Monday, October 13, 2014

how to solve Microsoft visual studio 2005 has stopped working in windows 64 bit

Problem: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 has stopped working


Everything was fine early but later it started giving such error when I opened any projects. Even opening visual studio application gave me the same error which indicated the APPCRASH of devenv.exe.
I went through the internet resources and gave me several solutions of running devenv/safemode or devenv/resetsettings but nothing went fruitful as indicated.

Solution

finally I came to the internet resources which illustrated that the above problem was the kind of crash that occurs in 64 bit operating system as VS2005 wasn't originally designed to run on such OS.
 Thus I was recommended to download the service pack SP1 form here and re run the application. I did download the SP1 from here and installed it.

Voilla! problem solved. Now I am able to run the application without error.