VS2005 Macro issue with clipboard.

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Dale - 04 Mar 2007 03:08 GMT

I have a couple macros that I have been using for some time with Visual
Studio 2005. Both do pretty close to the same thing; when I select some
private fields in a class, they both copy the selection to the clipboard,
write code to work with that selection, and then store the code in the
clipboard for pasting into the source file. One creates properties from the
selected fields and the other creates a constructor to initialize the
selected fields.

Tonight, when trying to run the macros, I get the following error message:

"Microsoft Visual Studio Macros Runtime Server has encountered a problem and
needs to close."

If I take the error message dialog's offer to debug, I find the following
System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException caused the issue:

"Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed."

Once the error occurs, I cannot even edit the macros. If I try to edit
them, I get an error that says the RPC server is not available.

If I switch to another already open instance of VS2005, I can open the macro
to edit. If I try to run the macro, I get the same sequence as before and
now cannot open the macro to edit.

Dale

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 05 Mar 2007 02:18 GMT

Hi Dale,

Is this issue reproducible using some of your macro code?

Basically such clipboard issue is because some other process has the
clipboard open; remember there's only one process could open the clipboard
at a time.

Please refer to following thread for more information on how to
troubleshooting such issue:

#Clipboard.Clear() problem in dotnet.languages.csharp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/managed/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.publi
c.dotnet.languages.csharp&tid=2f36330b-3ef6-41b1-a174-5b7b4524afac&cat=en-us
-msdnman&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Dale - 07 Mar 2007 03:21 GMT

I created the application for determining what has the clipboard locked.
When I rebooted, the problem went away and Windows sent about 5 or 6 error
reports to Microsoft about the VS 2005 macro service shutting down
unexpectedly.

I will have to wait until the problem reproduces to see what is causing it
but, based on what I have read elsewhere, it sounds like it will be Office
since I had been working in Word just before this started.

It seems bad that a single errant application can cause the clipboard to not
work for all applications.

Thanks for your help, Walter. I will post back if the problem reoccurs.

Dale

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 07 Mar 2007 08:45 GMT

Hi Dale,

Thank you for posting updated information. Please feel free to let me know
when the issue occurs again.

I think clipboard will have to work in this way since it's a global shared
resource, once an application is opening it, others will have to wait, :)

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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