Visual Studio 2005 crashing while debugging
I have a problem recently that has caused me great annoyance. I'm currently developing BizTalk 2006 solutions in Visual Studio 2005. When I want to test some custom code, I use the "Attach to Process" option in the Debug menu, and have the IDE debug the managed code.
This is great, as I can see what is going through a real system and see what variables get populated etc.
Alas, it all went wrong the other day, and when I selected the BizTalk process to attach to, and clicked Attach, Visual Studio crashed. Not very handy.
It coughed up two errors in the event log, Visual Studio:
"Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, stamp 4333e699, faulting module vdt80p.dll, version 8.0.50727.42, stamp 4333eba8, debug? 0, fault address 0x00059db8"
And, .NET Runtime:
".NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2B45A2) (0)"
Both of which aren't much use. I had a search around Usenet and on the Web, but not much fruit. I tried repairing VS and .NET, but no joy.
I have just tried clearing out some temporary directories, which appears to have done the trick. I cleared out:
- %SYSTEMROOT%\Temp
- %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Microsoft\Website\Cache
- %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectAssemblies
And another directory which was named with the name of my company. This contained a load of directories with the name of my projects. I guess that the company name came from the project properties.
Anyway, this and a reboot seemed to have solved the problem, whether it is coincidence or not, I don't know.