Really nasty bug with intellisense causing the VS.NET 2003 IDE to lock

[Andrew Baker]

Since installing SP1 and using VS.NET 2003 I have been having terrible
problems with the intellisense locking the IDE. It only seems to
happen with certain assemblies, but happens a lot.

For example if I type:

MessageBox.Show( this, "Test",

and then start using the Up and Down arrows to cycle through the
overrides the IDE locks/freezes up everytime. To unfreeze the IDE you
have to click on the VS.NET icon in the task bar and minimize then
maximise the screen and it comes back to life.

This even happens in solutions that have a single project and no
external references and is causing me a major headache!

Anyone else had similiar problems?

thanks
andrew

 

[Andrew Baker]

I got to the bottom of this and found this it was caused by a Code
Completion Addin which must have been throwing an exception on certain
keystokes. These exceptions where causing the IDE to lock, i guess
maybe a message box was appearing in the background or something.
Anyway have removed the addin and seems fine now...