Visual Studio crashing all the time

I have two virtual servers running, one with Team Foundation server Beta 3 and Sql 2005, and one with Visual Studion Team edition RC installed.

When working on the Visual Studio box, it constantly crashes and especially when working with tests.

Both virtual machines have 1500 MB of memory allocated. Is this not enough maybe?

I had the previos betas installed as well and they did not crash this often. Seems a bit too much for a rc...

Has anyone else been having similar issues?

[495 byte] By [JonasR?ineslien] at [2007-12-17]
# 1
We are certainly not seeing frequent crashes on recent builds. Did the VPCs previously have older versions of VSTS on them? Perhaps there's a conflict between multiple versions of VSTS.

Josh

JoshChristieMS at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 2
Hello Jonas,

Could you give us more details about the situation in which it crashes? Is it during debugging of tests? What kind of tests do you have? How many tests do you have in your solution?

Thanks,

BorisVidolovMSFT at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 3
Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. It is mostly when I am working with testlists, then saving the list and running the tests. This has made VS crash almost every time.
There are 8 tests in the list, so not alot.

Most other tasks inside VS seems to be working fine for me though..

JonasR?ineslien at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 4

Hi Josh,

It was clean installs on all vpc's, so I don't think that was the problem.

- Jonas

JonasR?ineslien at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 5
Is the VSMDI file checked into TFS?
dhoptonMSFT at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 6

No, it usually happens either when I have created a new testlist and are adding tests to it, or when adding tests to an old list, but both times the testlist is checked out.

JonasR?ineslien at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...
# 7

I have also started seeing crashes when working with web tests. Specifically when I am renaming tests within the Solution Explorer I have VS crash completely, nothing is captured to send a bug report. I find that the file within the project directory has been renamed but the .vbproj file is not updated and as such I either have to manually update the vbproj file or rename the project file back to the old name to have things line up.

Here is the version info for my install:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual C# 2005

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005

Microsoft Visual J# 2005 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual J# 2005

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Architects 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Testers 77718-204-0000007-41203
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers

Crystal Reports AAC60-G0CSA4B-V7000AY
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005


SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Designer
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SQL Server Integration Services
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 9.00.2047.00

SQL Server Reporting Services
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 9.00.2047.00

JayLegue at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing...

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