VS2022 Resource Editor Problems

Question

I've been following through the Microsoft Learn documentation for Getting Started with Win32 and C++ but I've run into a lot of problems with the resource editor in Visual Studio 2022. ( https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/accelerator-tables)

It started out saying it was unable to open a file, then it progressed to access denied, now the build just fails stating file not found for things which don't look like they're supposed to be files.

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I also experience a lot of crash to desktops when trying to work with resources in VS.

Is there a way to get this tool to work better, or just disable it altogether?

Answer

Try this for your skeleton resource.h and filename.rc -

resource.h

//{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}
// Microsoft Visual C++ generated include file.
// Used by filename.rc

// Next default values for new objects
// 
#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#ifndef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#define _APS_NEXT_RESOURCE_VALUE        101
#define _APS_NEXT_COMMAND_VALUE         40001
#define _APS_NEXT_CONTROL_VALUE         1001
#define _APS_NEXT_SYMED_VALUE           101
#endif
#endif

filename.rc

// Microsoft Visual C++ generated resource script.
//
#include "resource.h"

#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 2 resource.
//
#include "winres.h"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// English (United States) resources

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// TEXTINCLUDE
//

1 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "resource.h\0"
END

2 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "#include ""winres.h""
"
    "\0"
END

3 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "
"
    "\0"
END

#endif    // APSTUDIO_INVOKED

#endif    // English (United States) resources
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////



#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 3 resource.
//


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#endif    // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED

Note that the .rc file you posted omitted the content from TEXTINCLUDE2

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