Notorious Visual Studio Error C1902, VS configuration

Question

I am getting the notorious \"Error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your installation\" in my VC++ builds in Visual Studio 2010. My VS will not even build

Answer 1

I solved the problem by finding an obscure post to a similar thread created a couple of years ago on a different forum. Here is the solution:

Copy the file mspdbsrv.exe from the VisualStudio/Common7/IDE directory to the /VC/bin directory.