Internet Explorer 8 Breaks Visual Studio 2008

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Be careful, some of the dialogs in Visual Studio 2008 break if you install Internet Explorer 8.  Here’s one example.

In an ATL project, in the Class View, right click on an interface and select “Add Property”.  The following error appears now.

Internet Explorer Script Error
Line: 731
Char: 5
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20Visual%20Studio%209.0/VC/VCWizards/CodeWiz/ATL/Property/HTML/1033/default.htm

The property creation dialog that follows does not work anymore.  Here’s what the dialog looks like now.  Notice the Internet Explorer information bar at the top.

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I have submitted the issue to Microsoft.  The Connect bug report can be read here.

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Permalink | Comments (2) | March 25, 2009 10:18

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May 7, 2009 11:28

Rob Brown

I installed Norton AntiVirus 2009 and, a week later, IE8 as a Windows Critical Update. Right click context menus in Windows Explorer and elsewhere suddenly resulted in an error message. Copying or deleting or pasting files with the usual shortcut keys stopped working. After a total of 9 hours with Microsoft/India, the problem was resolved. IE8 stomped all over menu extensions previously added by Norton. The fix is to uninstall NAV 2009 -- if you have already successfully installed IE8 -- and then to reinstall it. The problesm go away immediately.  Now ...

Anybody know how to stop IE8 from sending me that "explore IE8" window and forcing me to try to choose settings?  I've already chosen my settings and don't want them to be disturbed. No matter how many times I say "ask me later" that damn window pops up again the next day ...

Rob Brown

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