From one of my favorite programmer fail sites, The Daily WTF (republished with permission):
“We have some notoriously bad code in our project,” wrote Robby Lann, ” so much so that the Compiler throws a ‘SHEEIT’ Exception and advises us to start over.”
Error 7 A problem occurred while trying to set the "Resources" parameter for the IDE's in-process compiler. External component has thrown an exception. Error 8 The "Vbc" task failed unexpectedly. System.Runtime.InteropServices.SHEEITException: External component has thrown an exception. at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Hosting.IVbcHostObject.EndInitialization() at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostCompiler(IVbcHostObject vbcHostObject) at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostObject() at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolTask.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) Error 9 Visual Basic compiler is unable to recover from the following error: System Error &Hc0000005& (Visual Basic internal compiler error) Save your work and restart Visual Studio. Error 11 A problem occurred while trying to set the "Resources" parameter for the IDE's in-process compiler. External component has thrown an exception. Error 12 The "Vbc" task failed unexpectedly. System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception. at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Hosting.IVbcHostObject.EndInitialization() at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostCompiler(IVbcHostObject vbcHostObject) at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostObject() at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolTask.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) Error 13 A problem occurred while trying to set the "Resources" parameter for the IDE's in-process compiler. External component has thrown an exception. Error 14 The "Vbc" task failed unexpectedly. System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception. at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Hosting.IVbcHostObject.EndInitialization() at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostCompiler(IVbcHostObject vbcHostObject) at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Vbc.InitializeHostObject() at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolTask.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) SiteConvert
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