Extremely bad situation with VB 2010 express - vb.net

I have been having errors with intellisense on vb 2010 express. I tried editing code and intellisense crashed it. I tried disabling intellisense, and that crashed it too. It has gotten worse, and is now at the point where it crashes my computer when I open vb. I've tried repairing it, and it said it couldn't install Microsoft Error Reporting. I tried to uninstall it, and it said there was a problem with a .dll and told me to see if I could access it. The dll exists, and I was able to easily find it. I've tried restarting the computer and uninstalling it, and that did nothing. Please help me, this is extremely aggravating.

The best bet if to uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio. Try uninstalling after a fresh system boot. If that doesn't work, try booting in Safe Mode and uninstalling. If that doesn't work, try re-installing with the "repair" option. If that doesn't work, as a last resort you might be able to reinstall a second copy of Visual Studio on the computer and use it.

I would reinstall the entire computer.
Reinstall windows and go from there.
No repair, no fix. Clean install.

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Visual Studio Type is not defined

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.

Uninstall Atomineer

Looks like I am being held hostage by the Atomineer Pro Documentation add-in for Visual Studio! The trail period is over, I have no use for it! But now everytime I do something in Visual Studio I get an error message and get sent to their web site!
I have looked all over to find out how to uninstall it and have not found away to uninstall it!
WARNING TO EVERYONE - This Atomineer Pro is not easy to uninstall!! Just from the problems of uninstalling it, I would highly recomend no one ever installs it!
I ran into this too running on Windows 10 and VS 2013. Ended up installing and running IObit Uninstaller, which clean up the registry, but Atomineer was still loading in Visual Studio. My second pass was to search my C: drive for "Atomineer" which got several hits including some in a VS AddIns folder (I think). I just deleted everything and that did the trick.
Visual Studio 2015 onwards (Standard VS Extension)
In Visual Studio, go to Tools > Extensions and Updates, select Atomineer from the list, and click the Uninstall button.
Visual Studio 2005-2013 (Standard VS Add-in)
Use Control Panel > Programs and Features to uninstall it just like any other app, or
Run the Atomineer installer and select "uninstall", or
In the unlikely case that neither of the above work, you can manually search your drive and delete any "AtomineerUtils.Addin" files you find.
In any case if you have any problems, email Atomineer support and we'll be happy to help.

Visual Basic Command Line Compiler has stopped working

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

Visual studio 2013, can't open or create projects

I tried getting Visual Studio 2013 to work today but i couldn't get it to work. This is the error I keep getting when making a c++ window application.
The error message I keep getting:
I tried opening the vcxproj file in the message box, but I couldn't open that either. In fact I am unable to open any vcxproject's. This problem happens with pretty much all languages.
I uninstalled vs 2012 and 2010, and then installed vs2013.
I have tried :
reinstalling the nuget extension.
Reinstalling vs2013 a bunch of time and trying to repair the
installation
Uninstalling all traces of vs2010 and vs2012
one thing that might be important is that I used the november CTP c++ preview compiler for vs2012. I can't seem to uninstall it though
but nothing helped so far. Anybody able to help me?
I decided to bite the bullet and re-install windows 7. Everything works again. In the future I will probably avoid downloading CTP's though or be very careful about uninstalling them.
This happened to me when I installed .NET framework 3.5 manually to install "SQL Server Management Studio" as I recall, Then I found that v. 3.5 is incompatible with VS 2013 as this page mentioned:
VS 2013 Comparability
after I turned the related feature off, The problem with creating c++ projects disappeared ..

Standard install of VSExpress2012 on Win8, the IDE will not launch

I have a windows 8 x64 machine, pretty new image, and I just installed VS2012 C# express, and the install completed fine. but when I launch the IDE, nothing happens, I do not see a new process starting in Task Manager either.
After googling a bit, people suggest that it may be extensions and to run "devenv.exe /safemode". I did not install any extensions, and "devenv.exe" does not exist in my system. all I can find is %SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpress.exe. This is where the shortcut created on my desktop points too. I have tried using the " /safemode" switch with that .exe, but nothing happens.
I am currently running a repair on the program now, maybe that will fix it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I found the issue, The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 was locking some files. After removing it. VS2012 opened right up.