Crash in Visual Studio 2008 IDE
I have the following configuration:
- Visual Studio Team System 2008
- SQL Server Developer Edition 2008
- GDR2
on a Win XP SP3 workstation.
I have no add-ons.
All fixes have already been applied for Visual Studio, Sql Server and Windows.
Nothing is displayed in the event log.
My IDEs for Management Studio (ssms.exe) and VS (devenve.exe) keep crashing on me several times a day. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS2008 and SQL but no luck.
How can I start figuring out what is still wrong and fix it?
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Crash when you do something specific? Can you find any magazine with useful information?
The information you have provided is not sufficient to know what the problem is, but as a guide, you should do the following:
- Ask Visual Studio to register your troubleshooting activity .
- Try to uninstall or disable all IDE addons, some plugins can knock out the whole IDE and this is a very common reason for VS to crash. or:
- Use the / SafeMode option, which prevents all addons from loading.
- Download and install all available Windows updates.
- Download and install any available updates and fixes for Visual Studio.
- If all else fails, you can report it to Microsoft and wait for their feedback.
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I wrote an article some time ago How to Debug Crashes and Hangs . In it, I illustrate how to determine what Visual Studio is doing during a crash, shows you how to get the call stack, save the minidrive, and report the problem to Microsoft. If you post a bug at http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio/feedback and attach a call stack and miniskirt, chances are high that we can help you.
If you want to investigate your problem, I suggest you read the article linked above, get the call stack (with the symbols loaded), log the connection error, and attach the call stack and minidump with the heap (these will help you to attach the heap as it is a very large file ).
Hope it helps,
Kirill Osenkov
Visual C # IDE QA, Microsoft
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