Visual Studio hangs after WWF 1.2 is installed

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Visual Studio hangs after WWF 1.2 is installed

I've just installed WWF 1.2 beta, and now Visual Studio (RTM) appears to hang in an endless loop on startup.

I've installed the Windows SDK, WWF platform components, VS WWF extenstions, as well as WinFX and VS WinFX extensions, all in one go.

The only visible sign of an error I can find (apart from VS now being broken :) are some entries in the Application event log (something is complaining about a missing assembly, Microsoft.ReportingServices.QueryDesigners; I'm guessing these originate from NGen as they are dated after the event log entries reporting a successful installation).

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Visual Studio hangs after WWF 1.2 is installed

  • dhToday

    I've installed VSTO, WPF and WCF (the WinFX addon). Additionally, I have AnkhSVN (for the Subversion source control system) and TestDriven.NET (for unit testing) installed. I have tried disabling (albeit not uninstalling) these to no effect.

    I did have beta2 installed previously on this machine, but uninstalled according to guidelines and didn't have any problems (nor any warnings when installing the RTM). I've also installed SQL Server 2005 Express and the management tools from the developer edition. I also still have VS 2003 on the machine.

    The System.Workflow assemblies all have the correct version. EnvDTE.dll and EnvDTE80.dll both have file version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200).

    And last, yes I did follow the instructions :)

  • Mohammad Iqubal MSFT

    The problem has been isolated to the "VS 2005 Extensions for WWF Beta 1.2" package. If I remove it, VS 2005 is able to start up normally. Repair or reinstall did not help.

  • Bratomat

    What other Visual Studio add-ins do you have   what options do you install Visual Studio with Did this machine previously have any Beta's of .NET Framework 2.0 installed   Any Beta's of Visual Studio 2005 Did or does it have older versions of Visual Studio installed Did you follow the WinFX install instructions on www.windowsworkflow.net

    Also, check the assembly versions for the 3 workflow assemblies and EnvDTE in c:\windows\assembly by right clicking and getting the file vesions. Should be 3.0.3203.56

    Regards,
    Paul

  • jamesh1971

    I'd suggest that you try uninstalling the two third party add-ons and reinstall Windows Workflow Foundation. Let us know if that makes WF work on your machine.

    Regards,
    Paul

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