Null pointer while trying to read xml with boost - c++

Question

I stumbled upon an interesting problem. I have managed to reduce the problem to the following code:
boost::property_tree::ptree properties;
boost::property_tree::read_xml("Additional Dependencies\\properties.xml", properties);
xml:
<Properties>
<PictureGenerator>
<miniatureHeight>4</miniatureHeight>
<miniatureWidth>4</miniatureWidth>
<imageHeight>8</imageHeight>
<imageWidth>8</imageWidth>
<ImagePath>Additional Dependencies\</ImagePath>
<Miniatures>
<Image>0.bmp</Image>
<Image>1.bmp</Image>
<!--<Image>2.bmp</Image>
<Image>3.bmp</Image>
<Image>4.bmp</Image>-->
</Miniatures>
</PictureGenerator>
</Properties>
When i build the project in Release mode, everything runs perfectly.
In Debug mode I get the following error:
Unhandled exception at 0x779e8e19 in my_project.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000014.
I am using VS2010.
Upon further inspection the error is thrown in the read_xml_internal function while trying to create a vector from a basic_istream.
At first I thought that I gave the wrong path, but I works perfectly in Release mode.

Answer 1

I have found the source of the problem.
I have reproduced the same error with istream, and it turned out that I had a wrong property page set for Debug.
The problem was the property:
C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Libary as Multi-threaded
I have changed it to Multi-threaded Debug Dll and it works perfectly.