appelgren » visualstudio http://blog.appelgren.org What is this? Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:14:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visual Studio crash when choosing items in the Forms designer toolbox http://blog.appelgren.org/2009/02/25/visual-studio-crash-when-choosing-items-in-the-forms-designer-toolbox/ http://blog.appelgren.org/2009/02/25/visual-studio-crash-when-choosing-items-in-the-forms-designer-toolbox/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:40:07 +0000 appel http://blog.appelgren.org/?p=142 Ran into a strange issue with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 where it crashed, vanished with no errors, if I selected the Choose items menu item in the context menu of the Windows Forms designer Toolbox window. Attaching a debugger and reproducing the crash gave me the following error.

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.617 2009 (GMT+1): CLR:(

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.617 2009 (GMT+1): C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations\3.5.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.618 2009 (GMT+1): )

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.618 2009 (GMT+1): Rejecting native image because dependency C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Core\3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Core.dll is not native

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.619 2009 (GMT+1):

Wed Feb 25 15:47:55.619 2009 (GMT+1): ModLoad: 00000000`5aee0000 00000000`5aef2000   System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll

I have no idea what has caused this, but closing all Visual Studio instances and then starting it once with the /safemode switch and then closing it seems to have fixed the crash.

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