Mikahil:

Runs fine for a few minutes.

Bang. HResult 0x80070006 ErrorCode = 0x0 A fatal error has occured and debugging needs to be...

Or Website found Waiting for response - for two minutes. Eventually loads but in essence renders VS 2008 non functional as a development environment.

VS2008 Pro running on Vista Ultimate, 2Gb ram, 4Gb ready boost. SqlServer 2005, IIS. Yes, hotfix applied.

No, I never received the product key. Build output in earlier post.

Wonderful,

Bill

Group:

We are still experiencing the freezes occasionally. However we do have some additional information regarding the hanging that might help find a solution.

 When we switch from design view back to code view, we often find a very large, random  amount of code selected by the IDE when no source code had been previously selected at all by the programmer. If we clear that code selection by clicking anywhere on the page, and then hit the save and save all buttons a few times, the hanging  stops. We cannot reproduce what is causing the IDE to select large portions of code or what causes the loading hang. We have observed that after a few minutes of doing nothing in the IDE, the loading hang will also disappear and the IDE will resume reasonably normal operation.

We can also get the hang to stop if we do something with the IDE, say remove a toolbar or add a toolbar, then the hang stops on the next load. Obviously an IDE issue. Almost feels like it periodically takes the IDE time to do some garbage collecting or something, no logic to that thought, just a gut feeling.

Second, the IDE seems to periodically lose contact with the css file in the theme, showing large numbers of style css names as undefined. A few minutes later, it is OK. Weird.

Hope this helps someone get the bugs out of VS2008

Cheers, Bill

Group:

We have found at least one workaround for the hanging issue when running the project. If we use the split view mode for our content pages, instead of going between source and code, the hang in loading the project is gone. Completely.

Hope this helps somebody.

Cheers,

Bill

This is interesting. In VS 2008 there is no view switch, only window resize. I.e. Split view and Design view are the same thing, only that Source pane is resized to zero. Are you experiencing problems when running the project or when editing?

Mikhail:

Ah what a dry wit. Semantics eh? VS2008 hangs when running, the work-around is applicable to editing. When viewing a web content form, you have three tabs at the bottom, Design, Split, Source. If you keep the view to Split, then the hang when running disappears. it you view the web content form in Source or Design view then the hang when running reappears after a few runs.

 The freeze throwing the error in the Subject of this email seems to have lessened since using the workaround.

Does that help?

Cheers,

Bill