This article describes diagnostic and repair steps to follow if Intel Visual Fortran integration into Microsoft Visual Studio is not working correctly.

The symptoms of errors with Fortran integration into Visual Studio include:

• When opening a Fortran project, an error indicating that the .vfproj project file is not recognized
• Missing Fortran-specific parts of the Visual Studio interface, such as project templates or project properties
• Inability to build a Fortran project

This article applies to Intel Visual Fortran 10.0 through 11.1 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005 or 2008.

Step 1 - are prerequisites met?

Open Microsoft Visual Studio from the Start menu.  Select Help > About.  Look for the following items:

• In Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, make sure that it does not say "Express Edition".  Visual Studio Express Edition is not supported for use with Intel Visual Fortran from within the Visual Studio development environment
• If you are using a Standard, Professional or Team System Edition of Visual Studiom under Installed Products, look to see if "Microsoft Visual C++" is listed. If it is not, reinstall Visual Studio and make sure that the Visual C++ component is installed.  If you are using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition (included with Intel Visual Fortran 10.0, 10.1 and 11.0 - no edition name will be displayed), or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (included with Intel Visual Fortran 11.1), Visual C++ is not required
• Look under Installed Products to see if "Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Integration" is listed and make a note of the version number or "Package ID" displayed, if any.

Close Visual Studio

Step 2 - are the integration files present?

Check to see if the appropriate Intel folder is present.  The paths given here are defaults and may vary on your system:

VS2003: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Intel Fortran\VFPackages
VS2005: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Intel Fortran\VFPackages
VS2008: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Intel Fortran\VFPackages

Check to see if this folder contains six DLL files  Windows may hide the file type for DLL files - the file names are VFAVwin.dll, VFFortSvc.dll, VFHieEditor.dll, VFProj.dll, VFProjConvert.dll, VFToolOpt.dll.  If any of these files are not present, uninstall and reinstall Intel Visual Fortran.

Right click on VFProj.dll and select Properties, then click on the Version tab.  Look at the "File Version" displayed.  It will be in the form of 11.1.3464.2008.  The first two numbers (11.1 here) indicate the compiler version.  These must match that of the most recent version of the compiler installed.  The last number (2008 here) indicates the Visual Studio version this DLL is for.  If the compiler version does not match, uninstall Intel Visual Fortran, delete the entire "Intel Fortran" folder under the appropriate Microsoft Visual Studio folder, then reinstall Intel Fortran.

Step 3 - run the repair tool

If the above steps do not resolve the problem, download the appropriate ZIP file indicated below and run the executable file included within.  Note: If you are running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, run the program by right clicking it and selecting "Run as Administrator". In many cases, this will resolve the problem. If it does not, or if an error during registration of a DLL is noted, contact Intel Support for further options.

VS2003 Repair Tool
VS2005 Repair Tool
VS2008 Repair Tool

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August 18, 2009 1:24 AM PDT rustyruggles Total Points: 5 Registered User

I've done all this, as well as the bits in microsoft 907965, and reinstalled multiple times using Package ID: w_cprof_p_11.0.075, and builds still crash. This is using XP. Should I change to VISTA? Who has another idea?

August 18, 2009 7:44 AM PDT Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

Rusty, this article addresses the issue of Fortran support not appearing or appearing incomplete in Visual Studio. You have a different issue. The first thing I would suggest is to uninstall 11.0, delete the Intel Fortran folder as described above, and install the latest 11.1 (11.1.038 at the time I write this). If that doesn't help, please post in our user forum at http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-visual-fortran-..... r-windows/ and provide as much detail as you can.

August 19, 2009 6:53 AM PDT jchwstbellsouth.net Total Points: 140 Status Points: 90 Green Belt

I have tried everything above. My installation doesn't even have an C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Intel FortranVFPackages folder. I removed and re-installed the entire installation yesterday to no avail. I have downloaded VS2008 repair tool - the executable will not allow me access. I have put my CD installation disc back in and now I get a 1620 error when I try to run the installation. Nothing is working. I have Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition 11.1.035. Should I try to uninstall it again - assuming the uninstall will work. I just put my CD back in and now it is moving forward to the Welcome page. This is the most complicated install I have ever experienced

August 19, 2009 9:09 AM PDT Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

jchwst, please post in the user forum where we can help you. I have some suggestions I will make when you do that.

August 19, 2009 11:28 AM PDT Chris Hewlett

Where would that be?

August 19, 2009 11:29 AM PDT jchwstbellsouth.net Total Points: 140 Status Points: 90 Green Belt

Where would that be?

August 19, 2009 11:55 AM PDT Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

The Intel Visual Fortran forum is at http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-visual-fortran-..... r-windows/

August 24, 2009 10:11 AM PDT Will Young

Dear Steve, I see that Visual Studio 2008 Shell is free from their website. Can I download from there and install manually and then integrate my student version of IVF 11 with it? Which mode -- integrated or isolated -- of the Shell should I install? I prefer simplicity and do not want to have visual studio with C++ on my computer while I only use fortran. Thanks.

September 1, 2009 10:15 AM PDT Bernd

- I have VS2008 installed at D: (no sufficient disk space on C:) - I have to to use "Intel Fortran Compiler 10.1.019" to be compatible within the softwar project. Unfortunatly the integration or 10.1.019 fails if VS is not installed on C: Is there a possiblity to fix the integration manually? I'm annoyed, because this issue had cost me too much working hours already ;( Thank you for your help, Bernd

October 8, 2009 4:25 PM PDT George

I've followed all 3 steps in this article for integration of IVF 11.1.046 with VS 2005. However, the VS 2005 Tools/Options does not include the Intel Fortran environment settings! Help!

October 8, 2009 8:21 PM PDT Intel Software Network Support Total Points: 3,808 Status Points: 3,308 Brown Belt

All, please follow the link Steve posted above to post your issues to the forum. Technical support is not available via the article comments section.

October 8, 2009 9:09 PM PDT cylo Total Points: 5 Registered User

When I use the the visual Fortran 10.038 with visual studio 2008, I found that if I compile the sample about opengl, the compiler told me, there is not glaux.lib. When I have add the IA64 version of glaux, the compiler tell me some basic elmenet of windows, like winapi is not defined. How I I should resolve this problem>

October 8, 2009 9:42 PM PDT george2009 Total Points: 95 Status Points: 45 Green Belt

After upgrading from IVF 10.0.74 to 11.1.046 by using the VS 2008 shell version, the Intel disappear from the Tools/Options. However, the Online Help still states that there should be Intel facility listed there to specific paths for Lib and Include! I checked all 3 steps in this article.. nothing works! Any help is very welcome!

October 9, 2009 9:50 AM PDT Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

cylo, Microsoft removed the glaux library from Visual Studio 2008. You cannot use an IA-64 version if you are doing IA-32 development. If you have a copy of VS2005 you can find glaux.lib there. It may also be in one of the earlier Windows SDK packages. My advice is to stop using the AUX routines. In Intel Visual Fortran 11.1, the OpenGL samples were reworked to not use AUX. george, let's continue your problem in the user forum.

October 16, 2009 1:28 PM PDT clayho Total Points: 5 Registered User

Mine is simple. I have had IVF10 via VS2005 working on big HP with Vista. For traveling I have put it on Toshiba laptop with Vista. When VS editing NO Edit Line Numbers show up. They did on desktop HP. That just about kills tracking down errors. I've searched all the HELPs I can fine but no joy. Please point me to answer. clay

October 16, 2009 1:32 PM PDT Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

Tools > Options > Text Editor > Fortran > General. Check the box Display > Line Numbers. You will have to do this each time you install an Intel Visual Fortran update.

November 19, 2009 11:32 AM PST joey_hylton Total Points: 325 Status Points: 275 Green Belt

Does anyone have this work? I have Intel Fortran 11.1.035 with VS 2005 standard on vista x64 I followed all the steps and found the the version number is: 11.1.3462.2005 The repair program give me the following information, and the project->properties -> fortran-> general option still blank Visual Studio 2005 installed at C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Successfully unregistered VFAVwin.dll Error while unregistering VFFortSvc.dll: Access is denied. Successfully unregistered VFProjConvert.dll Successfully unregistered VFToolOpt.dll Successfully unregistered VFProj.dll Error while registering VFProj.dll: Access is denied. Press any key to exit program

November 19, 2009 11:46 AM PST joey_hylton Total Points: 325 Status Points: 275 Green Belt

Ok, I missed the 'run as adminstrator' But it still doesn't help even I got: Visual Studio 2005 installed at C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Successfully unregistered VFAVwin.dll Successfully unregistered VFFortSvc.dll Successfully unregistered VFProjConvert.dll Successfully unregistered VFToolOpt.dll Successfully unregistered VFProj.dll Successfully registered VFProj.dll Successfully registered VFToolOpt.dll Successfully registered VFProjConvert.dll Successfully registered VFFortSvc.dll Successfully registered VFAVwin.dll Running devenv setup - please wait... All DLLs successfully registered Press any key to exit program

November 19, 2009 8:22 PM PST Steve Lionel (Intel) Total Points: 114,435 Status Points: 114,435 Black Belt

You don't say what is wrong. If the steps in this article did not help, please ask for assistance in our user forum (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-visual-fortran-.....r-windows/) or Intel Premier Support (https://premier.intel.com/)

November 20, 2009 8:51 AM PST joey_hylton Total Points: 325 Status Points: 275 Green Belt

My problem is: Missing Fortran-specific parts of the Visual Studio interface, in the project properties nd the project->properties -> fortran-> general this right panel is blank. ONLY show information in comand lines

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