C# - Scripting host is not initialized error??

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#1

Hi all.

I’ve recently got my hands on Visual Studio 15 as I’m looking into developing Universal applications for the Windows platform. I’ve been messing around with JSON.Net and I’m getting a very strange error/crash whenever I use it.

The program loads and deserializes the data I need but I get an error message with the follow text: “Scripting host is not initialized”. I can’t find out anything online about it :frowning: I’ve removed .NET completely, reinstalled Visual, restarted loads, tried another project and I still get the same problem. Anyone have any clue what it could mean? Even the title message is very vague, it just says “Visual Studio” :confused:

#2

Hah, what a joke.

On topic though I’d guess that somewhere in the JSON parsing it wants to use a scripting language (JavaScript, perhaps?), and that .NET doesn’t have an initialized host for that language.

#3

Hmm. Well I’ve installed Visual Studio 2015 on my other machine that is running the same OS (Windows 10 64bit) and I have no issues. I’m starting to wonder if it’s an issue with me storing the data on 1 of my hard drives and not on the SSD where the OS resides.

#4

Okay fixed! Leaving the solution that finally worked.

I completely wiped Visual Studio 2015 from the PC and installed it onto the SSD where my OS is. During the end of the installation process, Avast anti-virus moved a file into the chest. I removed this file from the chest and everything is working perfectly. If anyone instalsl the software, maybe make sure that your anti-virus doesn’t do the same as what mine did.

Hopefully this helps someone if they face a similar issue!