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

I had the same issue on Windows 8.1 although KB3098779 and 3097997 were not installed on my machine. Probably it happened after installation of ASP.Net 5.

The issue was that I had both mcvcr files in version 12.0.51670.34230 while mcvcp files were already in 12.00.52512.0. It was enough to copy both mcvcr files (from System32 and SysWOW64) in this version from my colleague's pc.

If you have problems with permissions set to TrustedInstaller on these file, you can run this powershell command and then change permissions as Administrator:

takeown /A /F C:\windows\syswow64\msvcr120_clr0400.dll