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For security reasons my company has our development environment set up offline and we have yet to get approval to run windows 7 on those PCs so we're running XP. A few of my coworkers and I have installed VS 2010 and begun a little development in it, however we've found that the IDE crashes at some point during the building process with an 'unhandled exception'.

It works fine when just doing a 'build', but a 'rebuild' seems to crash it every time. Unfortunately we can't get a Debug Dump to give to MS (unless they would let us print it out and mail it to them).

When I attatch another IDE to the one running my project I get this error out of it:

Unhandled exception as 0x05cccccc in devenv.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x6ffe0300.

This is happening with not only preexisting projects, but also new projects (even a console "Hello World" app). It also is happening on Console, WinForms, and WPF apps alike.

Has anyone else experienced a problem like this or has any insight as to what is going on here?

UPDATE: So its been half a month since I reported this problem to Microsoft but they have yet to come up with anything useful. Anyone have any input/advice?

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I haven't seen this behavior myself on XP.

Are you able to repro by the "Clean" option as well as Rebuild?

It seems like a better venue for this kind of bugs is opening a Connect bug to Microsoft. You probably want a better callstack though. I'm not sure if VS posts their symbols but it is something you might try to setup. Instructions on doing so in this link. If they post the symbols it would give you a better idea of what failed.

krolth
No, clean works fine. I have posted on Connect (about a day or two ago) and they have yet to resolve the issue.
smoore