Joe Kaplan

I'm getting started with Min. I followed the excellent tutorial here to get my dev environment set up. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YEPCX4d50&t=5s

Everything seems to be working well. I went to Properties->Debugging->Command. And put max.exe as the command to run.

When I right click on my solution and Debug->Start new instance, about 40% of the time Max launches and all is well. 60% of the time i run into the error below. ntdll.dll exception, an invalid handle was specified.

Sometimes if I just try again, it all works out. Usually I have to restart Visual Studio and try again. Occasionally it keeps happening until I reboot my machine. As you can imagine, this is very disruptive to the coding experience.

I don't think this is an error in my code. It happens with try to start instances of the default object, or any of the min-devkit objects.

Has anybody encountered this before? Any suggestions? Thanks!

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I'm getting started with Min.  I followed the excellent tutorial here to get my dev environment set up.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YEPCX4d50&t=5s

Everything seems to be working well.  I went to Properties->Debugging->Command.  And put max.exe as the command to run.

When I right click on my solution and Debug->Start new instance, about 40% of the time Max launches and all is well.  60% of the time i run into the error below.  ntdll.dll exception, an invalid handle was specified.

Sometimes if I just try again, it all works out.  Usually I have to restart Visual Studio and try again.  Occasionally it keeps happening until I reboot my machine.  As you can imagine, this is very disruptive to the coding experience.  

I don't think this is an error in my code.  It happens with try to start instances of the default object, or any of the min-devkit objects.

Has anybody encountered this before?  Any suggestions?  Thanks!

Hi there,
I'm getting started with Min.  I followed the excellent tutorial here to get my dev environment set up.  
https://www.youtube.com/

intermittent-ntdll-dll-exception-when-starting-a-new-instance-in-visual-studio-to-debug-min-external

I went here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/webtopics/pdb-downloader

downloaded ntdll.pdb, and put the file in the max folder next to Max.exe.

I think VS will look for it in other places too, but I wasn't sure how to find those paths. 

downloaded ntdll.pdb, and put the file in the max folder  next to Max.exe.
I think VS will look for it in other places too, but I wasn't sure how to find those paths.  
Anyway, this is working for me now.

So it turns out you can just continue past this and Max will go ahead and launch.

intermittent ntdll.dll exception when Starting a New Instance in Visual Studio to debug Min External