Visual Studio 2008 macros and unhandled exception in explorer.exe

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Frank S - 24 Jan 2008 16:45 GMT

I have started using a macro in Visual Studio 2008 that works fine in Visual Studio 2005.

In VS2008, the macro works but sometimes causes the Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger to appear
with "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in explorer.exe[3460]."

The debugger indicates:

Unhandled exception at 0x0000000100023ceb in explorer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading
location 0x000000000000028c.

I wonder if this problem is related to the tray message that appears with VS2008 that explains how
to stop a macro?

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Regards,

Frank

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 25 Jan 2008 03:02 GMT

Hi Frank,

I think it's possible that some shell extensions are causing this issue.
You can try to use Autoruns
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) to disable
some non-Microsoft extensions and see if it helps. You can find shell
extensions in the "Explorer" tab of Autoruns. There's an option "Hide
Microsoft Entries" in menu "Options" to show only third party extensions.

Shell extensions are most in-process libraries loaded within explorer
process.

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

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