I have a strange problem/bug when I have many I believe .net Applications Open at once.
I may at one point have 3 Visual Studio 2005 Projects open (big or small doesn't really matter) 2 Visual Studio 2003 Projects open & sql2005 Management Studio. Or various combinations of either/or. Always when I've got quite a bit open.
What happens is at some point it decides that it can't do any more. ie: opening a new Visual Studio Opens very strangly (tabs removed and seen as a window floating), hear the windows error beeps with no popup, or bombs out. No Error Messages No nothing. Or.. in one of the Programs I've written it won't draw a Form Properly.. Or... very indertimined
Though when I close 1 or 2 of the Programs, you can then load up another Visual Studio or the Program starts working properly again..
I've check ram usage and only really appear to be using around the 2G mark. The machine has 4G though being Win XP 32 bit I'm not sure if this will be the issue. I've done extensive ram testing with mem test over a weekend with no issues.
Is this just happening to me or is this possible a Microsoft Common to all Frameworks Bug??? Garbage Collector??
The reason I'm thinking MS framework is I can still keep opening Word or Notepad or a Java App a 100 times without a worry.
I thought I'd ask because I'm sure I'm not the only one to have more than a couple of Solutions open at once, and not seen this bug at some point.