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Visual Studio 2008 Not saving changes or project properties?

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you)

I’ve recently ran into problems with VS 2008. Summarized here:

  1. When you try to edit the project properties (specially C++ projects) you are faced with a little nice message saying “Exception from HRESULT: 0xF9F0F308”.
  2. Sometimes when you are editing a file (specially large ones), VS doesn’t recognize you’ve made changes (ie doesn’t display that ‘*’ in the files tabs) hence, when you save, nothing actually gets saved.

For those 2 problems, a friend explained the problem and a work around (till they officially release a fix)…

  1. Open up a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt
  2. Run cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE"
  3. Make a backup copy of devenv.exe in case something does not work right.
    ie. copy devenv.exe devenv.exe.bak
  4. Run editbin /largeaddressaware:no devenv.exe

Happy VSing… :)

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  1. Ahmed EssamFebruary 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    I guess this command will resolve the address in the devenv.exe, Call, JMP,.. etc or what.

    I think this problem is because u use 64 Bits OS.

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  2. Haytham AlaaFebruary 21, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    I don't know "exactly" what will be changed in the binary code, it's definitely something related to the address resolution...
    I'm using 64bit OS yes, but I think this can still happen on an extended 32bit process on 32bit OS (one that can use 3GB of RAM instead of the default 2GB limit)...

    Welcome on my blog, Ahmed. It's an honour :)

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  3. i ObjectMay 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM

    Asalamoalikum, my vs is not saving any changes, im making in my form, it was working fine just now, but suddenly sumthing happened. Any suggestions :( ???

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  4. i ObjectMay 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM

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  5. Haytham AlaaMay 28, 2010 at 10:07 AM

    @Rabia.Mona,
    Wa3alaykom al salam,
    May I ask what are the symptoms? do you get the exception above? or some other HResult? or nothing at all?

    When you edit any file, do you see a "*" beside the file name in the tabs bar?

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  6. i ObjectMay 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    yes, there is a asterisk sign when i edit any form code. But there is no error or exception appear and it just run the previously saved code, new changes do not appear :(

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