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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 however at the time of this writing, the article is not posted at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=963676 -- although this will be the final destination.

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
Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:55 PM by jnak

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Cloud Computing Tools Team said:

If you've seen VS crash while using the MVC RC in a Windows Azure Cloud Service project -- check out

# February 27, 2009 8:56 PM

mh415 said:

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.

# February 28, 2009 1:23 PM

mh415 said:

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.

# February 28, 2009 2:46 PM

mh415 said:

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:\Users\mh415\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\CloudService1\CloudService1\CloudService1_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."

# February 28, 2009 4:40 PM

jnak said:

@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.

# February 28, 2009 5:45 PM

jnak said:

@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.

# February 28, 2009 5:49 PM

jnak said:

@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.

# February 28, 2009 5:51 PM

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# March 1, 2009 3:51 PM

Cloudy in Seattle : Fix available: ASP.Net MVC RC Crash in a Windows Azure Cloud Service Project - DotNetBurner said:

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# March 2, 2009 3:16 PM

Eric Hexter said:

  I have been fighting some a crash with visual studio 2008.  The IDE would crash without a

# March 2, 2009 10:39 PM

Steve Smith's Blog said:

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 recently

# March 3, 2009 12:31 PM

Cloudy in Seattle said:

[Updated for ASP.Net MVC RC 2] Before you get started with ASP.Net MVC and Windows Azure – please install

# March 8, 2009 10:03 PM

Cloudy in Seattle said:

[Updated for MVC RC 2] Before you get started with ASP.Net MVC and Windows Azure – please install this

# March 8, 2009 11:08 PM

Cloudy in Seattle said:

ASP.Net MVC RC2 released a few days back and I've already gotten a number of requests to update the MVC

# March 8, 2009 11:48 PM

TroyGoode said:

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.

# March 15, 2009 4:36 PM

terryso said:

My operating system is windows 7 beta, i can't install the hotfix, what should i do?

# March 16, 2009 11:17 PM

jnak said:

@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.

# March 17, 2009 12:09 AM

ccBoy's WebLog said:

ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/03/16/ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp1-now-available-for-download.aspx

# March 18, 2009 10:52 PM

Helper Code said:

Today during work I had a very annoying issue - whenever I've run the project unit test suite (using

# April 8, 2009 8:39 AM

Valdis Iljuconoks said:

Strādājot ar VS 2008 SP1 un kopā ar kādu no .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 iespējām (LINQ to SQL, WPF, Entity

# April 27, 2009 4:19 AM

mh415 said:

Is this Hotfix required for Windows 7 RC?

# May 2, 2009 7:40 PM

jnak said:

This hotfix is included in the win7 rc.

# May 4, 2009 11:25 AM

Blake Niemyjski said:

We released CodeSmith 5.1 with the new requirements of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 . One of our

# May 20, 2009 11:05 AM

Blake Niemyjski said:

We released CodeSmith 5.1 with the new requirements of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 . One of our

# May 20, 2009 1:37 PM
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