Fatal Error HRESULT=0x80131c08 while debugging in Visual Studio 2010

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Matt Fricker picture Matt Fricker · Mar 21, 2012 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I am running Visual Studio 2010 in Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit in VMware 4.1.1 running on 2 processors and roughly 2GB of ram. On debugging a simple application Visual Studio seems to hang/unresponsive. I then get a bubble message informing me that "Visual Studio is busy waiting for an internal operation to complete". After a few minutes I then receive the following prompt:

"A fatal error has occurred and debugging needs to be terminated. For more details, please see the Microsoft Help and Support web site. HRESULT=0x80131c08. ErrorCode=0x0."

Microsoft's Support website can't find a solution. I have searched my favourite resource 'Google' to no avail. As well as looking here on stack overflow. I did find a post on here similar but unrelated to VMware, post mentioned that this error was due to a memory issue, so I increased the virtual machine to 4GB and tried the whole process again. And got the same error.

Has anyone else experienced this issue, or found a solution or could point me in the direction of the right thread. As I say I did search to no avail.

Answer

Mike de Klerk picture Mike de Klerk · May 22, 2013

I had this error when I automatically attach to a process in C# code using the EnvDTE namespace. The process that was attached unexpectedly ended (the process was killed somehow?) and therefore the debugger timed-out. Probably a unlucky moment, after that message with the HRESULT=0x80131c08 error I also got another message saying: could not not detach from proces X (the automatically attached process) due to a unrecoverable API failure. Hopefully this might be of some help so some one some day.

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