RE: application failed to initialize - Visual Studio 2005 with or with



Hi Rob,

Yes, I see your concern over this issue. Actually, I have seen more than 1
customers complaining the lack of information from OS loader.

I have contacted the development team internal for feedback this issue, and
below is comment based on the discussion:

What version of OS do you have this problem? The error message we see in
the explorer error dialog is the standard error message for Win32 error
SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX. Explorer does not understand this error, so it shows a
generic error message. OS loader will log the failure details to the system
event log with source SideBySide. However, the details is still not enough
under WinXP. In Windows Vista, our development team has awared of this
requirement and added more details to make the troubleshooting easier. Our
developer Junfeng Zhang has written a blog entry for this issue:
"Diagnosing SideBySide failures"
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/04/14/576314.aspx

To troubleshoot loader problem under WinXP, I would recommend Process
Monitor from the link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx

You may take care of the file system records with "File Not Found" result.
If you are not familiar with using Process Monitor for troubleshooting, I
highly recommend Mark Russinovich's online tech talk below:
"Advanced Windows Troubleshooting with Sysinternals Process Monitor"
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=346

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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