Visual Studio Silent Crash with Designer

Mar 3 2009 7:30 AM

If you’re encountered an issue where Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes silently whenever you try to open a web form or master page (which by default will open the design view), there is a hotfix that will likely solve the problem. I ran into this recently while working on the Azure MVC templates that Jim Nakashima posted in November. I brought this to his attention (as I’m sure others did as well) and last week he published the details of a hotfix that takes care of this (and other) issues. Eric Hexter and Jeffrey Palermo have also confirmed that this fix has resolved issues they were seeing as well.

7 Comments

Jeffrey Palermo said on Mar 3 2009 at 7:35 AM

Thanks for sending me this!! That problem was really annoying.
Jeffrey Palermo said on Mar 3 2009 at 7:35 AM

Thanks for sending me this!! That problem was really annoying.
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mark said on Jul 1 2009 at 9:40 PM

thanks for the shoutout, very helpful
Robert Claypool said on Jul 28 2009 at 11:33 AM

Thank you for posting this. It really saved me some time! Problem solved!
Ceweqsakti said on Aug 14 2009 at 1:28 AM

I like it friend,i hope we can be friend :D
Why said on Jan 27 2010 at 3:55 AM

God, nothing like something that brings down your whole vs.net env. What is the cause, the reason this is happening?