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Mar 02 2010
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Toolbox –> "Choose items" crashes Visual Studio

If you ever encounter a crash when choosing the items to display in Visual Studios toolbox, then try this solution:

 

  • Start Visual Studio in safe mode using:  Start->Run->devenv /safemode
  • In the Toolbox “Choose items”, accept any error message the appear
  • Restart Visual Studio as per normal and the problem should be fixed.
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Dec 04 2009
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Crashes when exiting the application, in module ModName:msenv.dll

After recently increasing my monitor setup to 3 flat screens! I decided to embark on the ultimate 2-window Visual Studio layout, docking most of my non-text editor windows on monitor 2. After lots of precision placements of windows, I thought I had better close Visual Studio so that it saves my new layout. Well fat chance!

Visual Studio threw up the depressing “Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a Problem and needs to close.”

Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close

 

For a laugh I decided to fire off the error report via the “Send Error Report” button. The subsequent confirmation button had a link on it which I almost missed.

Visual Studio 2008 Send Error Report

 

Clicking on this link took you to a rather generic looking Windows Error Reporting page:

Windows Error Reporting Page

However out of curiosity I followed the link to the KB article, expecting it to be next to useless in solving my issue. However imagine my surprise when the article was 100% relative!

KB 960075 Fixes issues with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 IDE crashes when changing the window layout. Hooray for Windows Error reporting, it actually works {on incredibly rare occasions}.

 

UPDATE: I ended up reading the comments on http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB960075 before installing the hotfix and “Window->Reset Window Layout” fixed the crashes for me. In the end I didn’t bother to install the hot fix.

 

2nd UPDATE: Okay so I *DID* have to install it in the end, and it worked fine.

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