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Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

We've all done it. You prepare a new build, install it, start testing before releasing it and then...it crashes. The immediate thought is always "What have we done...?".

Exactly that happened to us recently when testing a Visual Lint build - all we did was dock a window and then Visual Studio crashed and restarted.

Oops.

So, what had we done? As it turns out, nothing - the crash was actually caused by a Windows 10 update - and happened irrespective of whether any third party extensions are installed. KB4598301 is reportedly the cause, though others (e.g. KB4598299) also seem to cause the same effects.

The following community post has more details of the bug and possible workarounds:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1323017/unexpected-vs-crash-when-docking-or-splitting-wind.html

We have no doubt that Microsoft will fix this very soon (in Visual Studio 2017 and 2019, at least) so for now we're not too worried, but in the meantime - or if you're using an older version of Visual Studio - the workarounds are to uninstall the update, or edit devenv.exe.config.

If you decide to do the latter, check to see if the if the configuration/runtime/AppContextSwitchOverrides element exists. If it does append the following to its value:

;Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.OptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true;
Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.DoNotOptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true

If however the element does not exist (it may not for older versions of Visual Studio), you can just add it:

<AppContextSwitchOverrides
value="Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.OptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true;
Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.DoNotOptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true" />

Once you restart Visual Studio you should then be good to go.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

We've all done it. You prepare a new build, install it, start testing before releasing it and then...it crashes. The immediate thought is always "What have we done...?".

Exactly that happened to us recently when testing a Visual Lint build - all we did was dock a window and then Visual Studio crashed and restarted.

Oops.

So, what had we done? As it turns out, nothing - the crash was actually caused by a Windows 10 update - and happened irrespective of whether any third party extensions are installed. KB4598301 is reportedly the cause, though others (e.g. KB4598299) also seem to cause the same effects.

The following community post has more details of the bug and possible workarounds:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1323017/unexpected-vs-crash-when-docking-or-splitting-wind.html

We have no doubt that Microsoft will fix this very soon (in Visual Studio 2017 and 2019, at least) so for now we're not too worried, but in the meantime - or if you're using an older version of Visual Studio - the workarounds are to uninstall the update, or edit devenv.exe.config.

If you decide to do the latter, check to see if the if the configuration/runtime/AppContextSwitchOverrides element exists. If it does append the following to its value:

;Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.OptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true;
Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.DoNotOptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true

If however the element does not exist (it may not for older versions of Visual Studio), you can just add it:

<AppContextSwitchOverrides
value="Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.OptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true;
Switch.System.Windows.Interop.MouseInput.DoNotOptOutOfMoveToChromedWindowFix=true" />

Once you restart Visual Studio you should then be good to go.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• Updated the values of _MSC_VER and _MSC_FULL_VER in the PC-lint Plus compiler indirect file co-rb-vs2017.lnt to reflect those in the latest Visual Studio 2017 update (VS2017 v15.9.31).

• Updated the values of _MSC_VER and _MSC_FULL_VER in the PC-lint Plus compiler indirect file co-rb-vs2019.lnt to reflect those in the latest Visual Studio 2019 update (VS2019 v16.8.4).

• The project variables $(CEVER), $(ARCHFAM) and $(_ARCHFAM_) are now automatically defined when analysing Visual Studio 2008 projects for the WEBMAINT_SDK (ARMV4I) platform.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.11.332

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• Updated the values of _MSC_VER and _MSC_FULL_VER in the PC-lint Plus compiler indirect file co-rb-vs2017.lnt to reflect those in the latest Visual Studio 2017 update (VS2017 v15.9.31).

• Updated the values of _MSC_VER and _MSC_FULL_VER in the PC-lint Plus compiler indirect file co-rb-vs2019.lnt to reflect those in the latest Visual Studio 2019 update (VS2019 v16.8.4).

• The project variables $(CEVER), $(ARCHFAM) and $(_ARCHFAM_) are now automatically defined when analysing Visual Studio 2008 projects for the WEBMAINT_SDK (ARMV4I) platform.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.11.332

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• The ${eclipse_home} and ${software_location} project variables are now defined when parsing S32 Design Studio for ARM projects.

• Any project variables of the form ${VARNAME} which Visual Lint cannot expand will now be converted to the standard OS format (i.e. %VARNAME%) before any properties referencing them are written to a PC-lint or PC-lint Plus project indirect (project.lnt) file. This allows the values of Eclipse project variables to be defined as system environment variables and (for example) injected using the PC-lint/PC-lint Plus -setenv() directive if necessary.

• Fixed a bug in the generation of PC-lint/PC-lint Plus command lines for projects containing per-file preprocessor definitions.

• Fixed a bug in the generation of analysis command lines containing preprocessor definitions whose values contain quotes. The bug affected analysis command lines for PC-lint, PC-lint Plus and CppCheck.

• Fixed a bug which could prevent VisualLintGui code editor views from reflecting changes to files which have been externally modified.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.10.329

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• The ${eclipse_home} and ${software_location} project variables are now defined when parsing S32 Design Studio for ARM projects.

• Any project variables of the form ${VARNAME} which Visual Lint cannot expand will now be converted to the standard OS format (i.e. %VARNAME%) before any properties referencing them are written to a PC-lint or PC-lint Plus project indirect (project.lnt) file. This allows the values of Eclipse project variables to be defined as system environment variables and (for example) injected using the PC-lint/PC-lint Plus -setenv() directive if necessary.

• Fixed a bug in the generation of PC-lint/PC-lint Plus command lines for projects containing per-file preprocessor definitions.

• Fixed a bug in the generation of analysis command lines containing preprocessor definitions whose values contain quotes. The bug affected analysis command lines for PC-lint, PC-lint Plus and CppCheck.

• Fixed a bug which could prevent VisualLintGui code editor views from reflecting changes to files which have been externally modified.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.10.329

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• When a custom report folder is defined in the Options Dialog "Reports" page, generated reports will now be written into subfolders identifying the solution/workspace, analysis tool and analysed solution/workspace configuration rather than just the solution/workspace name. This allows analysis reports for the same project but using different analysis tools or configurations to co-exist without overwriting each other.

• Fixed a bug in the persistence of the "Generate reports in..." report options in the Options Dialog "Reports" page.

• Updated the PC-lint Plus message database to reflect changes in PC-lint Plus 1.3.5.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.9.324

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• When a custom report folder is defined in the Options Dialog "Reports" page, generated reports will now be written into subfolders identifying the solution/workspace, analysis tool and analysed solution/workspace configuration rather than just the solution/workspace name. This allows analysis reports for the same project but using different analysis tools or configurations to co-exist without overwriting each other.

• Fixed a bug in the persistence of the "Generate reports in..." report options in the Options Dialog "Reports" page.

• Updated the PC-lint Plus message database to reflect changes in PC-lint Plus 1.3.5.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.9.324

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• Fixed a crash in the Analysis Results Display if the "Report" button was used when the "All Files" view was selected.

• Fixed a bug which could cause charts to fail to render in analysis reports.

• Fixed a bug in the MSBuild project file parser which could cause some MSBuild property groups to be incorrectly parsed.

• Fixed a bug in the Advanced Analysis Options Dialog which affected VisualLintConsole.

• The PC-lint/PC-lint Plus "Compiler Configuration" Configuration Wizard page no longer shows indirect files which are used as part of the implementation of other PC-lint Plus compiler indirect files.

• Fixed minor display bugs in the PC-lint/PC-lint Plus "Information", "Compiler Configuration", "Analysis Configuration File" and "Warning Policy File" Configuration Wizard pages.

• If the active analysis tool is anything other than PC-lint or PC-lint Plus the nonfunctional "Issues" page in the Category Properties Dialog is now hidden.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.8.322

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 7.0. The following changes are included:

• Fixed a crash in the Analysis Results Display if the "Report" button was used when the "All Files" view was selected.

• Fixed a bug which could cause charts to fail to render in analysis reports.

• Fixed a bug in the MSBuild project file parser which could cause some MSBuild property groups to be incorrectly parsed.

• Fixed a bug in the Advanced Analysis Options Dialog which affected VisualLintConsole.

• The PC-lint/PC-lint Plus "Compiler Configuration" Configuration Wizard page no longer shows indirect files which are used as part of the implementation of other PC-lint Plus compiler indirect files.

• Fixed minor display bugs in the PC-lint/PC-lint Plus "Information", "Compiler Configuration", "Analysis Configuration File" and "Warning Policy File" Configuration Wizard pages.

• If the active analysis tool is anything other than PC-lint or PC-lint Plus the nonfunctional "Issues" page in the Category Properties Dialog is now hidden.

Download Visual Lint 7.0.8.322