VS.2003 IDE Crash

[harry]

Hi,

After installing VS.2003, I just upgraded a VS.NET 2002 project to VS.NET
2003.

I upgraded because VS.NET 2003 is slow and buggy.

However, I find VS.NET 2003 is worse in terms of bugs.

For approx 20 hours everything was fine. Now suddenly I have IDE+Debugger
(VB.NET) problems. Compilation was fine 20 hours ago, yet now it's not. I
haven't installed any more software since installing VS.2003, and in fact I
was just making small code changes when the problems appeared.

First issue I find is
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;831489

Next issue and one I am still currently unable to resolve is, well I'm not
sure what the cause is. The symptoms are:
1) Create a new #Region - IDE crashes
2) Move cursor to some Procedures and the "Method Name" combo doesn't
change. If you click the method name combo, a heap of methods do not show
up. These happen to be in a particular region. I removed the #Region/#End
Region code, however the missing methods still do not appear in the method
name combo.

Well in fact the IDE seems to be completely screwed up now. I attempt to add
a new procedure and the IDE crashes. I just tried switching from Debug to
Release and the IDE crashed.

I've completely uninstalled everything (VS.NET 2003, FrameWork, Office XP
PIA's), rebooted, then reinstalled from scratch. Problem still exists.

All that is left is to revert back to VS.2002 even thouigh it has issues at
least I can work around them so far. How can a newer version be more
unreliable than the older version. Whats more, there are other issues with
VS.2003. Why can't we have timely updates, rather than waiting years for a
large service pack.

These issues don't appear on all projects. I just converted a very basic
project and all is fine. So it must be something in the code, even though it
was fine under VS.2002. But where in the code? Besides, why does code crash
IDE and compiler? Shouldn't it simply show debug or compile error?

Anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks
Harry

 

[Tom]

I just went through 3 hours with a dude from microsoft on this one and
believe it or not...the way that we got rid of the errors that were
arrising was to close down the individual form/code windows within the
IDE. Closing them all down cleared up all the errors and I was able
to rebuild and the IDE works fine again. Hope this might help.

 

[harry]

Thanks for info.

I already gave up and reverted back to VS.2002, however if I install VS.2003
again in the future (which I would like to do when I have time) if the
problem appears again I'll try your solution.