On startup Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM Ultimate displays the splash screen then crashes with "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation". See original MSDN forum post
This is what I have tried so far on my Win7 64x machine:
VS Repair
VS Reinstall
System restore to before issue
Modifying "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\General" UILanguage value to 0x409(1033)
Modifying the environment variable WINDIR from %SystemRoot% to C:\WINDOWS
Deleting the key WINDIR REG_SZ in HKEY\LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment then recreating as WINDIR REG_EXPAND_SZ C:\WINDIR
/reset /resetsettings /resetuserdata /safemode
Yet to my dismay, the issue still persists, any other ideas?
-Additional info- The issue arose after a windows update: -Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime Redistributable x64 (KB982305) -Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976422)