Hi Greg, One possibility is to change the default editor that it opens with. This is actually what I do sometimes to speed up xaml page loads. The down side is that you lose intellisense - but if you're having serious problems with crashing this might be a better option.
To do this, right-click on a xaml file, then click Open With. It will pop up the Open With box. Select XML Editor, then click Set as Default. Close your xaml files then re-open them. It should open the files quicker and be more stable. (But lose intellisense which is a huge downer) To change it back to the original editor, right-click on the xaml file, Open With Source Code (Text) editor, then click Set As Default. Click Ok and the page will go back to using the Source code editor. Of course, the Source Code (Text) Editor is likely to be the "source" of the problems you're experiencing. Regards, Tony On Tue, May 4th, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I rebuilt my new machine last Xmas I have been suffering a > terrible > intermittent problem where Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes when I edit > the > XAML of a Silverlight control. By "edit" I mean "open with" the XAML > designer, the XML editor or even the text source editor. There will > be a 2 > second delay after the file opens and VS2008 will crash and ask to > close, > but it does not close and I have to kill the task. > > > > This disease comes in unpredictable waves. Sometimes I don't see it > for a > week, and then it happens for weeks non-stop (as it is now). I often > have to > delete all the .suo and .user files to get the solution to open up > again. > There must be some unknown environmental thing that I alter to cause > the > problem to start and stop, but I've no idea what it might be. > > > > I have lost dozens of man hours of valuable working time so far this > year > and it can sometimes cut my daily productivity by half, or worse. I'm > in > that situation now, falling behind because I can't edit control XAML > in > VS2008. I'm sometimes using Notepad, sometimes Blend 3 (but that > stinking > ill-conceived incomprehensible tortuously quirky weird-looking app > gives me > the merdes). > > > > I mention this problem partly because I'm mad as hell, and partly in > case > someone else might have suffered that same way and knows of some > hotfix or > similar cure. > > > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
