I tried to debug the console Hello world template generated code with Release Candidate 8 on Windows 8.1 64bit.
Access Violation bug persists.
EDIT: I didn't initially read closely but I see now that Timo already mentioned this in his original post.
EDIT 2:
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^] is a work around that I came up with in order to debug my console application on Win 8.1 64bit until such time as this bug gets fixed.