> You must not have the assembly that has this referenced. That is the
> System.Configuration assembly.

> --
> HTH,

> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> .Net Developer
> You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
> but you can't make it stink.

> "Glass Half Full" <sta...@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uHLnaNA$FHA.3464@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> I've put about 20 hours into just this problem and I'm becoming quite
>> frustrated.

>> From the link you provided I took this file content:
>> ---
>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework]
>> "MDA"="0"
>> ---
>> Placed it in a file and ran that file.  Using regedit I see "MDA REG_SZ
>> 0" in the appropriate location.

>> I bring up visual studio, compile, entry debug, get the same MDA error on
>> the same line as before.
>> No difference, no effect.  As I said in my first note I can disable the
>> LoaderLock exception from the Debug/Exceptions/Managed Debugging
>> Assistants option, but that just causes the app to hang in the debugger.
>> Application runs fine outside of the debugger.  Application runs in debug
>> when compiled and run on a different machine.  Last night I COMPLETELY
>> removed VS2005 and .NET 2.0 (and other 2005 components), then
>> reinstalled. Absolutely, no change in behavior.

>> Following the MDA exception I get the following message:
>> "No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame.  The source code cannot
>> be displayed."

>> Basically, I'm getting an exception that is impossible to turn off but
>> that comes for nowhere.

>> Other "odd" (likely unrelated) problems with my version of VS2005

>> 1) Tools/Options/Text Editor/C#/Formatting generates a panel with the
>> message "An error occurred loading this property page".

>> 2) When I recompile I see the following warning:
>> Warning 1 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is
>> obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by
>> System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings'
>> ...

>> ** There is only one problem with this ... THERE IS NO
>> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager

>> The machine is a Dell that ran VS2003 fine.  VS versions 6, 7 (vs2003),
>> and 8(vs2005) are all installed on this machine.

>> Help!

>> ""Peter Huang" [MSFT]" <v-phu...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FaC4sf7%23FHA.552@TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi

>>> It seems to be the new feature in Whidbey which is called Managed
>>> Debugging
>>> Assistants.
>>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d21c150d.aspx

>>> If you did not want that you may try to follow the steps above in
>>> disable
>>> the feature.

>>> Best regards,

>>> Peter Huang
>>> Microsoft Online Partner Support

>>> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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