{"id":823,"date":"2009-02-16T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2009-02-16T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:40:13","slug":"visual-studio-net-2008-freeze-on-opening-a-setup-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/823","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio .NET 2008 freeze on opening a setup project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I faced an annoying problem with a freeze of Visual Studio opening a solution with a Setup Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/472\">I found that the problem was related to setup projects<\/a> (<em>.vdproj<\/em>) that time and it was something with Visual Studio update, but I was of an opinion that Visual Studio .NET 2008 has problems opening projects created by version 2005. Compatibility or something&#8230; however the problem appeared that it cannot even create a new Setup Project with again a freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/vssetup\/thread\/9a0b3699-7109-4ac4-bd77-3efc8b841c27\/\">a hint on MSDN Forums<\/a>, and although the solution\/workaround was not detailed enough, it worked for me from the first guess. Here it goes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start Component Services (<em>dcomcnfg<\/em>) from command line<\/li>\n<li>Right-click My Computer, and click Properties:<a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image001.png\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-824\" title=\"Component Services, My Computer, Properties\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image001-300x219.png\" alt=\"Component Services, My Computer, Properties\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image001-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image001.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the popped up window uncheck additional security box:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image002.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-825\" title=\"My Computer Properties\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image002-253x300.png\" alt=\"My Computer Properties\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image002-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image002.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It appears to be sufficient for the Visual Studio .NET 2008 to start loading <em>.vdproj<\/em> projects again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I faced an annoying problem with a freeze of Visual Studio opening a solution with a Setup Project. I found that the problem was related to setup projects (.vdproj) that time and it was something with Visual Studio update, but I was of an opinion that Visual Studio .NET 2008 has problems&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/823\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[179,178,58],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seriously","category-technology","tag-freeze","tag-vdproj","tag-visual-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}