Release Managment Client failed on startup

Question

I am using Microsoft Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013. But it failed to start with the following 2 errors in event log:

Error 1:

Faulting application name: ReleaseManagementConsole.exe, version: 12.0.21031.1, time stamp: 0x5272753c

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16864, time stamp: 0x531d2be6

Exception code: 0xe0434352

Fault offset: 0x00010f22

Faulting process id: 0x1108

Faulting application start time: 0x01cfb539f264950b

Faulting application path: D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Release Management\bin\ReleaseManagementConsole.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll

Report Id: 302cacba-212d-11e4-941f-001018ccb4a7

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Error 2:

Application: ReleaseManagementConsole.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: System.MissingFieldException

Stack: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Release.Console.App.OnStartup(System.Windows.StartupEventArgs) at System.Windows.Application.<.ctor>b__1(System.Object)...

I am using Windows Server 2012 + Visual Studio 2013.

Anyone saw such issue before?

Answer 1

I've had the same problem a couple of times where Release Management was working then stopped. Both times turned out it was something wrong with my user profile information - I managed to sort out the problem by deleting all the files from:

C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation\ReleaseManagementConsole._StrongName_x5pjssdhilxecxumty4fc2wj50dqoakc\12.0.0.0

Obviously the path won't be exactly like mine but you should be able to find it.