VS 2008 crashes when designing an Entity Data Model

[ethan]

Hello everybody.

I'm trying to add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model to a project. Once Visual
Studio gets tries to open the file(s) in the designer, it crashes. Every
time. I'm running VS 2008 SP1 Team Developer (fully patched) on Windows XP
SP3 (fully patched). I also tried on a colleague's XP SP2 machine. I've
been through a repair, an un-install and a re-install. I have disabled and
even un-installed all VS addons. I've reset the devenv settings. I've
created new test projects of different types using different languages.

These pop up in the Event Log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Microsoft Visual Studio
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5000
Date: 3/2/2009
Time: 3:51:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: {computerName}
Description:

EventType clr20r3, P1 devenv.exe, P2 9.0.30729.1, P3 488f2b50, P4
presentationcore, P5 3.0.0.0, P6 488f140b, P7 5015, P8 0, P9
system.typeinitialization, P10 NIL.

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any thoughts on what I may be overlooking?

 

[Miha Markic]

Sounds to me something with WPF.
Perhaps there is a problem with your graphics driver or WPF.
Try starting Windows in Safe Mode.

Miha