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VS2005 IDE Crash!

Hi folks!
I have an "interesting" problem with the IDE of VS2005 which crashes with no warning or error messages! Below I send info from my PC. The crash happens very often (every 15min) but I have not seen a pattern yet that causes the crash. It happens when I do simple things like clicking at the IDE's menus.
I run WinXP SP2 and develop asp.net solutions in C#. I heard that there is a SP for VS2005 but it is still in beta phase and I am a bit reluctunt to install it.
I know all of the info below is overwhelming... if you have time please let me know what I can we do to solve this crash.

Thanks in advance!
George I.
Below is my system information:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727
Installed Edition: Professional
Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77626-009-0000007-41453
Microsoft Visual C# 2005
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 77626-009-0000007-41453
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Microsoft Visual J# 2005 77626-009-0000007-41453
Microsoft Visual J# 2005
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 77626-009-0000007-41453
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005
Crystal Reports AAC60-G0CSA4B-V7000AY
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005

I am also sending you the info from the windows application log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 27/9/2006
Time: 3:49:46 μμ
User: N/A
Computer: IT-T-7905
Description:
Fault bucket 127043675.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 31 32 37 30 34 33 36 37 12704367
0010: 35 0d 0a 5..
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: (101)
Event ID: 1002
Date: 27/9/2006
Time: 3:49:39 μμ
User: N/A
Computer: IT-T-7905
Description:
Hanging application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 65 78 70 6c 6f 72 explor
0018: 65 72 2e 65 78 65 20 36 er.exe 6
0020: 2e 30 2e 32 39 30 30 2e .0.2900.
0028: 32 31 38 30 20 69 6e 20 2180 in
0030: 68 75 6e 67 61 70 70 20 hungapp
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 0.0.0.0
0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
0048: 74 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 t 000000
0050: 30 30 00

[2784 byte] By [Ilios78] at [2007-12-24]
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# 1

let's hope to help you here.

Have you tried to restore the settings of the IDE back to default?

start > run > devenv /resetide

Does this happen with any project or just a specific one?

how big is the project? VS2005 is known to apparently have some problems with large projects, could be one reason for this happening.

What happens if you leave it as is when it appears to have crashed? Do you see any activity going on? (Check the HDD led)

ahmedilyas at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
# 2
First of all thanks for your reply.
I tried what you said from a command prompt window and this is what i got:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE>devenv /resetide

Microsoft (R) Visual Studio Version 8.0.50727.42.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved.

Invalid Command Line. Unknown Switch : resetide.

Use:
devenv [solutionfile | projectfile | anyfile.ext] [switches]
...
...
...

Nevertheless I have come to the conclusion that it a custom reference that causes the crash since the IDE crashes only when I open projects that include that specific reference. A good question now is how do I debug my custom reference? And how could my custom reference library cause a crash in the IDE in the first place? My project is very small, I have only created 3 aspx pages and have not yet used/access my custom reference library in any of them. It has only been added as reference to the project! And here comes the crash, I open VS2005, load the project and within 2-3 minutes without doing anything (not even moving the mouse) the IDE crashes!

Please any hint would be helpfull, and again thanks for all your help!

Ilios78 at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
# 3

Well ASP.NET related questions should be posted at the ASP.NET forums, since its dedicated for ASP.NET:

http://forums.asp.net

If it's a custom reference then I would try to exclude it from the project some how (opening in notepad the solution/project and removing that reference) then re-adding it in VS. Again, best place to ask would be the ASP.NET forums since it's an ASP.NET related question

ahmedilyas at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
# 4

For VS2005 - the command line you are looking for seems to be "devenv /resetsettings"

I hope this helps - I have been having similar crashes while adding Data Sources via the Wizard - and hope this corrects the problem.

DBottaro at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
# 5
actually its /resetide for VS2005 ;-)
ahmedilyas at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
# 6

I've had many many crashes in the VS2005 IDE. Usually, they involve data controls...I think. Anyway, I have installed the very large SP1 beta and, though there are still bugs, I have not had a crash.

~cj

polymorphicx at 2007-10-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual C#,Visual C# IDE...
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