Visual Studio 2008

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

PinalBhatt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:42:38 GMT

Pecha:

It works well for me all time, but today I have experienced the same problem. I've executed the following commands in the VS 2008 Command Prompt and this helped me:

devenv /setup
devenv /resetuserdata
devenv /resetsettings CSharp

This worked for me.

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

Tom_Regan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:01:30 GMT

Thanks for posting that Pecha, that fixed it for me as well.

There are many posts with the advice of opening VS in safemode. That did not work for me; VS still crashed with no error message.

When I followed the steps listed by Pecha, then clicked "Choose Items..." from toolbox context menu, I received an error message telling me about an assembly that could not be shown in the customize toolbox dialog bcause it is missing one or more components (for me is was Atalasoft.dotImage.Ocr.GlyphReader.dll). I was able to click "OK" on the error message and then choose my toolbox items.

I'm guessing that some bug caused VS to crash on this missing component instead of showing the error message. The steps listed by Pecha re-enables VS to handle the error gracefully.

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

alexey — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:39:40 GMT

I also had the same problem on XP with VS 2008 installed i just excecute my IDE throw devenv/safemode and added the dlls.

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

kaugusto — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:43:42 GMT

To fix this problem, I installed and remove the Power Command add-in.

Link to download the Power Command : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=PowerCommands&DownloadId=951

Tks

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

ChevNova72 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:41:02 GMT

I had the same problem and fixed it by removing the Power Command Add-in.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their experience!!!

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

laguy88 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:47:15 GMT

Hi Mikhail,

Yes, PowerCommands 1.1

Downloaded from here:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=559

PowerCommands.msi
runtime binary, 276K, uploaded Apr 11 - 24488 downloads

Regards, LA Guy

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:26:11 GMT

Well, at setup time components may be re-jitted so reinstall perhaps fixed incompatibility with updated framework and CLR. Are you using the latest version of the PWC?

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

laguy88 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:32 GMT

Yep, after uninstalling PowerCommands for Visual Studio ( Vista Ultimate )

the Toolbox Choose Items no longer crashes.

But, I want to use PowerCommands especially to remove unwanted projects.

Is there a way to fix this incompatibility with PowerCommands ?

UPDATE to this message:

I just re-installed the PowerCommands msi and the choose items no longer crashes.

Go figure ....

Thanks, LA Guy

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

tjbarbour — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:43:43 GMT

I uninstalled Power Commands, and now this works fine for me and Add Items does not crash

So, check your add ons!

Hope this helps, Thanx

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

laguy88 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:56:16 GMT

HooHa:

devenv /setup
devenv /resetuserdata
devenv /resetsettings CSharp

I just uninstalled VS 2008 sp1 Beta - using the Utility ....

I then installed the VS 2008 sp1 RTM

and now Choose Items throws an Exception every time.

I'm wondering if Visual Studio PowerCommands msi install might be the culprit ?

Anyway to uninstall the PowerCommands ?

Should I start over and re-install VS 2008 again ?

Best way to remove / uninstall the current version completely ?

Your help is much appreciated, LA Guy

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

HooHa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:03:45 GMT

Pecha:

It works well for me all time, but today I have experienced the same problem. I've executed the following commands in the VS 2008 Command Prompt and this helped me:

devenv /setup
devenv /resetuserdata
devenv /resetsettings CSharp

Thank you for listing your tips. I will give these a shot. Hopefully this will do the trick.

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

Pecha — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:31:26 GMT

It works well for me all time, but today I have experienced the same problem. I've executed the following commands in the VS 2008 Command Prompt and this helped me:

devenv /setup
devenv /resetuserdata
devenv /resetsettings CSharp

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

HooHa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:28:50 GMT

jeremyw:

I have exactly the same problem it would seem... did you have any luck finding a solution to this?

Unfortunately no. I had this problem happen once last year in VS 2005 and was able to remedy it by cleaning up temp files and defaulting the environment but that didn't do anything with my situation now. I'll post back if I find a solution.

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

jeremyw — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:26:39 GMT

I have exactly the same problem it would seem... did you have any luck finding a solution to this?

Re: Choose Items crashing Visual Studio 2008

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:44:15 GMT

If you want to file a bug, please obtain a crash dump as described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/07/25/678308.aspx and file a bug at http://connect.microsoft.com