Visual Studio 2010 Beta Windows 7 Application Error

Question

Installed VS 2010 Beta, version 10.0.20506.1, on Vista Ultimate two weeks ago.  I took all the default values for the install.  It was a smooth install; nothing to report other than thumbs up.  This past weekend I upgraded/installed Windows 7 on the Vista machine.  I tried to run VS 2010 but not able to; the splash screen does not even appear. I see devenv.exe starting a thread by watching Process Monitor when launching VS 2010. The thread dies after a second or two. 

I go to Event Viewer and see the following:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          10/20/2009 8:00:41 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      glb-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 10.0.20506.1, time stamp: 0x4a0153c5
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x1c60
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca51e9e8cfc22f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 26a4309e-bddd-11de-ada5-001d60aca4a8
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-21T01:00:41.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>181664</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>glb-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>devenv.exe</Data>
    <Data>10.0.20506.1</Data>
    <Data>4a0153c5</Data>
    <Data>unknown</Data>
    <Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
    <Data>00000000</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>00000000</Data>
    <Data>1c60</Data>
    <Data>01ca51e9e8cfc22f</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe</Data>
    <Data>unknown</Data>
    <Data>26a4309e-bddd-11de-ada5-001d60aca4a8</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Any ideas of may be the issue?

I did try to run VS 2010 as the administrator to see if that helped.  Nope.

I need to prepare for a discussion on VS 2010 by next Tuesday, so any suggestion will be appreaciated.

Answer 1

Hi Gerald,

This is a known issue - upgrading to Windows 7 will cause Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 to stop working.  Uninstalling and reinstalling VS should fix the problem, though I would encourage you to switch from VS 2010 Beta1 to Beta2, which becomes publicly availalbe tomorrow.  If you have any further trouble with this, please feel free to post again here anytime.

Thanks for trying VS 2010 - hope this helps!

Brittany Behrens
Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform
http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor

Answer 2

I have a same error when installing VS 2010 Beta 2. first I uninstall Beta1 version but now can't install Beta 2

[10/24/09,08:48:43] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: [2] CMsiComponent::Install() expects the setup file for Microsoft Application Error Reporting, but the file failed verification.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InternalInstallManager() with HRESULT -2147467259.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Application Error Reporting is not installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 9.0 Runtime (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 10.0 Runtime (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 10.0 Runtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual F# 1.0 Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Macro Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates TFS Object Model (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 - Visual Studio 2010 Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Silverlight 3 SDK was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime Beta 2 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Office Development Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports templates for Visual Studio 2010 was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Tools for SQL Server Compact ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET v2.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Services v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework SDK v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 10.0 Designtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Performance Collection Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Trace Debugger Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard 1.4 was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates SQL Server System CLR Types was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Data-tier Application Component Framework was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Data-tier Application Component Project System was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Transact-SQL Language Service was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SharePoint Development Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[10/24/09,08:48:43] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Help 3.0 Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed.

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David Sakhelashvili

Answer 3

Same here when installing VS 2010 Beta2 on Windows 7. Here's the relevant looking part of the installer log:

[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in CBaseComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty - Property: {BBE1827C-F2FD-4FDA-A6D6-C83B62FFFDCA} - PropertyName: compfailed - Value: 0
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty - Property: {E0875D42-A33D-4C64-81C9-167795F29CA4} - PropertyName: PathFromCartmanToRoot - Value: ..
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: File failed validation: d:\setup\..\wcu\watson\dw20shared.msi; error = 0x80091007
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : CMsiComponent::Install() expects the setup file for Microsoft Application Error Reporting, but the file failed verification.
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty - Property: {BBE1827C-F2FD-4FDA-A6D6-C83B62FFFDCA} - PropertyName: compfailed - Value: 0
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: CBaseComponent::LaunchWatson() - Obtained CSetupWatson instance
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in CBaseComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in CBaseComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: CBaseComponent::LaunchWatson() - Creating a PreReq Watson report with manifest: C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\MAN6959.tmp
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: CBaseComponent::LaunchWatson() - Using manifest: C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\MAN6959.tmp
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in CBaseComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: CBaseComponent::LaunchWatson() - Setting the property CustomCoreProp_WatsonManifestReady to use the GenComp Manifest.
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[11/21/09,11:55:50] Microsoft Application Error Reporting: CBaseComponent::LaunchWatson() - Completed

[11/21/09,11:55:50] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[11/21/09,11:55:50] setup.exe: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InternalInstallManager() with HRESULT -2147467259.