Visual Studio Crashes When Trying to Create Win32

Question

Whenever I try to create a Win32 project, my visual studio crashes.

Initially, I was doing this in VC++ Express 2010, then I repaired the install, tried it again, and it still crashed.

So I uninstalled everything that had "Microsoft Visual Studio" in its name, and downloaded Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, tried to create a Win32 project, and it crashed again. 

I was able to create empty projects and CLR projects in both versions, and only Win32 projects are making Visual Studio Crash.

What can I do?

P.S. I've already tried turning it off and back on again.

Answer 1

Hi James,

To find what cause this issue, we should get the log file when your Visual Studio crash.

You can get the ActivityLog.xml via /log command.

You also can get the dump file as the blog said:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/debugger/archive/2009/12/30/what-is-a-dump-and-how-do-i-create-one.aspx 

After you get the log file, please upload it to SkyDrive and post the link here. We can analyze the problem in depth.

If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

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Answer 2

I can't figure out how to get the log, but I've uploaded a dump here:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=CCFB13FA9C86943D!107&authkey=!AEUs1L3KU8egZiY

Answer 3

Please help.