RC2247 : Cannot open Rc file : Resource explorer cannot load resource ; Load failed

Question

I have a win 32 project I\'m working on and the resource file were working fine till yesterday. Now when I try to open the resource file to edit, it crashes and gives me the

Answer 1

I had the error as well. The approach mentioned in the http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/{...} Link (in a comment from Michael Walz) should work. Here's what you have to do:

Find the part where the windows headers are included. This might be the "windows.h" include, or if you use MFC, it is the include. Add the "prsht.h" header after your "windows.h" include (this did the trick for me). Also surround it with the two lines containing APSTUDIO_HIDDEN_SYMBOLS, to hide the lines from the resource editor. It should look like this:

#define APSTUDIO_HIDDEN_SYMBOLS
#include "windows.h"
#include "prsht.h"
#undef APSTUDIO_HIDDEN_SYMBOLS