Fix available: ASP.Net MVC RC Crash in a Windows Azure Cloud Service Project
For those of you that have been unfortunate enough to experience the VS crash when using the ASP.Net MVC RC in a Windows Azure Cloud Service project, I have good news!
The CLR team has distributed a hotfix. The KB Article number is 963676 and is posted at https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=963676
The hotfix isn't specific to the MVC crash, it solves some crashes in the WPF Designer as well.
You can download the hotfix here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0
- For Vista/Windows Server 2008 32 bit: Use Windows6.0-KB963676-x86.msu
- For Vista/Windows Server 2008 64 bit: Use Windows6.0-KB963676-x64.msu
[update 8/27/2010] - This hotfix has been superceded: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/981574/ and unfortunately it appears we no longer host it on Connect so you'll have to contact Microsoft support, see the KB article for more information.
Comments
Anonymous
February 27, 2009
If you've seen VS crash while using the MVC RC in a Windows Azure Cloud Service project -- check outAnonymous
February 28, 2009
Great to have a fix so quickly, and in time for the weekend when I really have time to play with my extracurricular projects and Azure.Anonymous
February 28, 2009
What's the difference between the .exe and .msu files in the download? Perhaps this is obvious to people experienced with Windows, but I'm coming from the UNIX world.Anonymous
February 28, 2009
I have more questions about this. Are we still supposed to use the project from your post back in October? Won't we run into problems because MVC.NET has been updated a few times since then? Also, what's the best way to use the October project? I'm new to VS, so I'm sure this must be known by most. If I unzip the file into my VS projects directory, I get this complaint when opening it: "The project location is not trusted: C:Usersmh415DocumentsVisual Studio 2008ProjectsCloudService1CloudService1CloudService1_WebRole Running the application may result in security exceptions when it attempts to perform actions which require full trust. Click OK to ignore and continue."Anonymous
February 28, 2009
@mh415 - msu files update Vista/Windows Server 2008 where the .Net Framework is a part of the OS. The exe files update an OS where the .Net Framework is not a part of the OS -- i.e. Windows XP. Since the Windows Azure Tools only support Vista/Windows Server 2008 -- I made it more clear in the post about which hotfix folks should be using.Anonymous
February 28, 2009
@mh415 -- we've seen some isolated issues with "the location is not trusted" and so far they've all stemmed from some kind of issue with the Windows account -- if you create another administrator account and try again, you shouldn't have any problem. Please let me know if that resolves your issue. One situation where that message is valid is if you are trying to open or create a project in Visual Studio in a directory that requires admin elevation or is a network location.Anonymous
February 28, 2009
@mh415 - About using the project from the post back in October -- I'll try to find some time to update it. If you create a new project and follow the steps to modify it, you will be fine.Anonymous
March 01, 2009
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March 02, 2009
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March 02, 2009
  I have been fighting some a crash with visual studio 2008.  The IDE would crash without aAnonymous
March 03, 2009
If you’re encountered an issue where Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes silently whenever you try to open a web form or master page (which by default will open the design view), there is a hotfix that will likely solve the problem.  I ran into this recentlyAnonymous
March 08, 2009
[Updated for ASP.Net MVC RC 2] Before you get started with ASP.Net MVC and Windows Azure – please installAnonymous
March 08, 2009
[Updated for MVC RC 2] Before you get started with ASP.Net MVC and Windows Azure – please install thisAnonymous
March 08, 2009
ASP.Net MVC RC2 released a few days back and I've already gotten a number of requests to update the MVCAnonymous
March 15, 2009
Is there any ETA on a version of this hotfix for Windows 7 Beta? Right now it won't install and there doesn't appear to be a way to run a .msu file in compatibility mode.Anonymous
March 16, 2009
My operating system is windows 7 beta, i can't install the hotfix, what should i do?Anonymous
March 16, 2009
@TroyGoode and @terryso -- I went back and looked at some mails from the folks on the CLR team, QFEs are rolled forward so Win7 will get the fix in a future public release.Anonymous
March 18, 2009
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April 08, 2009
Today during work I had a very annoying issue - whenever I've run the project unit test suite (usingAnonymous
April 26, 2009
Strādājot ar VS 2008 SP1 un kopā ar kādu no .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 iespējām (LINQ to SQL, WPF, EntityAnonymous
May 02, 2009
Is this Hotfix required for Windows 7 RC?Anonymous
May 04, 2009
This hotfix is included in the win7 rc.Anonymous
May 20, 2009
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May 20, 2009
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August 23, 2010
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August 27, 2010
pAnoNymous - thanks, yes the KB was superceded. I updated this post and you'll have to contact support to get the patch.Anonymous
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