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Yasser Shaikh
Yasser Shaikh

Reputation: 47784

Designer not loading in Visual Studio 2012 express edition on Windows 8 pro

I recently installed Windows 8 64 bit Pro edition on my laptop. After whcih I installed Visual Studio 2012 express edition on it, then I registered myself online for a developer liscence.

All set and done, now whenever I create a new project say "New Project > Windows Phone App"

My designer never loads, I get the following error messages...

An Unhandled Exception has occurred,

Click here to reload the designer

but no matter how many times I reload the designer or restart Visual studio or restart my laptop this error just wont go.

The entire exception I have pasted here.

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Please help me on this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1391

Answers (2)

Bryan Geary
Bryan Geary

Reputation: 1

I had the same issue. It ended up being the Windows Firewall service was disabled. I use an alternate firewall, so I had that service disabled since I don't use it. Once I started the Windows Firewall service then turned off the firewall in the "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security", the designer loaded and worked fine.

Upvotes: 0

Rakesh Shewale
Rakesh Shewale

Reputation: 507

I too had same issue when I installed Windows SDK for phone on Windows 8 - 64bit and Visual Studio 2012 Express.

The solution that worked for me was:
1. Uninstall VS 2012
2. Uninstall all Silverlight components from Control panel -> Programs and features list.
3. Install VS 2012 and SDK for Phone again

Hope it helps you :)

Upvotes: 1

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