Visual Basic internal compiler error

[Dusan Jan]

I get the following message when compiling or by background compile:

Visual Basic .NET compiler is unable to recover from the following
error: System Error &Hc0000005& (Visual Basic internal compiler error)
Save your work and restart Visual Studio .NET.

I have browsed for this issue and there are several reports on this.
One claim that there is a kb article on this that asks to call MS for
a patch. But no link to that article works.

Does anyone have any info on the status of this compiler bug?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* (e-mail address removed) (Dusan Jan) scripsit:

I get the following message when compiling or by background compile:

Visual Basic .NET compiler is unable to recover from the following
error: System Error &Hc0000005& (Visual Basic internal compiler error)
Save your work and restart Visual Studio .NET.

I have browsed for this issue and there are several reports on this.
One claim that there is a kb article on this that asks to call MS for
a patch. But no link to that article works.

Does anyone have any info on the status of this compiler bug?

What exactly are you doing that is causing this error?

 

[Dusan Jan]

I'm not doing anything special other that having a large solution. The
error happens most often while opening a solution, but it has also
happened otherwise. There is no problem with the code however, because
the code will compile without making any changes. Just saving and
restarting studio works. What bothers me is that this keeps repeating.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I'm not doing anything special other that having a large solution. The
error happens most often while opening a solution, but it has also
happened otherwise. There is no problem with the code however, because
the code will compile without making any changes. Just saving and
restarting studio works. What bothers me is that this keeps repeating.

That's really annoying and I do not know a specific reason for this
behavior. I remember that I once could repro this bug by typing a
special block of code, but that doesn't seem to be the reason why you
get the error message.