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“The Binding Handle Is Invalid” error in Visual Studio 2005

Posted in C# by kenno on June 25, 2006

Tonight is the first time I began to code a small program in C# again since my graduation in April '06. It's just because I was away from Windows PC, and it's not easy do a GUI application with Mono on Mac. So it's not that I hate C# or anything. Anyway, I just installed Visual Studio .Net 2005 Profession edition (non-commercial use) on my home PC, and I encountered a never-seen-before (to me at least) error straight away when I tried to debug/build the program. Well, google search pointed me to a solution to this problem.

Here is the summary of why I got the above error. Well, Visual Studio 2005 debugger relies on "Terminal Services service", the so-called process listing. I have disabled the Terminal Services as I didn't need its service, and that's why it caused the problem. If you wanna read more through exaplaination, visit this link: Explaining 'The Binding Handle Is Invalid'.

Therefore, in order to this problem, all it needs to be done is to enable the Terminal Services in Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services. Or, you can visit this link for step by step guide: Troubleshooting the "The Binding Handle Is Invalid" error in Visual Studio 2005.  

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  2. Olivier's .NET Blog said, on September 1, 2006 at 8:34 pm

    Impossible de lancer le debugger de Visual Studio 2005

    Le message d’erreur qui apparaît lorsque l’on lance un programme depuis Visual Studio 2005 (ou depuis

  3. kenno said, on June 10, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    Je ne comprend pas. Je parle pas Francaise. ^_^

  4. Jr Francisco said, on May 22, 2009 at 6:01 am

    haha great advice it worked!

  5. . said, on July 16, 2009 at 11:50 am

    great !!
    it works for me too , also linked to my blog

    http://roomee.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/what-if-we-disable-the-terminal-services-in-control-paneladministrative-toolsservices/

    Peace :)


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