Ran into problems with first run of Visual Studio 2017 rc; tried reporting with the "Report a Problem" feature within VS, that blew up too. Wonder what the best way is to report a problem with "report a problem"?
Thanks for taking the time to try and report your problem to Visual Studio. Sorry you ran into an issue while using Report a Problem. If you'd like to report issues to us about that, please email us at vsfeedback#microsoft.com. We'd like to understand more about what happened and how we can fix it.
Thanks!
You can always file a bug on http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio. Since this is just a web site, it doesn't depend on VS stability at all. Issues filed on Connect might take a little while to get routed to the product team, but AFAIK they will all get filed as bugs in the product database.
To make it more useful for the product team, please try to capture a dump of the crash and upload that with your Connect issue. That will also help it get triaged and investigated quicker than going back and forth trying to reproduce the problem.
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A simple C++ console app
int main()
{
return 0;
}
compiled in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 adds a call to telemetry_main_invoke_trigger to both Debug and Release binaries.
How can I prevent this?
According to Microsoft’s Steve Carroll (Development Manager for the Visual C++ team), you can remove telemetry calls by adding notelemetry.obj to the command options of the linker:
Steve Carroll explained that this will be removed in the upcoming Update 3:
Our intent was benign – our desire was to build a framework that will
help investigate performance problems and improve the quality of our
optimizer should we get any reports of slowdowns or endemic perf
problems in the field. We apologize for raising the suspicion levels
even further by not including the CRT source, this was just an
oversight on our part. Despite that, some of you already investigated
how this mechanism works in nice detail. As you have already called
out, what the code does is trigger an ETW event which, when it’s
turned on, will emit timestamps and module loads events. The event
data can only be interpreted if a customer gives us symbol information
(i.e. PDBs) so this data is only applicable to customers that are
actively seeking help from us and are willing to share these PDBs as
part of their investigation. We haven’t actually gone through this
full exercise with any customers to date though, and we are so far
relying on our established approaches to investigate and address
potential problems instead. We plan to remove these events in Update
3. In the meantime, to remove this dependency in Update 2, you should add notelemetry.obj to your linker command line.
Let me apologize in advance for the new-guy quality of this question. I would much rather be asking a question about something more interesting, like a challenging Project Euler question or evolutionary algorithms, but alas I am stuck with major VSE 2012 problems.
Up until around four hours ago, VSE 2012 worked perfectly fine. Now, I can't even run a simple "Hello, World" program. No compile errors, although I did have an issue with symbols not being found at the beginning of this nightmare, but I managed to resolve that. It compiles, but it does not run. The console window appears, but no output is displayed, no prompt for input is displayed, nothing is processed. All that appears is the "Please press any key to continue..."
I'm starting to think that my configuration of VSE is corrupted, that maybe I need to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall it all, but I'm hoping that's not the case. My version of VSE is up to date, as is my redistributable. My specs are pretty normal, XPS 15z run-of-the-mill laptop running Windows 7, handled VSE perfectly fine for several months until now.
Since VSE started to act up I have been operating through the command line, although I'm really starting to miss an IDE for C++, it just isn't the same. If VSE doesn't start looking up, I'll just have to get a plug-in for Eclipse or actually put in the time to learn how to use Emacs (maybe this is a sign? haha).
I'm sorry for the rant. Has anyone experienced problems like this? The problem isn't that my program is running too quickly (at least I don't think), since prompting for user input doesn't work, nor does the dreaded system("pause").
Any help will be greatly, greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need more information.
Reinstall it. If it's compiling and running correctly through the command line then it's a problem with VS.
Considering the issue with the symbols, it sounds like you have the choice of either reinstalling or spending a potential several hours fixing some super specific configuration corruption case.
I'm on Windows7, SQL Server 2012 and currently I've installed SSMS Tools Pack (licensed) and SSMSBoost (community free license) plugins, both really usefull and time savers.
The issue I'm having is that each time I restart ssms, usually once a week (but some days, as this morning, maybe couple of times), I need to reconfigure the visible/hidden buttons on both toolbars related to these plugins. I guess is an issue not related to the plugins but more a ssms missconfiguration. I've searched a lot trying to find where is the problem but can't find it. It's becoming really annoying to configure tools bars on each restart.
Any clue on where the problem could be? Do anyone has/had same issue?
I am developer of SSMSBoost. The reason is that we re-create the toolbar every time SSMS starts. This is due to some old issues with toolbar registration in SSMS2008. We plan to eliminate this "bad behaviour" in coming versions.
I'm a little bit reluctant as to ask question, as it was asked already here, but the problem is, it wasn't answered sufficiently enough, so I'm forced to ask it second time.
So, just as previously mentioned asker I'm trying to create new project in Microsoft Visual 2010. And instead of showing normal window, it prompts me to save .html file, as shown in picture below.
Saving it and that opening it results in the following window:
though it does nothing - just page with no influence over the project at all.
Notably, this happens not only for Win32 application, but for MFC applications too.
As for the cause of this I don't know of it. As you can see from first screenshot, I was doing Web applications before hand, but I didn't change any of preferences at all (though, my guess is that it's somehow connected).
As for solving this issue, I tried uninstalling IE8, as stated in previous topic, but that didn't help. Also, I tried doing Tools -> Import & Export Settings -> Reset, but it didn't help either.
Please, if someone know solution for this, tell me - I'm out of my wits with this problem.
This problem is occurred because some Visual studio setting is corrupted.
I'd like to recommend to reset settings like following
start > Run> devenv.exe /resetsettings
Unfortunately, many parts of this case related to disturbing or collisions among files. In my experience, some programmes, which were installed recently, might cause this concern.
I'd like to recommend to install all service packs and update patches for VS 2010 and then try it again. If it doesn't fixed, reinstalling VS will be a relevant solution for saving your time and conserving your passion.
I recently downloaded the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, and it looks awesome. I read the fine print on the download page, and it says:
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is prerelease software and should not be used in production scenarios.
I would be using only the C++ compiler/IDE of VS11, so does anyone know what bugs there are that would prevent me for using VS11 in a production scenario? I really want to start using it and I don't know if it's the C++ part that's not finished, or if it's just some Team Foundation Somethingorother that has nothing to do with me that's not fit for the field.
The licence prohibits it. The WinDP and the associated vNext tools are free- Microsoft would obviously want you to pay. When you download the tools, you agree to the licence terms, which includes not using it in production.
Another obvious thing is that the C++ Intellisense is more than a tad buggy.
There is still work to be done before I would want to use the preview tools all day. The Metro stuff (C++/CX) especially is riddled with red-wigglies that claim something is wrong, but when you press F7 the solution builds without errors and runs fine. If you're using the Ultimate version, you may not find that as often, but I think you will find it. As for whether the compiler currently generates code that is incorrect, everyone hopes that it emits correct code, but of course the WHOLE POINT of the dev preview is to find out whether it does or not. So nobody can answer you. Spending some time on Connect looking at bugs others have submitted might give you a feel for whether your areas have a lot of bug reports against them. An absence of reports is ambiguous, of course -- maybe your areas are rock solid, maybe no-one on Connect is exercising them.