Visual Studio registry capture utility has encountered a problem

Question

I recently reinstalled my development machine and went from 32 bit Windows Vista to 64 bit Windows 7. I'm running VS2008.

Some of my .NET applications still use J#, which now causes problems. The program still runs, but when I want to deploy it (I'm using a setup project to create a .msi), I get this error:

"Visual Studio registry capture utility has encountered a problem"

How can I fix this? This error does not occur with other programs (those written purely in C#).

Answer 1

Yes, this is a known bug with Win7 and VS2008, in creating an installer that exposes COM objects.

Here is the workaround

Thanks @RogerFraser for the tip as I was having the same problem

To solve.

1. Locate regcap.exe here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\Deployment
2. Right click and select properties.
3. Select Compatibility tab
4. Check box to Run this program in compatibility mode.
5. Select Windows Vista SP2 in the OS drop-down.
6. Click Ok and Recompile.

HTH.

Answer 2

Works for me. Thanks.

Dieter

Answer 3

Works fine for me.

Answer 4

Thanks! Works perfectly!

Answer 5

Unfortunately it didn't work for me, still getting the same error. Using Windows 7 Enterprise Edition, 64 Bit.

That's the error details (German only, sorry):

Problemereignisname: BEX Anwendungsname: REGCAP.EXE Anwendungsversion: 9.0.21022.8 Anwendungszeitstempel: 47316c84 Fehlermodulname: MSVCR90.dll Fehlermodulversion: 9.0.30729.4926 Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 4a1743c1 Ausnahmeoffset: 0003689c Ausnahmecode: c0000417 Ausnahmedaten: 00000000 Betriebsystemversion: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4 Gebietsschema-ID: 3079 Zusatzinformation 1: 0a73 Zusatzinformation 2: 0a7372810d093ef4e8ab14e85634e08a Zusatzinformation 3: 6150 Zusatzinformation 4: 6150f9546d0a47d70659c34cf83b2016

Answer 6

no more working

Answer 7

worked for me as well!

Answer 8

This did not work for me until I came across this blog post where the poster looked at the debug information and found a buffer overflow error with long paths. I put the solution into C:\temp and I was able to compile it after following the steps posted by Noam and Kris. This was on a project upgraded from VS2005 to VS2010 on Windows 7 x64.