I've just tried installing Visual Studio 2015 RTM on my Windows 8.1 computer. The installation proceeded without any problems, but afterwards I had multiple issues:
- Visual Studio 2015 itself wouldn't launch: it would crash with a Debug dialog on startup.
- Visual Studio 2013, which was previously working, also started crashing on startup.
- Event Viewer wouldn't load, but no error message was shown. If I launched MMC and tried adding it as a snap-in, it would crash with a Debug dialog.
In the end, I had to use System Restore to go back to the point immediately before installing VS 2015. Everything seems to be back to normal now.
Update: I spoke too soon – even after the system restore I started getting crashes. In the end I re-installed my OS (this was before I'd seen the answers below).
If I look in the Event Viewer at the times when I was trying to launch Event Viewer previously, I'm seeing a .Net Runtime error from each occasion with the message
Application: mmc.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 00007FFD67E94745 (00007FFD67CC0000) with exit code 80131506.
For the times when I tried to launch Visual Studio I'm seeing an Application Error with the details
Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 14.0.23107.0, time stamp: 0x559b7ead
Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.6.81.0, time stamp: 0x5584e56f
Exception code: 0x80131506
Fault offset: 0x002cdc9a
Faulting process ID: 0x2108
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0c3a28aeed79f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Report ID: c8ca7216-2f95-11e5-80de-002564d97fd2
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
I'm also seeeing a .Net Runtime error
Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 748DDC9A (74610000) with exit code 80131506.
Has anybody else seen this and been able to fix it?
Best Answer
So the workaround to this issue as described in the link at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3065367 is as follows:
Delete the registry key AltJit found at HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/.NETframework/AltJit
Additionally, make sure that the COMPLUS_AltJit environment variable is not set.