Have you tried attaching WinDbg to your Visual Studio instance?
Tatham Oddie posted an article how he used this to debug a VS crash;
You might not fix your problem per se but if you knew what caused it
could perhaps work around it.
its an interesting read anyway.
http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2010/10/07/yet-another-debugging-tale-visual-studio-disappearing/
On 13/06/2011 2:59 PM, Peter Maddin wrote:
After months of developing my project using VS2010 has just recently
has started crashing.
If I open any xaml user control VS2010 reports a problem and must close.
When I last had this problem I deleted the solutions .suo file and
this seemed to fix the problem.
I tried this again but no joy.
I have basically finished coding my project and want to clean it up
and complete source code documentation.
When one gets this one sort of problem ones gets an awful sinking feeling.
I have Xaml Power Tools 2010 installed. I have stopped this running.
I am using Kellerman Software's logging assembly. I have removed all
references to this.
This made no difference at all.
Everytime I start VS2010 and then open any xaml user control even a
basic one that I used as a base for the actual ones it crashes.
Stop VS2010 and start it again but adding a new wpf window to the
project causes vs2010 to crash.
Stop VS2010 and start it again but adding a new WPF project targeting
.net 4.0 to the solution crashes vs2010.
Stop VS2010 and start it again and then creating a brand new solution
with a single WPF project crashes vs2010.
I know others have suffered this problem see
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/556808/vs2010-crashes-when-opening-xaml-file
In this case the culprit was Ankh. Re-installation fixed this.
*Has anyone else suffered this problem?*
I am currently installing Service Pack 1.
If this does not fix the problem, I will have to re-install VS2010.
If I still get a problem I guess its report a bug and sending crash
dumps of to Microsoft.
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