Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and 2015 “The application cannot start” message, when running as administrator and after update 3 installed.

Based on the comments I got on this post, the solution is also working for 2012 and 2015. Would it work for 2017 as well?  (25/03/2017)

I got a weird error when I updated my Visual Studio 2013 with the Update 3. When i try to run Visual Studio with the option “Run as administrator· I get the error message “The application cannot start”

I don’t know the explanation for it but I sorted this out by:

• Copy all the *.olb files located in  C:\Program Files (X86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv
• Paste them in the Ide visual estudio folder, in my case here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE

Lunch Visual Studio with Run as administrator and then it should work. If anyone knows why, please comment the post!

 

Thank you!

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 29, 2014
  I've not encountered that error.  In most cases you should not need administrator permissions but here are a list of the tasks that require it:msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj662724.aspxCheers.

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2014
  thank you, it helped me.

• Anonymous
  March 06, 2015
  Perfect, It worked for me!

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2015
  Thank you, it worked!! you have no idea how you have helped me

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2015
  Thanks, it helped.Also I tried copy only one olb files once a time.ends up you only need to copy this one and it will work: dte80a.olb

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2015
  Hmmm that is interesting Justin, thank you for trying that.

• Anonymous
  April 19, 2015
  Seems odd, but this totally worked for the "Application Cannot Start" VS problem I had... thank you for sharing!

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2015
  yeees fck yeah it worked

• Anonymous
  July 17, 2015
  Wow, that totally worked for me. Good find!

• Anonymous
  August 03, 2015
  This worked like a charm

• Anonymous
  September 12, 2015
  you save my day..tq dude

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2015
  Thanks a lot. Resolved the issue for me :)

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2015
  Thanks ...

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2015
  Thank you! Works like a charm. You save me from a headache.

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2016
  very nice man, you solve my issue.

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2016
  Thank you sir,This solution also worked for me.

• Anonymous
  April 09, 2016
  this didn't help me. I upgraded my Win2k8 R2 machine to .net 4.5 and after that VS 2013 is throwing me error - The application cannot start” message, when running as administrator

• Anonymous
  May 17, 2016
  It's work for me too! Thank you!

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2016
  Thanks a lot..it works here visual studio 2012 ultimate

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2016
  Thanks man!

• Anonymous
  November 22, 2016
  Thanks, This Solution also worked for me as well

• Anonymous
  December 04, 2016
  Works for VS2015 too!

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2017
    Amazing! nice to see that also fixes the issue for 2015! :)

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2017
  Absolutely Amazing... Worked a treat, and this was after several hours of completely uninstalling and reinstalling VS, SSDT and SSMS on the dev server. Point to note, I experienced this error when upgrading SSDT from v16.5 to v17.0, not VS itself (this is still 2015).

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2017
  Thank you.