I am running Windows XP SP3 under VMware Fusion 4.1.1. I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 and it would crash every time I tried to open a file in a project. I submitted the crash dump to Microsoft and they indicated that there was a problem with color management and that I needed to reset it to default. Sounded easy enough until I realized that the SVGA driver provided by VMware does not support color management (ie, no Color Management tab appears in the Advanced Display properties and the Color Control Panel applet does not work).
Does anyone know how to get VS 2010 to run on XP in VMware Fusion?
PS. In case the actual exception causing the crash might provide a clue, it is below:
System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException was unhandled
Message=Initialization of 'System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage' threw an exception.
Source=PresentationFramework
LineNumber=0
LinePosition=0
StackTrace:
at System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.RewrapException(Exception e, Uri baseUri)
at System.Windows.FrameworkTemplate.LoadTemplateXaml(XamlReader templateReader, XamlObjectWriter currentWriter)
at System.Windows.FrameworkTemplate.LoadTemplateXaml(XamlObjectWriter objectWriter)
at System.Windows.FrameworkTemplate.LoadOptimizedTemplateContent(DependencyObject container, IComponentConnector componentConnector, IStyleConnector styleConnector, List`1 affectedChildren, UncommonField`1 templatedNonFeChildrenField)
at System.Windows.FrameworkTemplate.LoadContent(DependencyObject container, List`1 affectedChildren)
at System.Windows.StyleHelper.ApplyTemplateContent(UncommonField`1 dataField, DependencyObject container, FrameworkElementFactory templateRoot, Int32 lastChildIndex, HybridDictionary childIndexFromChildID, FrameworkTemplate frameworkTemplate)
at System.Windows.FrameworkTemplate.ApplyTemplateContent(UncommonField`1 templateDataField, FrameworkElement container)
at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.ApplyTemplate()
at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureCell(Int32 cell, Boolean forceInfinityV)
at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureCellsGroup(Int32 cellsHead, Size referenceSize, Boolean ignoreDesiredSizeU, Boolean forceInfinityV)
at System.Windows.Controls.Grid.MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(Size availableSize)
at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(Size availableSize)
at System.Windows.ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayout()
at System.Windows.ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayoutCallback(Object arg)
at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.InvokeOnRenderCallback.DoWork()
at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.FireInvokeOnRenderCallbacks()...
...etc
