The Operation Could not be completed. Invalid Pointer - VS2010 SP1

Question

I am working on an asp.net project in web forms. When i working on the project yesterday power went out and the system went to improper shutdown.

After that today i tried to open my solution, the .cs file is not opening. VS shows error as

The Operation Could not be completed. Invalid Pointer

And the .cs file was opened on notepad as empty. I am not sure what is the issue.

Could any one help me to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance.

You might have a look at my answer regarding to this problem on **[Visual Studio Hosting Process and “The operation could not be completed”](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33338/visual-studio-hosting-process-and-the-operation-could-not-be-completed/50497064#50497064)**. — Murat Yıldız, May 23 '18 at 20:36

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 25 '16 at 15:34

11

Resolved this problem by clearing this folder:

c:\Users\<myusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache

edited Feb 25 '16 at 15:34

Vasfed

answered Feb 04 '16 at 15:53

Daniel

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I could open .cs files but not .cshtml files. However, this worked. Thank you. – Daniel Przybylski Mar 15 '16 at 15:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

1

Hope it helps you.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

Community

answered Apr 15 '14 at 07:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 25 '16 at 15:34

I have the same error and I have tried the following with NO SUCCES

Rename %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG to something else. I changed it to VS7DEBUG1.
Delete the content of %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
Installed Servicing Update (KB3110221)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /resetuserdata
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /resetsettings

I finally uninstalled visual studio 2015. Restarted and installed it again and then it worked.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 01 '18 at 11:31

0

Please clear this folder: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache

answered Aug 01 '18 at 11:31

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