Visual Studio 11 Beta: Visual Studio may crash when you create or open a C++ project

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

You install the French or Japanese localized version of Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Ultimate, Professional, or Premium.
You install a Visual Studio 11 language pack and then set the language pack’s language to be the active language for Visual Studio 11 Beta.
You create or open a C++ project in Visual Studio 11 Beta.

In this scenario, Visual Studio 11 Beta may crash.

Cause

This issue occurs because the Visual Studio 11 Beta language pack installers look for a certain registry key that does not exist. Because the key does not exist, the installer skips installing important resources. Depending on fallback logic, this situation causes Visual Studio to display either the wrong language strings or the application fault dialog box.

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Resolution

To resolve this issue, add the appropriate registry key before you install the language pack. Or if the language pack is already installed, add the registry key and then repair the language pack installation. To add the registry key, run one of the following commands at an administrator command prompt.

32-bit Windows

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\11.0\compilerCore /v Version /d 11.0

64-bit Windows

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\11.0\compilerCore /v Version /d 11.0

f the language pack is already installed, follow these steps after you add the registry key:

In the Programs and Features item in Control Panel, select the language pack name, and then select Modify.
When the dialog box appears, select Reinstall.

Instead of executing the registry commands, you can download the registry files that are available at one of the following Microsoft websites.