I know better. I installed vs2008 sp1 rtm before waiting for 20,000 other people to do it wihout incident. Not a good practice for a ms sp.

Anyway - the first thing that happened is that my AJAX Toolkit tab disapeared - so I attempted to recreate it by adding a new tab - right clicking - and selecting "Choose Items". The choose items dialoge never even showed up - I got an hour glass for about two minutes - then vs just shut down - no warning - no anything. I tried this many times - after rebooting - still the same result. I found this in the application event log:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)

I googled it but no results. I am running Xp sp2 (I already heard the horror stories about that sp(3))  I had also installed sp1 for the .Net 3.5 framework. I use AJAX a lot and need my tools - please help if you can.

Also - the extendor flyouts on controls for AJAX are now missing in design view.

Thanks

Same problem here.  Installed SP1 yesterday and now when trying to add items to the toolbox I get the same crash with the following logged in the event viewer:

Do you have any third party add-ons installed? I've heard of a situation where PowerCommands 1.01 for instance might be causing pretty random crashes and uninstalling them fixes the issue.  

If we can't figure it out through this means, I'd be interested in obtaining a crash dump to look into this and will supply instructions.

 I do have Infragistics 2006 vol 3 CLR 2. I am not using it and do not mind uninstalling it. I also have VisualWebGui. I have just been experimenting with that - no production work yet.

Are you telling meb that we can no longer use 3rd party controls with VS2008 ?

johndund:

Do you have any third party add-ons installed? I've heard of a situation where PowerCommands 1.01 for instance might be causing pretty random crashes and uninstalling them fixes the issue.  

If we can't figure it out through this means, I'd be interested in obtaining a crash dump to look into this and will supply instructions.

Fatal Execution Engine typically means CLR failed to load one of the assemblies. We are simply trying to indentify which one. Perhaps component needs to be updated?

No, I am definitely not saying that .  I'm just trying to get you up and running as soon as possible.  Whatever the issue is I want to be able to find the issue and solve it.  If uninstalling certain 3rd party frameworks that might be party to a crash in VS helps for now, hopefully that can be a temporary solution until we find a better one (i.e. fix the incompatibility somehow).

To give a crash dump, please follow the instructions here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/07/25/678308.aspx.  However please also include heap data with your dump (change the "Save As Type" to include heap data).  This will be a HUGE file, so please email me at my username at microsoft dot com and I'll set you up with a place to place this dump so we can take a look.  Sorry you're having the trouble--hopefully we can get this figured out for you.

Thanks,

John

I have DevExpress Code Rush and Refactor Pro installed.  I disabled the add-in via tools add in manager and still got the crash.  I then disabled and set to not start up when starting visual studio and then restarted visual studio.  Still got the crash.  I then unistalled Code Rush and Refactor and tried again.  No crash.  Reinstalled DevExpress and now the add items is working perfectly.  Thanks for the add-in suggestion as I hadn't thought of that being involved when loading the add items dialog.

One difference I did notice is that when I had the DevExpress add-in loaded the crash I got was the usual "Do you want to send this to Microsoft" crash.  When the add-in was unloaded Visual Studio just disapearred with no warning or message.

 Thanks,

Jeff

One thing to add is I'm not positive this just started happening with Service Pack 1.  I don't think I have added a toolbox item for a while so it may be completely unrelated to my Service Pack 1 install yesterday.

SP1 updates frmework assemblies. Perhaps third party components had certain hard dependencies on version numbers and after running setup again they got re-bound to new versions? Just a theory.

 John -

I uninstalled Infragistics - found no uninstall for VisualWebGui. Still the same symptoms. I then tried the same thing  weaver_je  did as I also have refactor. Now I do get the dialoge and I can add a new tab - choose the ites to add - and no crash - BUT - the items do not get added to the new tab or anywhere else. Still trying to add the AJAX Toolkit controls. So....  I am going to take you up on the offer and emil you at ms for delivery instructins for the crash dump.

 WOW - this thing has me so frustrated I'm not even thinking straight. Since I'm not crashing anymore I guess the crash dump analyser is no longer of value?? Any suggestions.

Thanks,

Jim

johndund:

No, I am definitely not saying that .  I'm just trying to get you up and running as soon as possible.  Whatever the issue is I want to be able to find the issue and solve it.  If uninstalling certain 3rd party frameworks that might be party to a crash in VS helps for now, hopefully that can be a temporary solution until we find a better one (i.e. fix the incompatibility somehow).

To give a crash dump, please follow the instructions here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/07/25/678308.aspx.  However please also include heap data with your dump (change the "Save As Type" to include heap data).  This will be a HUGE file, so please email me at my username at microsoft dot com and I'll set you up with a place to place this dump so we can take a look.  Sorry you're having the trouble--hopefully we can get this figured out for you.

Thanks,

John

I also have one thng to add. After installing the sp's for the frmwork and vs2008 - I ran Windows Update as suggested by the installers. One of the updates was to the desktop search or someting similar... Now - every time I boot Windows (xp sp2) I get the following error:

Windows Search System Tray has encountered a problem and needs to close.

I never got this ever untill I ran Windows Update after the sp installs - and now I get it every boot. I did send the report off to ms a few times.

If I understand you correctly, when you do a "Choose Items..." on the toolbox, you see all the items get added and they're checked, but when you hit OK and you take yourself into a web application or web site, you don't see the controls available?  If you do a "Show All" on the toolbox, do you see them?  Are all the other controls working, or can you not add any controls to the toolbox?  If you do a reset toolbox and try the process again, does it make any difference?

Thanks,

John

johndund:

If I understand you correctly, when you do a "Choose Items..." on the toolbox, you see all the items get added and they're checked, but when you hit OK and you take yourself into a web application or web site, you don't see the controls available?  If you do a "Show All" on the toolbox, do you see them?  Are all the other controls working, or can you not add any controls to the toolbox?  If you do a reset toolbox and try the process again, does it make any difference?

 

Thanks,

John

Uninstalling PowerCommands worked for me.  I had VS2008SP1 on WinXPSP3.  I couldn't load the XAML files without VS disappearing.  Thanks for the tip.

Hi Everyone,

I'm working with my QA team to try and repro this and we can't seem to repro this in house.

For those who ran into this problem, can you let us know which OS you were running and also what other VS related applications were installed?  To get a list of MSIs installed, run msiinv.exe.  You can get msiinv.exe from the Windows SDK. If you don't have the windows SDK, you can get the tool from here.

We're trying to repro this and narrow down the failure but can't get it to throw a package load failure or crash on our machines.

thanks.