2015 on.
Strangely enough, there isn't much info on this error. The only solution I've seen is to repair the installation. I did this but still a no go.. Another cause I read about is having Xamarin installed, but I have never had that installed.
Has anybody run into this and know what the fix is??
EDIT:
It appears to not actually have anything to do with installed components. After I posted this question, I realized the publish via FTP had worked earlier on a little sample Hello World project i made (brain fart). It was only once I loaded my existing project that this error started showing up.
I closed the solution, created another simple project, and still got the error. I closed visual studio, reopened the sample project, and ftp worked! I then opened my existing project and ftp worked there too?! So I don't know what the trigger is, and I haven't had it fail again yet, but maybe this info will help figure out what is causing the failure.
EDIT (3/30/2017)
Just an update - I am still having this issue. This issue happens on visual studio 2013, 2015, and 2017. I have tried reinstalling the c++ redistributable, still nothing. It seems others are having this issue with a web project but mine is a desktop app publishing with clickonce via FTP. It must be something to do with solution I am working on that was originally created in 2010, as the issue is not present in any other project.
I had the same issue with Visual Studio 2017. What fixed it for me was to start the Visual Studio Installer and install the ".NET Core cross-platform development" workload.
I had the same issue in Visual Studio 2015 / Update 3. It was resolved after installing the 32-bit version of Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784)
See also https://github.com/aspnet/Tooling/issues/748
I had the same problem with Visual Studio 2015. And Publish used to work fine so I went going crazy looking for and trying different solutions. Then I read on another thread of doing a Setup-> Repair (submitted by Erikest). I did a Setup->Repair and the publish process now works! I think it's also possible that the Repair not only did the trick on the FTP components but also replaced the C++ redistributable (often mentioned as a solution to this problem),
This is a total work around, but I've noticed I get this error every time I open my app (that originated in VS2010) and try to publish without first opening a sample app. I created a new project and published it to my FTP server. When I receive this error, I close Visual studio, reopen and the open the sample project, publish that app, then open my real app. The publish then works.
This works every time, and seems to be a bug in Visual studio, and probably has something to do with the fact that my app was originally built in 2010.
Maybe this will help somebody else with the same issue. It's a big pain so hopefully MS gets a fix in for this.
I have been banging my head against this problem for many months, re-installed VS over and over and just did a clean install of Windows 10 in the hope it would work but to no avail. By chance I cleaned some old .accdb files from the App_Data folder that I no longer need since I converted to SQL Server database and FTP publishing now works.
So it seems VS does not like the .accdb files but was happy with .mdb files when publishing with FTP.
As soon as I put the file back in App_Data the problem returns. Hope this is some help.
I had the same issue here, I was using the Publish right click option on the project, which had been working fine. What fixed it for me was going back through the publish options and re-testing the connection. Publish seemed to work after that. Maybe it forgot a password or settings?
I also installed the x86 C++ Redistribution Package.
Hope this helps someone who is in the same boat.
After many successful website publishes with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, we experienced the "components for communicating with ftp servers are not installed" issue. :(
First attempt at resolution was uninstalling VS Community 2015, then installing VS Community 2017. Received the same error: "components for communicating with ftp servers are not installed" when attempting to publish our business website.
With some work, we found that by uninstalling Microsoft Web Deploy and re-installing, this seemed to fix the problem. We can now use Visual Studio > Publish function to our ftp without problems.
See this link for download of Microsoft Web Deploy components.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43717
Dont know what broke this VS IDE functionality, but hope this fix helps some.
I encountered the same error with Visual Studio 2019
I fixed it by using the Visual Studio Installer to install the Web Deploy (inc .netcore 2.1) under individual components
I just did a simple "repair installation" in the installer. Worked for me.
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 and had this problem for a while.
The problem went away after I updated about 10 NuGet updates that were over due.
I had the same problem, I closed all the open windows I closed Visual Studio and then I opened again and published and then it worked!
Yesterday, I could work with Visual Studio 2010 without any problem. However, today after I turned on the computer and tried to open my project (Web application with Visual Basic.NET) on VS2010 again, I got a message box showing as below:
Later, I found out after I tried deleting suo file that this message box will show up whenever I open some file in Visual Studio so I tried to run the application. Then, I found another message box popped up as below:
And after I close the message box, I finally got this window
It says:
Compilation Error
Compiler Error Message: The compiler failed with error code -1073741511.
I have searched for the solution through the internet. I have found a few methods that might solve the solution such as scanning for virus, using clean boot. I have also tried repairing and uninstalling VS2010 and .NET framework but none still work. Right now, I have no idea what I should to do make it work again.
Anyway, I realized that there is Windows auto update when I turned off the computer. Not so sure if this related to the problem (I used Window 8.1).
After formatting Drive C to reinstalling everything again, I found out that the reason might be Windows update. I have started from reinstalling Windows 8, all necessary programs (except Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio) and all window updates required for upgrading to Windows 8.1.
When I successfully got to Windows 8.1, I created system restore point and try installing VS2010 and all windows update. The result had caused the same error I posted in this thread.
After that, I restored back to original state and installed VS2010 first. Then installed some of windows updates. This time, I decided to install all updates except the ones that have publish date after 10/11/2015. The result is satisfied. I don't get this error again.
Later, Hans Passant help me find the actual cause of this problem. Please see this link:
Why do I get an error for "__CrtGetFileInformationByHandleEx " when I try to compile
We are getting a application failed to initialize error 0xc000007b. I looked around it seems to maybe be the .NET framework, I also read a possible virus.
Our application is Visual Basic .NET 2010, running on Windows XP, Windows Update is turned on.
What fixes the problem, seems to be temporary, is take my backup copy of the .exe and replace the .exe on the machine, it runs for a few hours. Keep in mind I am 12 hours away or more from the machine, I remote to it using TeamViewer.
Will event viewer or something else give me a better idea of what happened? or more information about the error and it's cause?
I'm far from a Visual Basic guru, so I'm very puzzled as to why this application is throwing this error after running for approximately 2 years.
Can windows update cause this? Does .NET framework update itself automatically?
Thanks for any help.
Well if your program was not recompiled, I'd doubt it's the program itself, but if you have the source code you can try running it through the debugger to see what's going on, and where. Personally I'd try just reimaging your xp system and seeing if that fixes the issue.
Also, isn't xp out of support? I suppose windows updates could affect it. I've seen updates cause older applications to break, so it is a possibility. You can look at the recent updates and roll them back.
We are using MVVM Light Toolkit (from Galasoft - Laurent Bugnion).
Until now we were using Visual Studio 2010.
Everything was working well (thanks to Laurent).
Two days ago we moved to Visual Studio 2012.
And now Intellisense is no longer working in Xaml files (but still working in code-behind).
After looking on forums and made some tests, it appears that we have an issue with "GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.SL5.dll".
As soon as GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.SL5.dll is removed from project references, intellisense is working again.
Someone already had same problem and/or know a solution ?
Thanks.
Alain.
We had a similar problem when we migrated from Silverlight 4 to 5. We were using a local copy of GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.SL5.dll copied from another computer.
Once we installed the MvvmLight .msi package and changed the reference in our Silverlight project to C:\Program Files (x86)\[...]\GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.SL5.dll, IntelliSense started working again.
Hope this helps
The question really says it all. For one project I am working on, the Visual Basic Compiler crashes resulting in me having to restart my IDE.
It looks like it crashes when copying a PDB file and XML file for the web site for obj/debug to the output folder.
Has anyone experienced similar crashes? If so how did you repair it?
Are there any crash logs stored anywhere??
I am using visual Studio version
8.0.50727.762 (SP .050727-7600)
After contincually hitting send error report to microsoft I finally got a little message box saying "We think this might be your problem" with this Link
I believe this is my problem... I have still to obtain the hot fix
Do you actually get an error message or code when it crashes, or do you just get the "Visual Studio stopped working" error message?
I'd second trying to uninstall, reinstall, and reapply SP1, just to make sure it isn't something with your installation. I've never had the VB compiler crash on me, and I'd imagine that permissions problems and other exceptions moving a file would be completely covered within the compiler's internals.
You can try using the event viewer in Administrative Tools to see if any logs were recorded.
Looks like you aren't running Visual Studio 2005 SP1. We had tons of VBC crashes before SP1 -- it was a wonder they even made to RTM on the product. Just terrible. Install Service Pack 1 and your problems will most likely go away.
Have you already tried cleaning your solution/project?
Sometimes the .suo, .ncb and other files maintained by Visual Studio get corrupted resulting in crashes during complilation or debugging.
Simply delete .SUO file and get Nirvana :)