Visual Studio 2010 Crashes When Opening A XAML File

Question

My Visual Studio 2010 installation has begun to refuse to open XAML files. As soon I try to open a XAML file, VS crashes with the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has stopped working" error message.

The error details are as follow:

Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: devenv.exe Application Version: 10.0.40219.1 Application Timestamp: 4d5f2a73 Fault Module Name: agcore.dll Fault Module Version: 4.0.60531.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 4de47967 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 000fe4b4 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 2057 Additional Information 1: 1c2e Additional Information 2: 1c2e894c07ffbfa788cce4871fe5d2a7 Additional Information 3: 4324 Additional Information 4: 4324091cc08bb1d80e5272e04862e058

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I have tried loads of different things to fix this, uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight and the developer tools, uninstalling the whole of Visual Studio and the Silverlight tools and even trying to stop the XAML designer from opening and simply opening just the XAML code. The whole re-install of Visual Studio seemed to fix the problem for a couple of hourse, but now it is straight back to crashing as soon as I open the XAML file. Is there anything else that I can try?

Thanks for any help,

Martyn.

Answer 1

You can try to open the XAML file the following way:

Right click on the XAML file, select the open with --> XML(Text) Editor -- set it to default, and click ok, the xaml file opens.

They say this happens because you don't have the right version of Silverlight developer run-time installed on your machine, but i never happened to find the right one for my machine what ever i do it kept crashing so i learnt to live with it now, the above workaround is good.