Environment: Visual Studio 2008
If you build a solution and the linker crashes, and building a couple more times clears it, you will need to install the SP1 update, as follows:
I fixed my Visual Studio linker regularly crashing, by installing Dev Studio 2008 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10986
Following this you will need to run Microsoft Update to locate further security updates, otherwise it may not build certain native applications, due to a broken atlcom.h, showing error:
“ClassesAllowedInStream is not defined.”
e.g. (in fact I let it do all the important updates)
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