code generator received malformed input

Hello

I do have a sudden problem with my Visual Studio (.NET Framework 1.1, Visual Studio 2003 version). All was fine and well until 2 days ago when unexpectedly I started to receive the following error

"Visual Basic .NET compiler is unable to recover from the following error
Internal compiler error: code generator received malformed input. Save your work and restart Visual Studio .NET.

All my Web projects are in this state: whenever I try to simply open one file in the Visual Studio I will get the error. Whenever I try to compile the project – the compile will simply “sit” there forever and do nothing. When I try to close the project (after canceling the build) I will again get the error. All I can think of being different from the perfect state I have been in before is that the same day I installed the SQL Server Client Tools on the same machine. The install was OK, I also applied the SP3 – but the VB compiler seems to have been damaged.

I uninstalled and re-installed the VB, the whole Visual Studio, the Framework itself – nothing works.

Did anyone encounter the same issue? Does anyone have any idea

I must mention that the only KB info which talks about this error doesn’t apply in my case (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;316511) as I am not using a DataGrid (or a ListManager property for that matter)

Please, HELP! I don't want to reinstall the whole machine, I just had it clean and new last Friday :-)

Thank you

Alicia Marinach
Software Architect/Develope
IA Sciences Inc
www.iasciences.co