CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsvisual-studio-2013
Mark Lakata
Mark Lakata

Reputation: 20818

The application was unable to start correctly (0xC0000056). Click Ok to close the application

I am developing a C++ app in Visual Studio and get this error when I go to debug - it never makes it to main(). Googling for this error code doesn't help - in fact, most return hits are trojan horse websites.

Dependency Walker doesn't show anything funny. All DLLs are found on the path, and all are 64 bit as expected.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6701

Answers (1)

Mark Lakata
Mark Lakata

Reputation: 20818

It turns out, one of the Windows DLLs that I am attempting to load has been marked for deletion by an installer that I installed earlier today. I had ran an update to TortoiseGit, which required replacing in-use system DLLs and requested a reboot (which I declined).

The error code 0xC0000056 found a hit here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/E/95EF66AF-9026-4BB0-A41D-A4F81802D92C/[MS-ERREF].pdf

0xC0000056 STATUS_DELETE_PENDING

A non-close operation has been requested of a file object that has a delete pending

After rebooting, I was able to debug my code.

Upvotes: 5

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