A few days ago I opened VS2012 just like I do every day and after getting the page where you select the project to open, VS2012 crashed. Restarting the computer, getting all latest Windows updates and playing with registry values did not help at all. See below for answer on how to fix this issue.
It turns out the problem is Internet Explorer 11. It turns out that installing IE11 is what caused VS2012 to crash and be useless. This will fix the issue:
You need to re-register ieproxy.dll - after this VS2012 started to work again.
32 bit systems:
regsvr ieproxy.dll
64 bit systems:
regsvr32 ieproxy.dll
This worked like a charm for me:
FIRSTLY: To minimize the potential loss of your personal environment, you should consider creating a backup of your environment using the Export Settings wizard, and the Import Settings wizard to restore the settings if and when needed.
Delete the contents from the following folders:
C:\Users\..\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation
C:\Users\..\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
C:\Users\..\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon
Go to the Visual Studio IDE folder in command prompt and Run the following command:
.\devenv.exe /resetuserdata from the Visual Studio IDE folder.
Typical location of Visual Studio IDE folder for 64 bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE
Typical location of Visual Studio IDE folder for 32 bit: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE
Reference: Microsoft's article- If you have problems with TFS or Visual Studio flush the user cache … or not?
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I have installed VS2013 and VS2015 on Windows 7.
I have an existing C++ Dll project that was building fine but now all of a sudden it wont build using VS2015 and gives me the error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'
From this post: fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib' I went looking for the kernel32.lib file and it is located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\x86
When I go to my Projects Properties-->Linker-->Input and select Macros I see that this path is indeed there:
My Platform Toolset is set to Visual Studio 2013 - Windows XP (v120_xp) which is what it always has been set to.
Why has my Project all of a sudden stopped building? What could have gone wrong?
I had this similar problem today with Visual Studio 2013 when I changed my VC++ Directories:
Project->Properties->VC++ Directories:
Include Directories
If the cause is some plug-in/extension that changes your props files, it may in consequence change the "Visual C++ Directories" settings of your project.
So, the solution that worked for me is described on my own answer Can't compile 64 bits Visual Studio 2010 projects, which I fully transcribe to here:
After I asked a colleague for help, we noticed, that even getting
clean builds of the projects from TFS, with overwrite option, the
Project's Configuration Properties > VC++ Directories on my computer
were always different from other computers.
Searching more we found the solution on the last post of Reset
include/lib path, which I will fully transcribe:
use "del %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user.props"
is not always the right way.
Better use "del %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user.props"
where the application data folder is normally placed in.
Then I've looked inside the contents of Microsoft.Cpp.x64.user.props
and I've seen that there were things added by Visual Leaks Detector.
Which is reasonable, as one month before, I did a memory leak analysis
using VLD.
So, I deleted the file and now everything compiles fine at 64bits!
I had to install the Visual C++ for Desktop Development.
Open Visual Studio Installer and go to Installed tab. Click on the Change Button on your installed Visual Studio Community Edition. -> On the Workloads Tab there should be a option Desktop Development with C++. Activate that option and modify the changes.
Afterwards it was working for me.
I had the same problem today. As it turned out somehow the SDK 10.0.15063.0 got installed on my system but without the Desktop C++ files. Selecting the SDK in the list of installed programs, doing a change install and there selecting the Desktop C++ options added the necessary files and now I can link again.
I got this error fatal error lnk1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'.
this error is getting because there is no path in VC++ directories.
To solve this probelem
open visual studio 2008
go to Tools-options-Projects and Solutions-VC++ directories-*
then at right corner select Library files
here you need to add path of kernel132.lib
In my case It is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib
Thank you.
I had this following upgrade of some projects from VS2013 to VS2017.
Original project had a manual modification to the "Library Directories" item under VC++ Directories in the project settings.
This meant it did not pick up changes from the upgrade.
Using the option will reset this to something that works (assuming the SDK is installed OK) provided anything other than the default is not needed of course. In my case it was trying to point at the v7.1 SDK but that was not installed for vs2017.
in vs 2019, just run the installer, click modify, and then in the individual components tab, remove windows 10 SDK. then again run the installer and add windows 10 sdk!
I had this similar problem today with Visual Studio 2017. My cause turned out to be a bad environment setting in NETFXSDKDir, specifically:
NETFXSDKDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1
It needed to have a value of:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\um\x86
I have a more detailed response here:
fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'
In VS 2022 I was trying to compile an old solution that originally ran in VS 2010 then in VS 2019. It continually gave me the "cannot find Kernel32.lib" error. I spent 8 hours trying everything, including everything on this page. What worked for me: Configuration Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Library Directories and "inherit from parent" (guessing this sets to defaults) fixed this for me. Also note: I'm using winsock and directinput.
After I save the changes of a solution and then remove an existing project, I'll get the following error message:
The operation could be completed. Not implemented.
Then I launched devenv.exe /Log and able to reproduce the problem and the errors are:
Extension will not be loaded because an extension with the same ID 'Microsoft.Windows.DevelopmentKit.Desktop' is already loaded at
C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT\EXTENSIONMANAGER\EXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS KITS\8.0\DESKTOP SDK\
C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT\EXTENSIONMANAGER\EXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS KITS\8.1\DESKTOP SDK\
Extension will not be loaded because an extension with the same ID 'Microsoft.WinJS' is already loaded at
C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT SDKS\WINDOWS\V8.1\EXTENSIONSDKS\MICROSOFT.WINJS.SHARED\VSIX\
C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT SDKS\WINDOWS\V8.0\EXTENSIONSDKS\MICROSOFT.WINJS.SHARED\VSIX\
It looks like it's trying to load two extensions but with different versions. I believe they are the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 8.1 but even if I launch VS 2012 with Admin, the Uninstall button is greyed out for me. I don't see them in the Add/Remove Programs either. So how can I get rid of this error?
A side note, I have both VS 2012 and VS 2013 installed and I had to do a repair on VS 2012 after VS 2013 was installed.
I had the same problem with Microsoft Windows Development Kit: two errors every time at Visual Studio start with description in the
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ActivityLog.xml
Sometimes (I think every time) Visual Studio Updater or Installer (when you try to install other version of VS) does not remove already installed version of a VS module.
In my case I had the second WDK with older version but installed after the newer one. I manually uninstalled the older version of Microsoft Windows Development Kit and problem with Visual Studio was solved.
Is it possible to create XNA games using Visual Studio 2012?
Yes, it's possible with a bit of tweak. Unfortunately, you still have to have VS 2010 installed.
First, install XNA Game Studio 4.0. The easiest way is to install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 which contains everything required.
Copy the XNA Game Extension from VS 10 to VS 11 by opening a command prompt 'as administrator' and executing the following (may vary if not x64 computer with defaults paths) :
xcopy /e "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0"
Run notepad as administrator then open extension.vsixmanifest in the destination directory just created.
Upgrade the Supported product version to match the new version (or duplicate the whole VisualStudio element and change the Version attribute, as #brainslugs83 said in comments):
<SupportedProducts>
<VisualStudio Version="11.0">
<Edition>VSTS</Edition>
<Edition>VSTD</Edition>
<Edition>Pro</Edition>
<Edition>VCSExpress</Edition>
<Edition>VPDExpress</Edition>
</VisualStudio>
</SupportedProducts>
Don't forget to clear/delete your cache in %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions.
You may have to run the command to tells Visual Studio that new extensions are available. If you see an 'access denied' message, try launching the console as an administrator.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup
This has been tested for Windows Games, but not WP7 or Xbox games.
[Edit] According Jowsty, this works also for XBox 360 Games.
[Edit for Visual Studio 2013 & Windows 8.1] See here for documentation on installing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 on Windows 8.1. Use VS version number 12.0 in place of 11.0 for all of these steps, and they will still work correctly.
On codeplex was released new XNA Extension for Visual Studio 2012/2013. You can download it from: https://msxna.codeplex.com/releases
I found another issue, for some reason if the extensions are cached in the local AppData folder, the XNA extensions never get loaded.
You need to remove the files extensionSdks.en-US.cache and extensions.en-US.cache from the %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions folder. These files are rebuilt the next time you launch
If you need access to the Visual Studio startup log to debug what's happening, run devenv.exe /log command from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE directory (assuming you are on a 64 bit machine). The log file generated is located here:
%AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml
There seems to be some confusion over how to get this set up for the Express version specifically. Using the Windows Desktop (WD) version of VS Express 2012, I followed the instructions in Steve B's and Rick Martin's answers with the modifications below.
In step 2 rather than copying to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0", copy to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpressExtensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0"
In step 4, after making the changes also add the line <Edition>WDExpress</Edition> (you should be able to see where it makes sense)
In step 5, replace devenv.exe with WDExpress.exe
In Rick Martin's step, replace "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions" with "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WDExpress\11.0\Extensions"
I haven't done a lot of work since then, but I did manage to create a new game project and it seems fine so far.
anyone ever run into this issue with VS 2012?
I've tried resetting my development environment back to default and that did not resolve anything. This is really frustrating.
I had the same problem in Visual studio 2011. I fixed it using /setup.
I'm still in the dark about the cause. DevEpxress? ReSharper? VSCommands? The combination?
The fix:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE>devenv.exe /safemode /setup
after that I started Visual Studio:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE>devenv
I just resolved the issue by deleting the devenv.CTM
From the path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\1033
Hope this will help.
Seems answer to this a bit deeper than people says above. Need to delete registry key and the config file and perform application reset to apply solid fix:
(Paths are question of version ran, but I'm sure who ever reads this can figure what path their installations are at.)
File: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\<version>\12.0\<countrycode>\WDExpress.CTM
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\<version>\<vernum>_Config\Menus
Express: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio <vernum>.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpress.exe" /resetuserdata
Other Versions: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio <vernum>.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetuserdata
This seems to fix the issue permanently (used 60 mins, lol, what a waste).
Open cmd in admin mode
Change dir to dev instal path
Run below command . ( but it will reset your initial settings , like c# preference setting on starting – that’s not a big issue I think )
Devenv.exe /resetuserdata
I am trying to do some perf. analysis on a piece of code that is dog slow... I start VS2012 Premium as Admin, load my solution and the go to 'Analyze - Launch Performance Wizard' Immediately I am shown a dialog that says:
Could not load file or assembly 'VSPerfReader.DLL' or one of its dependencies.
Awesome! The file is located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools
I can start Windows Performance Analyzer (standalone) from 'start' just fine btw.
Had the same issue, adding the following line to my system path variable and restarting visual studio did the trick.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools
Credit to Ade Miller in the comment for the solution.
Same instructions as Ryan Taylor above but with a visual. My issue was with Visual Studio 2013 (after installing VS2015 SP1). The value I entered the new path variable is below.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools