Unable to Run/Debug in Visual Studio IDE

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A few days ago I had a patch pushed to my machine and since then I cannot run or debug a project within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Stuff I've noticed:
- I can open & close projects; compile and publish; use Source Control, etc.
- The "run" toolbar button is disabled
- F5/F10/F11 have no effect with no errors or warnings displayed
- 4 other devs received the same patch and have no problem
- If I “runas” local admin, everything works (but I don’t have access to network resources, so not a permanent solution)
- the Options/Tools/Debugging pane says, “An error occurred loading this property page”
- everything else seems to be working just fine
- can’t find similar situations through Google
- TechNet concierge gave up after 10 minutes
- Running under Vista Enterprise

Any hints or assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Posted 14-Sep-11 4:35am

Hooga Booga

Updated 14-Sep-11 4:55am

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fjdiewornncalwe 14-Sep-11 10:40am

What operating system. In Windows 7 you may have to run the application as administrator to access all features of the IDE.

Hooga Booga 14-Sep-11 10:54am

Thanks for the feedback!

Vista Enterprise (don't hold it against me). It has been working for a couple years just fine, and none of the other devs with the same environment are having this problem.

Herman<T>.Instance 14-Sep-11 14:18pm

if you do a rigth click on the visualstudio exe -->devenv.exe via your explorer use right mouse click, select properties and on the tab Compatability you can check Run as Administrator. Each time you run visual studio it will be run in admin mode

Hooga Booga 14-Sep-11 14:32pm

Appreciate the feedback, but if I run in admin mode, I do not have access to my network resources (file servers, internet, etc). This is a stop-gap measure that I can use, but it can't be permanent.

Thanks

Albert Holguin 7-Nov-11 13:34pm

Why wouldn't you have access to network resources? ...you should still have access to all that, just maybe the shortcuts won't load for you... Not being logged into a domain does not exclude you from accessing shares or the internet.

Hooga Booga 8-Nov-11 15:42pm

My admin user account is only admin over the local box and does not have access to any network resources - company policy. It comes down from on high and I have no power to change it.

Albert Holguin 8-Nov-11 20:42pm

When you log on into a domain, that's the same login you can use to access the file shares directly over the network... you don't have to be logged in.

Hooga Booga 9-Nov-11 7:54am

My company has given me two domain accounts; one is my standard account that has standard user access to my own box and and all network resources. My second domain account grants me admin on my local machine, but the company has locked all the external resources from that account. It is a domain account, but the policies enforced by the company do not grant any access to domain resources. I can temporarily promote my standard account to local admin, but within a day that is rolled back through the domain security policies.

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I have read all through problems and didn't find any good reason behind this. But I suspect one of your patch that you have installed on your PC. If possible try reinstalling all your products and as your OS is Win VISTA. Please try to run VS2005 with Compatibility settings.

If it still doesn't work. then try for newer versions of VS. Newer versions are more stable than VS2005.

Posted 7-Nov-11 6:32am

Jyoti Choudhury

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Hooga Booga · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-08T09:55:00

After a call to MSDN, I was finally able to get through this problem. We tried quite a number of things over a couple sessions, but the final solution was finally reached. From the command line I had to run:

devenv /resetskippkgs

We had run a couple of reset items similar to this, but this is the one that in the end seemed to work. The MSDN tech gave me a few other of these scripts and their intended outcomes that I give to you for your viewing pleasure:
devenv /resetsettings This command will erase all the setting if you have any custom settings for the project
devenv /resetskippkgs Clears all options to skip loading added to VSPackages by users wishing to avoid loading problem VSPackages, then starts Visual Studio.
devenv /setup Forces Visual Studio to merge the resource metadata that describes menus, toolbars, and command groups from all VSPackages available.
devenv /safemode opens visual studio in safemode
devenv /resetuserdata to reset Visual Studio

Hope this helps!