Attempting to cut or copy (selecting the code) even a small amounts of text in Visual Studio 2013 causes the error "insufficient memory to continue execution of the program.

Is there any workaround/patch like for the VS2010?

Hi
I am trying to debug a project for Window Phone 8.
I got an error - Exception of type 'Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.PlatformNotFoundException' was thrown.
So I searched for a solution. One solution recommended first to have Hyper-V enabled. So I did a search for Hyper-V, and found this. I followed the instructions, but found that my system does not seem to have Hyper-V (I am running on Windows 8.1 64bit).

I am not sure if I need Hyper-V to test for Windows Phone 8, but I would like to know how I can Install it, and or, what I would need to test a Windows Phone 8 app on my PC. Thanks

Hey,

I'm getting really frustrated by Visual Studio 2013 on my laptop. It is constantly hanging when I'm working on my projects. They work fine for C#, Windows Web Forms etc, but the problem seems to be just for my ASP.NET projects.

Whenever I attempt to open the design view or master template file, my Visual Studio will hang, and I'll have to wait up to 15 minutes for it to finally respond. I also noted that it's only happening on this laptop, and the specifications are quite well - everything else runs well, except ASP.NET solutions.

I tried a all 3 troubleshoots below:

1) Repairing Visual Studio

2) Clean the WebSiteCache folder (you may find it at C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebSiteCache)

3) Clean the "Temporary ASP.NET Files" folder (find it at C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files)

And VS did seem less hangy in the beginning, but it's somehow back to the old problem, even after I've cleared those files.

Can anyone help? I really need to complete my assignments, but Visual Studio isn't helping! And I can't afford to wait till I reach home (to use my Desktop - which doesn't have that problem at all) and please let me know if there's anything I can do to facilitate the troubleshooting.

Thanks!

hi,

i have an issue when trying to add firebird entty framework package in vs 2015 rc, this worked  just fine with vs 2013

here the error log

Attempting to gather dependencies information for package 'EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2' with respect to project targeting '.NETFramework, Version=v4.5.2'
Attempting to resolve dependencies for package 'EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2' with DependencyBehavior 'Lowest'
Resolving actions to install package 'EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2'
Resolved actions to install package 'EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2'
For adding package 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to project 'tmpapp' that targets 'net452'.
For adding package 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to project 'tmpapp' that targets 'net452'.
Adding package 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to folder 'C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages'
Added package 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to folder 'C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages'
Added reference 'EntityFramework.Firebird' to project 'tmpapp'.
Added package 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to 'packages.config'
For adding package 'EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2' to project 'tmpapp' that targets 'net452'.
Executing script file 'C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.Firebird.4.6.2.0\tools\install.ps1'...
Exception calling "LoadFrom" with "1" argument(s): "Invalid directory on URL."
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:780 char:5+     $utilityAssembly = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom((Join-Path $ToolsP ...+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:781 char:5
+     $dispatcher = $utilityAssembly.CreateInstance(+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

Exception calling "CreateInstanceFrom" with "8" argument(s): "Invalid directory on URL."
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:809 char:5+     $domain.CreateInstanceFrom(+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

Exception calling "LoadFrom" with "1" argument(s): "Invalid directory on URL."
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:780 char:5+     $utilityAssembly = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom((Join-Path $ToolsP ...+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:781 char:5
+     $dispatcher = $utilityAssembly.CreateInstance(+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

Exception calling "CreateInstanceFrom" with "8" argument(s): "Invalid directory on URL."
At C:\Dev\WPF\Projects\Cardio\CardioRC\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.2\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:809 char:5+     $domain.CreateInstanceFrom(+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

Successfully installed 'EntityFramework.Firebird 4.6.2' to tmpapp.
========== Finished ==========

any help is welcome

I am making a report using RDLC. I have made the connection with Sybase database (using ODBC) and when I add a new DataSet in report then it says:

The database is new or does not contain any objects.....

Connection to database is successful and it contain many tables and views but they are not being displayed.

Tried again with Sybase OLEDB provider but same issue.

Even the Server Explorer where you can see database servers added is not showing any tables and views. I read somewhere it is because there may be no primary keys defined in any table so I created a new table with primary key but issue remains the same.

Any idea why? 

So, umm... help ?

Win7.1 x64, VS2010 Professional and VS2013 Express Web edition are both installed. Has been working fine since forever.

I'm not 100% what's kicked this off, but all my working web applications are now throwing errors in the IDE. The source files have NOT been changed, and I can confirm this in SVN.

So, open a project, open the default.aspx, find an ASPX button on it, double-click it to see the code-behind, and it comes up with "Could not complete the action". Both VS2010 and VS2013 exhibit this exact same behaviour.

Right-click on the page and do "view code", and the page comes up. Every piece of code that references a control on the page has a line under it and the Error list goes through the roof:

Error2 'lblStatus' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.C:\inetpub\wwwroot\QuotaManager\QuotaManager\Default.aspx.vb4113 http://localhost/QuotaManager/

lblStatus label is clearly in the source code, as is every other control displaying the same error. I've seen this in the past when the headers get mangled in the <%@ Page/> directives, but again - these files/projects have NOT changed.

The only thing I can think of that changed* is I installed Nuget as I read it was a nice easy way to reference the Powershell System Automation libraries (I can never remember where they are), so I did that. The problem has been around since after that, but this may be a red herring.

I'm thinking some component has been registered at the wrong level, and that's why both IDEs are screwed with working code. Oh yeah... and despite the 80-odd errors, the solution builds and runs fine.

If I create a brand new project, it works fine. But again.. my existing project have NOT changed.

Any help?

Thanks

AW

* https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Management.Automation

I seem to have created a problem in the Visual Studio platform while creating and importing custom templates.

When running Visual studio:

The application repeatedly stalls and has to reloaded.

There is insufficient memory and am not able to run project applications

This started as a minor annoyance and has become rather critical to the performance of VS. 

In a nutshell, VS has become unstable.

I believe that the problems described are a result of Custom templates I imported into my projects.  This based on the fact that all the problems I am having began after the installation/import of a custom windows form template. 

I have uninstalled VS 2013 and reinstalled the software.  I then created a new VB project/Solution.  I then opened the Add New Item window to add a form to the project and Lo and Behold there to be selected was the malignant custom template waiting to start on me again.

I gave up there.  So how can I get rid of this and get VS back to where it should be?

gwboolean

Hello, 

I'm new to MSVS 2013 and had a question as I ramp up. What is the difference between Solution files and Project files? Is there a good example or demo that you can recommend of how to do my first helloWorld C++ program or windows application?

Any help or insight is much appreciated. 

All the best.

I am using O&O Defrag. I will be using "defragmentation software" to refer to this, as well as other defrag softwares others may use. Reason is that there's a defrag software called "Defraggler", and I may accidentally correlate to that.

I wanted to know if Visual Studio 2013 uses up a lot of CPU when programming and debugging said program? If not, does it uses up a lot of Hard Drive Disk Cache performances? I have witnessed a few scenarios where the defragmentation software will slow down dramatically, down to a crawl, when it is moving/reordering files around on the hard disk.

I am not sure if Visual Studio 2013 has to do with slowing down the defragmentation software, but the possibility of locking files because of Visual Studio 2013 may be a contributing factor? There's so many questions I wanted to ask about these scenarios, and would like to know if it's "safe" or "acceptable" to develop/program while the defragmentation software is running. 

Note that there's nothing wrong with my computer, Windows, Visual Studio 2013, and the defragmentation software. It's just that I can't find resources with discussions about this.

After Successful Installation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, whenever i try to launch the application, it crashes by giving a message "Microsoft Visual Studio has stopped Working". I have tried installing this several times now. Please view the screenshot. 

After spending long hours for the same i have updated my video drivers but unable to solve the problem. Please help.

All I did was copy a .rc file from VS2010 into VS2013 and remove 1 string constant.

VS2013 has cleverly substituted the numerical constant in field 1 of all my bitmap controls :-

CONTROL   472,IDC_STATIC,"Static",SS_BITMAP,30,155,86,35

for its equivalent Label value in resource.h (IDB_30MPH) plus a few other changes to get :-

CONTROL    IDB_30MPH,IDC_STATIC,65,42,46,43,NOT WS_GROUP

The compiler now gives the error :-

RC2108 expected numerical dialog constant

There is a #include <resource.h> at the top of the .rc file

I am using the release version of VS2013 and can easily edit the .rc file BUT SOMETHING IS NOT QUITE RIGHT IN THE RESOURCE EDITOR/COMPILER

The case:

I have Visual Basic 2013 Ultimate running on two machines viz. 1x Win7 laptop and 1x Win8.1 desktop. Recently I placed all my projects on a Netgear Readynas and run them from there. On both developing machines I now have to hit the Start button twice each time I want to debug my code. The error I get is partly English and partly Dutch (local language setting). The english notification reads "The operation could not be completed." The free translated Dutch part says: "The process has no admittance to the file because it is in use by another process". When clicking OK and hitting the Start button again the debug runs flawlessly. I am sure it must be some timeout setting but I don't which one. Has anyone an idea where I could find a setting that I might change?

I prefer to see the Output window after a build, and not the error list. I've set the relevant options in VS2013: I've disabled "Always show Error List if build finishes with errors" and I've enabled "Show Output Window when build starts"

This was all working as expected until about a week ago, when suddenly the Error List started appearing after every build, even after successful builds. I did not deliberately change any VS settings recently. I've tried switching the options back and forth, but nothing changes. Even more annoying, the error list now appears at when the build starts, not just when it ends.

I have VS2013 installed on several machines and this has only changed on one of them (my main one, unfortunately), even though I do have it set to sync settings.

Does anyone have any idea what might have caused this behavior to change? any help is greatly appreciated, I know this sounds like a very small thing but it's really bugging me!

We use the VS2013 Update 2 DevEnv.com from a command line, to build a product master sln, where periodic build attempts error out the build BEFORE the first project in the sln is built.  This happens on either a BUILD or REBUILD build attempt.

The product master sln contains a mix of C#.NET, VB.NET, and C++ projects (just over 500 projects in total), where the command use to build all the projects is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com" "ProductMaster.sln" /rebuild "release"

Before the first project is built, the build errors out with a build log showing what appears to be a build sequencing dump for all contained projects, where most of the contained C++ projects include an "extra" diagnostic line that states "The operation cannot be completed because BeginBuild has not yet been called.".

Here is a small example of a devenv build log, showing the problem I just described.  We recently upgraded the sln and all the projects from VS2010 SP1 to VS2013 Update 2.  So we are not sure this failure is related to the upgrade or not, just thought I would mention.  You will see the extra diagnostic lines all relate to C++ projects that are part of the build.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Version 12.0.30501.0.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
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For historical reasons mainly, and in a couple of cases functional reasons, we have a few places where multiple visual studio project files exist in a filesystem directory.  The NuGet integration gets horribly confused and ends up corrupting the projects (leaving orphaned xml elements) when you make changes, including stepping to a new version of a package.

Everywhere else VS associates a file with a project the name of the file incorporates the name of the project file; eg the .user files, and this setup has been working since VC6.

I don't see any indication that the name or location can be overridden.  An item is created so the packages.config file gets displayed in the tree view but it doesn't seem plausible that the integration is picking that up; it has no unique-ifying attributes.

The historical situation was that a very large project was broken up by making multiple copies of the project file and deleting subsets of the source from each, leaving them disjoint but in one folder.  I can reorganize that; it won't be pleasant but it's a finite task.

The functional situation has to do with the desire to product a comprehensive product as the result of building a solution; there are some pieces of code that have to be built in more than one configuration to make that happen but there's no way to associate more than one configuration of any given project with one solution-level configuration.  Hence, multiple project files for one folder full of code.  I suppose I can make two subfolders and push the project files down a level there as well.  Sigh.

My question here is simply this: is there a mechanism for managing the name/location of the packages.config file associated with a project file?

Stephen W. Nuchia StatSoft, Inc. Tulsa, Oklahoma USA

This is a copy of a question I initially posed on stackoverflow. After the investigations now folded into question below it became fairly apparent that the likely cause is a bug in Visual Studio. Can it be fixed?

In Visual Studio 2013 it is possible to view multiple elements of a C array using a watch like p,10000 (where p is a double * for example).

In the example below I show a screenshot of part of such an array as seen in the watch window and the same part of the array as CTRL-C copied and CTRL-V pasted into a text editor. Note that from element 25 onwards the copy/pasted values are not in line with those in the watch window (which are correct).



        [20]    1.0945579725021715    double
        [21]    0.99979213435791758    double
        [22]    1.0971002689671798    double
        [23]    0.99977802981060826    double
        [24]    1.1002739126009620    double
        [25]    0.99964664435140704    double
        [26]    1.1054689877466559    double
        [27]    0.99963245464284955    double
        [28]    1.1002149405804762    double
        [29]    0.99961125488418856    double
        [30]    1.0956742333763470    double

So far in my experiments I tend to see the first few values and the last few values are copied correctly leaving a middle section of the array which is incorrect. It does not always go wrong. Often it works for the first array inspected but goes wrong for the subsequent ones. Also when it goes wrong it seems that copy/pasting the values a second time sometimes leads to a correct result. It appears that the incorrect numbers are generally the previous values of some of the elements of the array - what is copied to clipboard is a mixture of the array's current and previous contents. The arrays I'm seeing this with are 2000-plus elements long.

This is suggestive of an incorrectly-invalidated (i.e. sometimes only partially updated) copy of the data being used in Visual Studio's implementation of the copying to clipboard. My experiments strongly suggest that elements in the copy of the data rendered to clipboard are updated if and only if those elements (or sufficiently "nearby" elements - it appears there could be a "paging block size" involved), have been shown on screen. In particular scrolling through the array a page at a time seems to cause copying to work correctly while flicking from the top of the array to the bottom of it using HOME and END keys does not lead to the the middle section of the array being updated in the copy which then gets rendered to clipboard.

Indeed if one sets up multiple watches on the same array one can get multiple answers, for example this is the data copied to clipboard after hitting the same breakpoint three times. The first time the breakpoint is hit I copy all the data and it all gets copied to clipboard correctly. The second time is patchy. Crucially I then scrolled down about 25% of the way through the watch window, enough to inject the yellow data into what ends up on the clipboard. I then returned to the start of the watch window and continued execution until the third time the breakpoint is hit. I then selected all the data in the watch window and copied it using CTRL-A CTRL-C. The result is that the data in pink is from the first time the breakpoint was hit. The data in yellow is from the second time and the unhighlighted data is actually correct. Note that elements 0 and 1 of the pink data are even out of line with the summary of the array just above them! I have omitted elements 2-497 and 503-997 for brevity.



Having used various VC++ versions from 6 onwards I have not previously seen such behaviour and have not immediately been able to find a reference to it on the web.

If one is relying on this functionality when debugging something complex one can scratch one's head wondering about the strange numbers for ages before realising one is being misled.

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013, Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4.

Has anyone else seen this and does anyone know more about it or know of a fix or workaround for it?

I have a family of custom controls, derived from Windows Forms controls.  What I'd like to do (for each new control) is to set the ToolboxBitmap attribute to be a slight variant of the inherited one.  That is, if I inherit from, say, system.windows.forms.button, the toolboxbitmap will by default be that of a normal button - but I'd like to change this slightly to be distinct, e.g., add a red border around it.

My question: how can I get ahold of the standard controls' toolbox bitmaps?  Once I have them I can make minor changes, and then specify that my new custom controls use my modified bitmaps.

I've poked around with no luck; thought they might even be 'resources' in the Visual Studio .exe (devenv.exe), but they're not there.  (I may be reduced to doing a screen capture of the Toolbox, but that seems a  last resort).