Why does Visual Studio 2008™ crash? [closed]

Question

I'm aware of this thread, in which the question restricts to source control issues.

In my case, it's more general. From time to time, Visual Studio will just crash randomly, even without user input.

I usually close all my files and clean my project to avoid further crashes, and I eventually crash again, without really knowing why.

Do you have some tip and tricks to avoid random crashes?

Edit : I've installed SP1, I'm running Vista on a Q6600 with 4gb RAM

Answer 1

Having undocked windows can cause a crash when you start or stop debugging. There's an error report here.
Add ons can also cause crashes, especially ReSharper in my experience. You could try disabling any add ons that you can live without.

Answer 2

If it's being caused by an add-on, and you happen to be running a 64-bit operating system, then there's hope yet! Microsoft released a hotfix that corrects the VS2008 crashing that ReSharper and other add-ons tend to cause. It can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947841.