Visual Studio closes all the time

Question

My Visual Studio shuts down about once a day. Not gracefully either, it just disappears off the screen, process list, everything. No thinking, no warning, just poof its gone.

This happens most frequently when coderush is trying to do something and lately (the last few days) it happens any time I try to open a view. As of a few hours ago it is also happening every time I open Globals.asx.cs in an MVC project.

So this is not exactly a programming question but this has been happening for a while and now with ASP.NET MVC out for real it is happening more and more often.

I get the following error in my event log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3082 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035FC0) (80131506)

I also have the following VS2008 plugins

• Coderush/Refactor Pro! from DevExpress
• ASP MVC
• Testdriven.NET
• T4 Toolbox
• ASP.NET MVC
• MbUnit/Gallio
• Source Outliner
• AnkhSVN (installed very recently)
• Oracle Developer Tools

Has anyone had this problem or can even direct me to where to seek a solution?

Answer 1

You might need to slowly peel back your extensions. The ones that I suspect are:

1. Source Outliner
2. AnkhSVN
3. Oracle Developer Tools

For no other reason than it sounds like an unmanaged extension that would be trampling the process like that.

Answer 2

Well, I have nothing but the standard troubleshooting tips for VS for you:

• Check that you have SP1 installed (and any further updates)
• Delete (rename) all temporary files in your solution such as .suo, .ncb, ...
• Disable all add-ins one by one until the error is gone. Since you have AnkhSVN installed only lately this might be a good first guess...

Also helpful for an analysis are the tools from the Sysinternals Suite, mostly I would recommend you DbgView and ProcMon.

There is another similar thread you should check out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/334706/fatal-execution-engine-error-79ffee24-80131506

They also mention a hotfix released by Microsoft: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0

As Chris posted this hotfix is mentioned to fix a problem with ASP.NET MVC and Resharper.

Answer 3

A crazy idea that might work:

Open 2 instances of Visual Studio. On one instance you work on your code. On the other you can open some random solution, set it to Debug, then use Attach to Process to attach the first Visual Studio instance to that.

Hopefully when an exception occurs on the first instance which may cause it to crash, the second instance will provide a clue as to what went wrong.

Answer 4

Two possibilities here:

1. Hotfix for Crash related to MVC and plugins
2. Reinstall SP1 (I had a coworker who had crashes all the time reapply the SP and it fixed his issue; In his case he had installed VS Database Edition after installing SP1).

Answer 5

I had to remove the silverlight debugging assembly and I stopped getting the issue.

Answer 6

For me, the problem was Gallio 3.0.6.763. After uninstalling, I'm able to load projects in VS2008 again.

Answer 7

I had ASP.Net MVC and Gallio 3.0.6.763. I removed Gallio, and now Visual Studio works as expected.

Answer 8

I had the same issue. Removing Gallio was also the solution for me. It seems to be some type of conflict between Gallio and ASP.NET MVC projects. I would only get the problem when trying to open an MVC project, specifically a view.

Answer 9

In my case I had to uninstall vwmware 6.5 cuz it was causing the issue. weird.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/170431

Answer 10

I fixed this by uninstalling the WSCF.blue add on.