Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Fixing Visual Studio for IE8

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Apr 9, 20091 min

Some wizards in Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 break if IE8 is installed. Here's a fix.

As discussed in the Visual C++ Team Blog, “after installing the current release of Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 8), some VC++ wizards do not function correctly.” The reason has to do with a new security policy in IE8.

The fix is a matter of adding one registry key:

  • Open regedit (on a 64-bit OS, open the 32-bit regedit)
  • Under “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsZones”, create a new key called 1000 (if it isn’t already there)
  • Under 1000, create a DWORD entry with:

    • Name = 1207
    • Type = REG_DWORD
    • Data = 0x000000

Props to Dave Laljee, via Windows Secrets

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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