Visual Studio 2013 crashing when opening solution on Windows 10

Question

Yesterday I upgraded my Windows 10 machine from the Insider Preview to the original release. From that moment on when I try to open solution(even when trying to create new one) in Visual Studio 2013 the program crashes and stops. In the event viewer I found that the crash is due to a heap corruption in the ntdll.dll but that didn't help me. The program runs smoothly in safe mode but crashes every time with every solution when not in this mode. When this happened I thought that it should be common problem for Windows 10 and VS2013 but I can't find anything relevant in the net for almost a day. Does anybody else experience such issue or similar? Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Note: I worked with VS2013 and Windows 10 Insider preview for almost a month and experienced no issues. That's why I think the problem is connected with the official release of Windows 10.

Answer 1

You might want to try un-installing VS2013 and then re-installing it on your machine, this works for almost all of the bugs that I encounter when upgrading my OS. Also, make sure you are installing VS2013 Update 5, which was released on the 20th July this year, and not the old VS2013 Update 4 (Or possibly earlier if you are using an old installer) as this may fix compatibility issues, which is likely as Microsoft would have made the most recent version of the software compatible with its latest OS. Even better, try installing Visual Studio 2015 as this will almost certainly be Windows 10 compatible as it is the newest release of the Visual Studio software.

Edit: Don't forget to back up any projects you want to keep before making any changes! This is important as you could easily lose a lot of work when un-installing VS2013.