today, vs2005 died, badly!
July 11th, 2007Today, after a mandatory reboot because of a patch Tuesday windows update, devenv.exe of Visual Studio 2005 no longer wants to start. Well, it tries to start, and sometimes it gives a flash of its main window, but then it dies without a cry.
The first thing one tries to resolve the problem is to reboot … to no avail. Uh-oh … Trying to start devenv.exe from another account? It doesn’t start either. Double Uh-oh …
OK, no panic yet. If rebooting doesn’t help, reinstalling the product will. It’s a bit tedious, but it has to be done. Removing the current installation, installing VS2005 from scratch. Freeing 3 gigs on C: to reinstall SP1, installing SP1, fingers crossed … still doesn’t reboot! Now I’m really scared!
WTF may be causing that much of trouble to devenv.exe? The only thing left to do is to try to reverse the windows updates …
To be continued …
