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SOLVED: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Sep 27th, 2013 at 9:28pm
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windows 7 ultimate
visual studio 2012 ultimate
latest versions, all updates installed.

1. For the first time downloaded and installed latest Visual Micro Sep 11, 2013
2. Started visual studio
3. Clicked on "trial"
4. Activation progress bar appearred
5. Visual Studio crashed
6. Restarted VS, disabled all 3rd party add-ons and extensions, restarted again
7. Tried trial again - "too many activations"
8. Bought a license (naive idiot)
9. VS crashing when trying to activate with purchased key
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Re: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Reply #1 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 10:19pm
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Hi Anri,

Thanks for buying the license and sorry you are having this problem and thanks for such a clear report.

If you don't get this working your money will be happily refunded.

With the key you purchased our server registered 6 activations for the same machine. This means that a lot of the activation process has completed.

There are many hundreds of people who activate the product every week yet this is the third report we have had of a problem like this. It is puzzling but I have a few questions:-

1) Are you activating via tools>options>visual micro with all project/solutions closed? or when attempting to switch on (Micro Debug) via a projects properties?

2) If via tools>options then are you pasting the key directly into the license key property or by clicking the button on the license key property that open the "License Key/Start Trial/Buy" dialog?

3) What does it say in the property below the License Key in Tools>Options? The license status?

Thanks very much
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Re: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Reply #2 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 10:27pm
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Answering you question: i tried all the combinations you listed.
I don't remember license status, but it was not "REGISTERED"

But i found the culprit Smiley 
I had Windows Event Log service disabled (GTA IV had issues with it) - after i enabled and started it, activation worked fine!
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Re: SOLVED: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Reply #3 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 10:43pm
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Great. Can you please let me know the name of the service so that we can see where the crash would happen and how it might be raised as a nicer error.

Thanks very much

EDIT: ignore that request. I see it is the windows event log service. thanks
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Re: SOLVED: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Reply #4 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 10:46pm
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Service Name: eventlog
Display Name: Windows Event Log
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 10:49pm
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Yes thanks, I was being thick and didn't read your post properly. It's typical that writing a trace message causes a crash after so much other stuff has happened without issue   Smiley
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Re: SOLVED: Visual Studio crashes on activation
Reply #6 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 11:01pm
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With Windows Event Log it is really typical, i even had sql server or visual studio updates and service packs silently failing with event log disabled. I mean, come on, Microsoft.
  
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