VS 2010 crashes when creating a new project

Question

Hello,

I've just installed Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. I already had VS 2008 sp1 installed on my computer.
When I start Visual Studio and create a new project, the application crashes before I can edit it.
I tried to repair Visual Studio 2010 but the problem remains the same.
Here is the error report:

Event Type*: Erreur
Event Source*: Microsoft Visual Studio
Event Catagory*: Aucun
Event ID*: 1000
Date*: 24/10/2009
Time*: 15:40:54
User*: N/A
Machine*: MAA
Description*:
Faulting application devenv.exe, version 10.0.21006.1, stamp 4acbdb09, faulting module vsdebug.dll, version 10.0.21006.1, stamp 4acc0cdf, debug? 0, fault address 0x0002f2ae.

0000: 41 00 70 00 70 00 6c 00 A.p.p.l.
0008: 69 00 63 00 61 00 74 00 i.c.a.t.
0010: 69 00 6f 00 6e 00 20 00 i.o.n. .
0018: 46 00 61 00 69 00 6c 00 F.a.i.l.
0020: 75 00 72 00 65 00 20 00 u.r.e. .
0028: 20 00 64 00 65 00 76 00 .d.e.v.
0030: 65 00 6e 00 76 00 2e 00 e.n.v...
0038: 65 00 78 00 65 00 20 00 e.x.e. .
0040: 31 00 30 00 2e 00 30 00 1.0...0.
0048: 2e 00 32 00 31 00 30 00 ..2.1.0.
0050: 30 00 36 00 2e 00 31 00 0.6...1.
0058: 20 00 34 00 61 00 63 00 .4.a.c.
0060: 62 00 64 00 62 00 30 00 b.d.b.0.
0068: 39 00 20 00 69 00 6e 00 9. .i.n.
0070: 20 00 76 00 73 00 64 00 .v.s.d.
0078: 65 00 62 00 75 00 67 00 e.b.u.g.
0080: 2e 00 64 00 6c 00 6c 00 ..d.l.l.
0088: 20 00 31 00 30 00 2e 00 .1.0...
0090: 30 00 2e 00 32 00 31 00 0...2.1.
0098: 30 00 30 00 36 00 2e 00 0.0.6...
00a0: 31 00 20 00 34 00 61 00 1. .4.a.
00a8: 63 00 63 00 30 00 63 00 c.c.0.c.
00b0: 64 00 66 00 20 00 66 00 d.f. .f.
00b8: 44 00 65 00 62 00 75 00 D.e.b.u.
00c0: 67 00 20 00 30 00 20 00 g. .0. .
00c8: 61 00 74 00 20 00 6f 00 a.t. .o.
00d0: 66 00 66 00 73 00 65 00 f.f.s.e.
00d8: 74 00 20 00 30 00 30 00 t. .0.0.
00e0: 30 00 32 00 66 00 32 00 0.2.f.2.
00e8: 61 00 65 00 0d 00 0a 00 a.e.....

What can I do to solve this problem ?

Thank you in advance for any help.

mathmax

Answer 1

Did you install and uninstall a previous version of VS 2010 on this machine?  If so, you could try a full uninstall-reinstall.  Uninstalling everything can be time consuming, so I posted a little tool called "Uninstall" on my blog that attempts to uninstall everything that VS 2010 installed on your machine so it gets back to a clean state, then you can try and install VS 2010 beta 2 again.  If this doesn't work then the only guarenteed solution is to wipe the OS.