Visual Studio Crashes on taking Version tree from Clearcase

Question

I am running Visual Studio 2008 SP1. While taking Version Tree of any file, Visual Studio Crashes and exits. What to do with this?

Clearcase ver 7.1 OS: Windows 7 (x86)

Answer 1

This technote mentions DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as the probable cause of these crashes.

This only happens on Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems.

Cause

This is due to DEP (Data Execution Prevention), which is enabled by default for all applications.
Defect, APAR PK64886, has been opened to investigate this issue.

WORKAROUND:

DEP can be disabled for certain applications by running bcdedit.exe
In order to avoid this crash from happening the user needs to do the following

• 1/ Login as Administrator 2/ Open a command prompt and run the following command.

  bcdedit.exe /set nx Optout

• 3/ Restart the system
• 4/ Navigate to the Visual Studio install directory, which is typically found in the following locations:
  • VS.NET 2008: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
  • VS.NET 2010: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0

Note: On Windows 64-bit platforms the above pathnames start with: C:\Program Files (x86)\
Then cd to the dir "VC\bin" (for example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin).

• 5/ Run the following 2 commands

 cmd prompt>  vcvars32.bat
 cmd prompt>  link /edit /nxcompat:NO "\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" 

This should resolve DEP-related crashes in Visual Studio with the ClearCase integration going forward.

Note:To restore DEP to the Windows default, use the following command: bcdedit.exe /set nx OptIn