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Visual Studio 2010 Not Starting with an 'The Application Cannot Start' Error?

December 8, 2009 Ely Lucas

I started getting this error out of the blue trying to startup VS 2010 tonight. I searched around and found a bug on the Connect site and a workaround.

The problem seems to stem from having a corrupted profile (at least it did for me), and running the following command fixed the problem.

Navigate to the IDE directory and run the reset command:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE"
devenv /resetuserdata

If you are having this issue, give this a try, and head over to the Connect site and vote up the bug to get it fixed.