Why do I get an error for “__CrtGetFileInformationByHandleEx ” when I try to compile

Question

I just installed Visual Studio 2015 Community on my computer. Until now I have been using Visual Studio 2010 Professional. Now when I try to run my MVC apps in the build i

Answer 1

KB3098779 appears to be the culprit on our server. That is the patch that installed the rogue CTP msvcr120_clr0400.dll mentioned in the above answer. Solution: we reversed out the patch set that applied KB3098779, and everything is working again. FYI: this is a .NET framework 4+ issue, not Visual Studio. Our server is a standard 2012 IIS server: Visual Studio is not installed.