2015 LE repeatably crashes Visual Studio 2015 when opening Custom Actions screen

[amonroejj]

I'm using Visual Studio Professional 2015 14.0.25425.01 Update 3 and my peer is using 14.0.25431.01 Update 3. This crash is occurring on both my and my peer's boxes.

Double click Custom Actions, Visual Studio 2015 immediately crashes to desktop. Here's the relevant entries from Event Viewer Application log:


Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 12.0.40629.0, time stamp: 0x5590c8a4
Faulting module name: IsAppServices.dll, version: 22.0.0.347, time stamp: 0x55efb5d7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000ed3f3
Faulting process id: 0x304c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d212a64fe58c03
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2015LE\System\IsAppServices.dll
Report Id: c31ed0d3-7e99-11e6-92b2-2cd05a865e9b



Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIHierarchy.ExecCommand(UInt32, System.Guid ByRef, UInt32, UInt32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.HierarchyUtilities+<>c__DisplayClass22.b__1f()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ErrorHandler.CallWithCOMConvention(System.Func`1, Boolean, Boolean)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.HierarchyUtilities.ExecHierParentChain(Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.IVsHierarchyItemManager, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIHierarchy, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIHierarchy, UInt32, System.Guid ByRef, UInt32, UInt32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.HierarchyItem+HierarchyInvocationController.Invoke(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1, Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.InputSource, Boolean)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.InvocationController.Invoke(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1, Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.InputSource, Boolean, System.Func`2)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.InvocationController.Invoke(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1, Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.InputSource, Boolean)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.PivotTreeViewItem.InvokeItem(System.Windows.Input.InputDevice)
at Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.PivotTreeViewItem.OnMouseLeftButtonDown(System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs)
at System.Windows.UIElement.OnMouseLeftButtonDownThunk(System.Object, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs.InvokeEventHandler(System.Delegate, System.Object)
at System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs.InvokeHandler(System.Delegate, System.Object)
at System.Windows.RoutedEventHandlerInfo.InvokeHandler(System.Object, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs)
at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(System.Object, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs, Boolean)
at System.Windows.UIElement.ReRaiseEventAs(System.Windows.DependencyObject, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs, System.Windows.RoutedEvent)
at System.Windows.UIElement.OnMouseDownThunk(System.Object, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs.InvokeEventHandler(System.Delegate, System.Object)
at System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs.InvokeHandler(System.Delegate, System.Object)
at System.Windows.RoutedEventHandlerInfo.InvokeHandler(System.Object, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs)
at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(System.Object, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs, Boolean)
at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseEventImpl(System.Windows.DependencyObject, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs)
at System.Windows.ContentElement.RaiseTrustedEvent(System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Input.InputManager.ProcessStagingArea()
at System.Windows.Input.InputManager.ProcessInput(System.Windows.Input.InputEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Input.InputProviderSite.ReportInput(System.Windows.Input.InputReport)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndMouseInputProvider.ReportInput(IntPtr, System.Windows.Input.InputMode, Int32, System.Windows.Input.RawMouseActions, Int32, Int32, Int32)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndMouseInputProvider.FilterMessage(IntPtr, MS.Internal.Interop.WindowMessage, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.InputFilterMessage(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)

[amonroejj]

In case it happens to anyone else: This turned out to be a side effect of some hand-edits we made to our .isl files. Putting the .isl files back as they were allows the Custom Actions screen to be opened.