title: Dynamics 365 Report Authoring Extension Crashes Visual Studio 2015
body: <p>After installing the Dynamics CRM Report Authoring Extension <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50375" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="here">here</a>, both Visual Studio 2015 and SQL Server Data Tools 2015 crash on startup, occassionally immediately after the splash-screen but usually after the UI loads. </p>
  
  <p>If I uninstall the extension and run the command <code>devenv.exe /resetsettings</code> I can get Visual Studio to stop crashing, but obviously can't develop my reports. </p>
  
  <p>I've already reinstalled VS and rebooted. How do I get past this?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>I recreated the problem on another machine. Here's the steps to reproduce, be careful though since even reinstalls aren't fixing this:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Install VS 2015</li>
  <li>Install SSDT 2015 </li>
  <li>Attempt to Install Report Authoring Extension 2015. Install should fail.      </li>
  <li>Attempt to Install 2016 Report Authoring Extension. Install should fail. </li>
  <li>Follow the steps <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2988630/fatal-error-during-installation-of-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2013-report-authoring-extensions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> to fix the registry. </li>
  <li>Reinstall the 2016 Report Authoring Extension</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now Visual Studio should crash on startup</p>
  
  <p>EDIT 2:</p>
  
  <p>After reinstalling Windows I've hit the same problem. Visual Studio 2015 Professional. This time the only thing I did was install the 2016 Report Authoring Extension and Visual Studio crashes on startup. I uninstalled the extension but the problem is still happening.</p>