Application Cannot Start in Visual Studio 2010 in administrator mode

Question

I am evaluating Visual Studio Profession 2010 for use in Creating Sharepoint 2010 BDCSs,

I downloaded and registered a trial copy of VS2010 and tried to create a BDC.  The IDE started up OK and allowed me to select a BDC project but then told me it had to be run as an administrator.  So I restarted teh IDE as an administrator at which point I got the message "the application cannot start".  I can now always run as a non-administrator but never as an administartor.

I have tried devenv /restuserdata which succeeds but does not fix the problem.

I am using Windows 7 professional (64bit).

 

Answer 1

Hi ama,

Welcome to the MSDN Forum.

First, there is one thing I would like to clarify with you:

• Does your Windows user account has the Administrator privilege?

If your user account do not have Administrator privilege, would you please switch to the Administrator accout and try again?

To develop SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems, UAC requires that you run Visual Studio as a system administrator. Right-click the Visual Studio shortcut on the desktop and then click Run as administrator.

To configure the desktop shortcut to always run as administrator, right-click the shortcut, click Properties, click the Advanced button, and then select Run as administrator.

For more information, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231582.aspx

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

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Answer 2

Hi ama,

Welcome to the MSDN Forum.

First, there is one thing I would like to clarify with you:

• Does your Windows user account has the Administrator privilege?

If your user account do not have Administrator privilege, would you please switch to the Administrator accout and try again?

To develop SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems, UAC requires that you run Visual Studio as a system administrator. Right-click the Visual Studio shortcut on the desktop and then click Run as administrator.

To configure the desktop shortcut to always run as administrator, right-click the shortcut, click Properties, click the Advanced button, and then select Run as administrator.

For more information, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231582.aspx

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

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Andrew Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us
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This it NOT a correct answer, the moderator didn't even bother to TRY to UNDERSTAND the question. I am having this same issue and answers like this marked as correct really spoils this forum's credibility.

 

The fix that worked for me is:

Copy the following files from "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE \" 

dte80.olb 
dte80a.olb 
dte90.olb 
dte90a.old
dte100.old 

And then register them all in that location and the application now should works as both administrator and as a regular user.

Answer 3

Did this thing worked for you because I am getting the same error of VS not getting started in administrator mode. I have tried a couple of more things like setting the user data to default value and resetting the settings of VS but non of them had made any difference to the outcome.

Thanks,

Ashutosh

Answer 4

Hi Pedro Lima,

Can you please provide the source from where you got this information. It would be helpful for me to understand the thing more closely.

 

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Ashu

Answer 5

the files you show that need to be copied do not even show in my c:/program files/common files/microsoft shared....... directory

Answer 6

This solved my problem exactly.

Answer 7

Thanks, worked great!

I am just gettings started with Azure development, and you need to run in elevated mode to get the emulator to run from Visual Studio.

In my case, I needed to copy the files to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE \"

I run Windows 7 64-bit

Answer 8

Hi Pedro...I had a big headache after installing VS 2010 on my Win 7 64 bit. On Win 7 32 bit it started and worked without problem but on 64 bit version there was a mess. First I had to resolve "The Applicaton Data folder for Visual Studio could not find". This problem was really in admistrator privileges in the folders C:\Documents&Settings\"owner"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Visual Studio ... and VSA. Both these directories and all inside them must change to administrator (here "owner") privileges. Then as administrator run "devenv /setup" first.

Then appeared "Application cannot start" problem. And this really was solved with changing administartor privileges of mentioned 5 .olb files and copied them to  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE \" .

Now the Visual Studio stats without problems.

Thanks a lot Pedro.

Libor Berka

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Libor Berka

Answer 9

Copying the olb-files worked fine for me, thank you!

Using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7 my folder paths are:

copy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSEnv\dte*.olb" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE"