Hello Everyone:

   Within the past few weeks, I downloaded the Ajax Toolkit, and installed the extender tools into my toolbar.  It would seem now that certain things that I do makes the whole thing crash.  I'm not positive that its the toolkit, but all of this started after I included it in VS.

 It seems to be spotty, in some instances I can make VS crash every time, while others work just fine.  For example, I have a page with two update panels with two buttons, two labels with dropdown extenders, a calendar extender, and some normal textboxes.  If I try to resize either one of the buttons, or one of the labels, VS crashes.  I have not tested going into the source side and putting a value in, only by using the mouse and stretching the control.

Anyone ever see this or have this problem?

Thanks,

Joe

Try the basic: remove and add again the Ajax Toolkit, close and open Visual Studio.

See if you installed correctly, try this: http://www.asp.net/Ajax/Documentation/Live/InstallingASPNETAJAX.aspx

Regards,

I did a little more digging, and have learned:

It's most likely the Ajax Toolkit maybe conflicting with something on my machine, or something in the library itself.  I do have the September 2009 binary.  If I remove the reference, save the project, close VS, restart VS, then try to reproduce the problem, I cannot.

I am running VS 2008 with 3.5 SP1 since I did a "repair installation" which didn't help, then did a uninstall of the whole thing, then a reinstall, and that didn't help either.

Its devenv.exe that's crashing.  With the current project I have, I can do it every time.   I've even made it crash in several ways.

devenv.exe is version 9.0.21022.8

All I have to do is place a label on my form, and change its width.  Does not matter how I do it either.  I found this out because I'm having trouble getting the handles on the controls to appear when I hover over them with the mouse.  When they do, I have trouble grabbing the right side because the arrow pops up asking me if I want to add an extender.  So I went to properties, changed the width, then clicked elsewhere on the form.  I get a Microsoft C++ runtime error telling me the application asked the runtime to terminate in an unsual way.  Then I get the choose a debugger screen.  The exception code in brackets at the top (I'm assuming that's the exception ) is different every time.  Nothing of intrest in the event log.

Anyone know how I might be able to catch this error by using the source code? Since its causing a problem in devenv, I'm not sure how I could catch it

Maybe its a corrupt project, but this is really my first serious attempt in using the Ajax libraries so I have nothing to compare it to.

I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can at least give me some info on how I can track this down and if it is a problem with the library and not my machine, let someone know.  If not, post the answer in case this happens elsewhere.