I'm trying to compile a visual studio C++ project and I can't get anywhere because of the compiler reporting "Cannot open include file: 'excpt.h': No such file or directory". The problem has been reported numerous times on the Internet but I can't find any help regarding my particular situation. The problem is not that the include path of the project are not correctly setup, the problem is that this include file (and probably a bunch of other files) are just missing from my computer. There is no such file on my hard drive. So I tried installing Windows SDK 7.1. The file is not inside the installed SDK (although it should be). I tried repairing the install, uninstall it, reinstall it... all numerous time. I also try to install, repair, uninstall, reinstall Visual Studio 2010 professional numerous time, with and without the Windows SDK installed. I even tried uninstalling the professional version to install the express VC++... nothing seems to work, no 'excpt.h' never get installed on my computer. I am clueless... someone has a hint of a solution? I'm on Windows 7.
As supplementary information, note that 'excpt.h' is included in by "windows.h". Also, the "excpt.h" file is normally installed with the Windows SDK under a path like "c:\program files (x86)\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.1\include\" and with Visual Studio under a path like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\".
EDIT: If it might help, I might add that the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include related my Visual Studio install has only two files... which is certainly not normal!!! However, I can't find any ways to get the installer to install all the .h files that should appear in this repertory.
See if you have it at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\excpt.h Check to be sure that the system include-paths are correct in Visual Studio. If all else fails, uninstall everything, all SDK's, etc., and re-install Visual C++.
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For those who have the same problem, here is the solution I found after about 10h of install/uninstall/cleaning cycles... I've uninstalled completely visual studio using this. After that, using the control panel, I've uninstalled the Windows SDK and everything that can be associated with it or with visual studio (e.g. .NET framework). Then, I've removed all the left overs by manually deleting the visual studio and the Windows SDK folders located in C:/Program files. Finally, I deleted all the entries related to the Windows SDK or to Visual Studio in the registry (they are located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft). Then, I reinstalled Visual Studio... and it was finally working correctly. I should add that I restarted and cleaned the registry using CCleaner after any install or uninstall step.
I had this problem with a project that had been updated to VS2017 from VS2015.
This was a header included via windows.h. I knew this header should have no problems as I had other projects created directly in VS2017 that used windows.h.
Another symptom was that the intellisense was highlighting includes of standard headers (e.g string, vector etc), although these were not generating compile errors.
The fix for me was similar to VS 2010 Cannot open source file “string”.
Initially, I retargeted the project, hoping this would help (right-click the project, select retarget projects), but this did not in itself cure the problem.
I then took a working project and copied the include directories from project properties->Configuration Properties->VC++ Directories and used these to replace the same property for my broken project. This fixed the problem.
Initially, the value for this property was
$(VCInstallDir)include;$(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\include;$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath);
The replacement value was
$(VC_IncludePath);$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath);
I had the same problem, and tried the answer given by OP, but it did not work. However, copying the contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC (specifically bin, lib, and include) from a machine that did work to this machine worked.
It seems the Visual Studio 2012 installer is buggy when it comes to installing into a different drive letter than C:. I have installed the VS2012 into the D: drive and got the same error. I found that for some unknown reason the installer put some of the files into the correct location at:
D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
but the remaining files were at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
so I have moved the files from the C: into the D: location and it fixed the problem.
Some situation cause such problem. If you have uninstalled vs2010. you lost platform C++ binaries for .net framework 4 forever. You have to delete all of VS 2010 2012 2013, clean system up and its accompany components and reinstall them from scratch.
Or you can download this package. Include them in your project that may solve your problem properly.
one simeple way,just copy vc directory(C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC) from other computer
Fixing your Visual Studio installation is a good idea, but you don't necessarily need to re-install the same old version of VS. I uninstalled VS 2015, then modified my VS 2017 installation to add the VC++ v140 build tools, and now my project builds.
Reports error on loading dll
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise version 16.2.0
I have a dll library called RDLFunctions.dll to use in another WinForms application. Both projects are in the same solution that has worked for many years until I upgraded to Visual Studio 2019 and I can't go back. The WinForm app has about 50 reports and references the dll, but on project build, the reports that reference the dll all have similar errors (depending on which property is calling the dll).
Most research says to put the dll into several different folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\SSRS
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies
As well as to change values in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\SSRS\RSPreviewPolicy.config to PermissionSetName="FullTrust"
I've deleted the file from all locations including the debug\bin directory of the dll project and rebuilt the dll. It went into the PrivateAssemblies folder automatically and I put it in the other directories. I removed/re-referenced the dll in the WinForms app, restarted the computer, etc. Nothing has helped. Everything used to work in Visual Studio 2017. I've excluded all reports in the project so it would build successfully, and it did. But when I added back even 1 report, I still got the errors.
Please help!
Here's and example of one of the error messages I get on the report "ActivityLog.rdlc"
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error Error while loading code module: ‘RDLFunctions,
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’. Details: Could
not load file or assembly 'RDLFunctions, Version=1.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The
system cannot find the file
specified. Reports C:\SourceCode\Atlas\Mwells-Development-branch\Reports\Claims\ActivityLog.rdlc
copy the dll file to folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin
it's will work.
i'm using Visual Studio Enterprise 2019, Version 16.5.0
I am having this same problem:
IsVisualStudio2012ProInstalled() method not found error when running an SSIS package from VS2012 (I didn't have enough rep to comment and ask for help there). This issue started when I had visual studio 2012 installed but then installed visual studio 2015, the shop I work for uses both.
I followed the instructions of the #1 answer but getting the error below
I've entered this in command prompt:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
11.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\gacutil.exe" /if Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Design.dll
Error:
Failure adding assembly to the cache: This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
I finally got this to work by finding a newer version of gacutil that was on my computer. You can see originally I was looking in the v7.0a folder but found another copy in a v8.0a folder that I used that worked.
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\gacutil.exe"
/if Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Design.dll
I built a project in visual studio 2010 using c and got a DLL and was trying to use the DLL in postgresql 9.2. but i am getting this error:
ERROR: could not load library "C:\projmpt.dll": The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
I installed the latest version of Visual C++ Redistributable Packages but still not working.anyone who has any idea about this problem?
I installed the .net 4.5 framework, but Visual Studio gives the following error
error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'INotifyDataErrorInfo' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
I modified the project reference paths to the following
C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETCore\v4.5\
C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5\
but then I get the error
error MC1000: Unknown build error, 'Could not load type 'System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter' from assembly 'System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
Has anyone encountered or resolved this issue before?
Since .NET 4.5 is still in beta, I think it's only officially supported in the VS11 Developer Preview, not in VS2010.