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Visual Studio 2008 + Windows 7: Setup Projects hanging

We have Visual Studio 2008 Team System (SP1) installed on Windows 7 on a 64-bit desktop machine.

Our solutions contain setup and deployment projects (vdproj).

When Visual Studio loads, it hangs trying to load the setup projects.

This also happens to newly created solutions entirely in this environment so it is not something lagging from old files or environments.

Here is my test solution structure:

MyTestSolution - MyTestProject - Program.cs (Contains Console.WriteLine("Hello World")) - MyTestSetupProject (When creating it hangs)

Any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT: Does VS2008 need to be run as administrator?

Solution

  • Found the solution to the issue that was causing Setup and Deployment projects to hang while trying to load them.

    This MSDN thread has the solution:

    Basically it is failing authentication when retrieving references for visual studio.

    I always thought it would be the "Zusätzliche Sicherheit für Verweisprotokollierung"!!

    Thanks for your help everyone :)