"The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click ok to close the application."
I am getting the error message in the title on a VPS running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 when I try to open Visual Studio 2010. Things were working fine in the beginning even after I installed SQL Server 2012 and VS 2013.
In trying to resolve this, I found others who had this issue stating that the 32 bit version of the msvcp100, msvcp100d, msvcr100, msvcr100d, and msvcr100_clr0400 DLLs in the SysWOW64 folder were overwritten somehow with the 64 bit version. So, I downloaded the 32 bit version and replaced them with no luck. I, also, removed the versions in the system32 folder. This didn't work either so I put the originals back.
I, also, performed a full clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2010, then, I reinstalled VS 2010 Shell Integrated; Visual Studio still will not start and gives the same error.
Can anyone help me to resolve this issue? If it is a problem with a DLL, does anyone know of a tool to help me narrow down exactly what DLL(s) are causing the problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
Answer
Using the Dependency Walker tool and finding a post that provided a little information on how to use the tool, I figured out that I had a 64-bit version of the ATL100.DLL instead of the 32-bit version. This file went missing earlier and I unknowingly downloaded and replaced it with a 64-bit version.