Visual Studio closes all the time

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My Visual Studio shuts down about once a day. Not gracefully either, it just disappears off the screen, process list, everything. No thinking, no warning, just poof its gone.

This happens most frequently when coderush is trying to do something and lately (the last few days) it happens any time I try to open a view. As of a few hours ago it is also happening every time I open Globals.asx.cs in an MVC project.

So this is not exactly a programming question but this has been happening for a while and now with ASP.NET MVC out for real it is happening more and more often.

I get the following error in my event log:
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3082 – Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035FC0) (80131506)

I also have the following VS2008 plugins

  • Coderush/Refactor Pro! from DevExpress
  • ASP MVC
  • Testdriven.NET
  • T4 Toolbox
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • MbUnit/Gallio
  • Source Outliner
  • AnkhSVN (installed very recently)
  • Oracle Developer Tools

Has anyone had this problem or can even direct me to where to seek a solution?

Best Answer

Two possibilities here:

  1. Hotfix for Crash related to MVC and plugins
  2. Reinstall SP1 (I had a coworker who had crashes all the time reapply the SP and it fixed his issue; In his case he had installed VS Database Edition after installing SP1).