Tooling: Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 : An error occurred trying to load the project properties window

[jaliyaudagedara]

When opening project properties of any project (MVC, Web API, Class Library, Console Application etc.) created targeting ASP.NET 5, I am getting this error.

"An error occurred trying to load the project properties window. Close the window and try again. COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used."

Any ideas?

[BillHiebert]

Can you use a newer build than CTP6?

[jaliyaudagedara]

Issue was present in Visual Studio 2015 RC as well. Contacted Microsoft and the issue was with the GhostDoc VS Extension. Unloaded GhostDoc VS Extension from Visual Studio 2015 RC, and the problem got resolved.

Thank you Microsoft!

[RehanSaeed]

Thanks @jaliyaudagedara. I can confirm GhostDoc was the problem. I have emailed them a link to this thread.

[sergebee]

Rehan,

Thank you for bringing the thread to our attention!

Yes, we were aware of this and already resolved it. We have a private build of GhostDoc that includes the fix.

Thanks!

[Daniel15]

@sergebee - Any updates on this? I recently encountered the same thing (https://github.com/aspnet/Tooling/issues/138), also caused by GhostDoc.

[SergeBaranovsky]

@Daniel15 - drop us a note at support at submain dot com and tell which edition you need - we will provide you with download link.

Thanks!

[Daniel15]

Thanks @SergeBaranovsky, I sent an email

[ghost]

Issue also breaking Visual Studio publish; I click on the publish button and nothing happens - I thought it had to do with beta8 but once I uninstalled GhostDoc to eliminate the error addressed here my publish feature started working.

[RehanSaeed]

Is this still broken in the latest version. I quite liked GhostDoc.

[ghost]

It is with Visual Studio 2015 beta 8. I sent them an email and have a support ticket. I could have lived with the com error (I like GhostDoc that much) but can't live with the publish issue...

[BillHiebert]

This is a known issue in GhostDoc. They released an update available here: http://submain.com/Download/NightlyBuild/gd_4.9.15168.zip

[SergeBaranovsky]

Bill, thank you for posting the link. Yes, that build addresses the issue although now is pretty early build and we are about the release v5 that addresses this issue as well. If you want a pre-release build, drop us a note at support at submain dot com. Thanks for your patience!

[lismore]

Hi guys,

I find this same issue in the latest version of VS 2015 (Pro)

[zemien]

@lismore I had to restart Visual Studio after unloading GhostDoc. I can now open Project Properties.

I have VS Enterprise 2015 Update 1 RC, and ASP.Net 5 RC1.

[SergeBaranovsky]

@All,

We have made a new GhostDoc update available yesterday and it includes the fix. Please download the new bits from http://submain.com/ghostdoc - thank you for the patience!

[rlvandaveer]

@SergeBaranovsky While that's great that you've fixed it in v5, the latest version of v4 has this issue.

[SergeBaranovsky]

@rlvandaveer I'm not sure what the problem is... Upgrade to the v5?

[rlvandaveer]

This is probably not the right forum for this (sorry aspnet/tooling folks) but I thought that SubMain's v4 clients that find this thread (and possibly SubMain) might want to know that barring paying for the next version, there is no fix.

[SergeBaranovsky]

You are correct, this is not the right forum for that. (sorry aspnet/tooling folks) Users of the free GhostDoc still get their v5 upgrade free, the commercial license users who chose to be getting updates via the software assurance subscription, also get the v5 version free.

If you want to continue the discussion, please take it to SubMain forums or offline via email. Thanks!

[BNarayanSharma]

I was also facing the same issue in Visual Studio 2015. I was using GhostDoc Community 4.9.x and I upgraded it to 5.1.x and issue get resolved.