The strange case of error 0x80070005 "Access Denied" using PEVerify.exe with an add-in referencing a Visual Studio assembly not in the GAC

June 29, 2009

It took me quite a lot of time to fix the problem of Error 0x80070002 “The system cannot find the file specified” using PEVerify.exe to verify add-in with referenced assemblies from Visual Studio not in the GAC. I found the problem yesterday Sunday afternoon when I was with my laptop at a Starbucks with no […]


MZ-Tools Articles Series: PRB: PEVerify.exe causes problem verifying add-in with referenced assemblies from Visual Studio not in the GAC

June 29, 2009

I am currently working on a new version of MZ-Tools and yesterday I updated its build script. When running it, to my surprise, I found the following error in the step that verifies the assembly with the peverify.exe tool after the obfuscation step: Error 0x80070002 “The system cannot find the file specified” After diagnosing the […]


Those strange cases of error 8013XXXX…

June 29, 2009

From time to time I blog about strange cases of errors when loading add-ins for Visual Studio. At least three of them have been about errors with hexadecimal codes such as 8013XXXX: The strange case of <Unknown Error> 8013150A loading a Visual Studio add-in http://blogs.msmvps.com/carlosq/2009/03/24/the-strange-case-of-lt-unknown-error-gt-8013150a-loading-a-visual-studio-add-in.aspx The strange case of <Unknown Error> 8013141A loading a Visual […]