Visual Studio 2008 hangs while loading Setup Projects

Question

Visual Studio 2008 hangs while loading Setup Projects

So far everything worked fin in VS2008. 
Now i have the problem that I can not create a new setup project (or load any Project that contains a setup project).

While creating/loading the setupprojectname.vdproj file VS2008 just stopps responding.
I have to kill the process and that is it.

Anny suggestions?

By the way I am using VS2008 Pro German

André

 

UPDATE:

I did a full uninstall of VS2008 and installed it again completely.

Still the same problem. Maybe the problem is located in Windows itself (Win 2003 Server R2 Standard) with

latest patchlevel. I also have the problem, that the explorer hangs, when dblclicking an image (bmp, etc.)

So mayby something is wrong with the registry (already tried to solve this using TuneUp Utilities 2008).

 

When creating a Setup Project VS2008 is able to create the project directory and the debug/release diretories.

But the are NOT FILES created. Process-monitor Registry-Monitor and File-Monitor show that there are no problems.

 

And please don't tell me that I have to install the whole system again :-)

 

AZ

Answer 1

I finally found the problem.

It was in fact a windows setting for COM services.

 

If you activate the "Zusätzliche Sicherheit für Verweisprotokollierung" in the Defaultsettings in the ComponentServices of the computer, VS will hang while loading the required settings for your setup project.

After disabling the setting (default=false) everything works fine again.

 

AZ

Answer 2

 

If you activate the "Zusätzliche Sicherheit für Verweisprotokollierung" in the Defaultsettings in the ComponentServices of the computer, VS will hang while loading the required settings for your setup project.

After disabling the setting (default=false) everything works fine again.


I roughly translated this to the checkbox named:

Provide additional security for reference tracking

but it didnt work for me...

Answer 3

Worked for me:



remove the check:

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http://alax.info/blog/tag/directshow

Answer 4

Thank you for this tip. This helped me for VS2005, too.

Answer 5

FYI

I had this same problem in VS 2010 Ultimate and this solution worked for me.  Thanks Matt and Andre.