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    [RESOLVED] Broken Visual studio

    For some reason, my Visual Studio 2008 Express has started to throw compile errors when including <iostream>

    All projects that previously compiled without errors are now failing.

    In fact I can reproduce this by creating a project containing the single line #include <iostream>

    The error I get is
    c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\xstring(31) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ',' before '<'

    Reinstallation has had no effect.

    I'm stuck! Any ideas?
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    Re: Broken Visual studio

    Didn't you changed one of the files in ...\vc\include\ directory?
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    Re: Broken Visual studio

    Not that I'm aware of. I imagine something got corrupted, but I hoped a re-install would fix it.

    I'm going to try to eradicate all traces of VS2008 from my PC and do another re-install.
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    Re: Broken Visual studio

    OK, that worked.
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    Re: Broken Visual studio

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnW@Wessex View Post
    OK, that worked.
    So what was the problem?
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Broken Visual studio

    I don't really know. I assume one of the include file got corrupted in some way.
    A normal re-installation didn't seem to overwrite all of the files.
    I uninstalled VS, manually erased the folders, and then re-installed.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Broken Visual studio

    Well, you could look at the 'Date Modified' in Explorer column to see which files were recently changed...
    But It is already good you could solve this problem!
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