After installing Visual Studio 2017, I'm unable to debug smart device project in Visual Studio 2008

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017, just shortly after it was released (March 2017).

When I go to debug my smart device project in VS 2008 I get a error message dialog that just says "The operation could not be completed". , .

Here is a list of what I've observed:

• The project output successfully deploys
• no error message is displayed in the output window in Visual Studio
• when I go to Debug=>Attach to Process and open the Transport drop down, it doesn't contain Smart Device like it usually does.
• ProcMon shows that devenv is maintaining a open connection to the device on port 5355

What I've tried:

• I tried debugging on multiple emulator types and devices that I know have worked in the past.
• I tried creating an new solution with the default smart device project.
• I tried deleting all the files in %localappdata%/Microsoft/CoreCon/1.0

Answer 1

From Developer Community: The cause is an error in the registration of the type library for this component.

To fix this issue, you can either:

Open a command prompt with administrator privileges and execute the following command:

reg add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{6A1A7D39-8449-4287-8EF0-CE256582C940}\8.0\0\win32 /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\coloader80.tlb"

Alternatively you can execute:

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\coloader80.dll"

The correct registration will be included in future versions of Visual Studio.