Visual Studio 2010 Crashing on Solution Load

Question

I've seen a lot of similar questions, but I don't think I'm duplicating. Here's my situation. I have three solutions that I'm working with. A works fine, but when I try to load B or C, VS 2010 crashes shortly after loading the solution, particularly after I try to open a file form my solution explorer.

What I've tried:

1. Disabling all add-ins and macros vis tools -> options -> add-in/Macros Security then unchecking the two relevant check boxes

2. Deleting my .suo file.

3. Rebooting my machine

4. Running VS 2010 as Administrator

Here's the error from my event viewer

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 10.0.30319.1, time stamp: 0x4ba1fab3 Faulting module name: cslangsvc.dll, version: 10.0.30319.1, time stamp: 0x4ba20c61 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0024b651 Faulting process id: 0x1408 Faulting application start time: 0x01cbddd78972584a Faulting application path: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe Faulting module path: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC#\VCSPackages\cslangsvc.dll Report Id: cd32c352-49ca-11e0-b3d8-0026b9c2aa7e

EDIT

This is a solution with two projects -> a win forms project, and a console project. Both in C#

RESOLUTION

It turns out there was some silly (stupid?) code in my solution that was making VS go crazy. The code should never really have been in there; it was just something I wrote playing around for no good reason.

On a related note, if you ever want to be evil to someone you don't like, insert the following code into their solution somewhere, and sit back and watch the fun:

namespace System {
    public partial class Boolean { }
}

I put this code into the first solution, and watched it crash after building. I ass-umed the crash was unlreated to the code I had just written and proceeded to put it into my second solution to see if it was possible to extend Boolean without extension methods, then got angry that VS was still crashing. That code could be capable of crashing VS never crossed my mind.

Answer 1

Try disabling all extensions via tools -> extension manager. I've had extensions crash visual studio only in certain projects.

Alternatively try running VS in safemode: devenv.exe /SafeMode

Answer 2

I tried the following in the order i performed:

1. devenv.exe /resetsettings , devenv.exe /resetskippkgs (did not work)

2. devenv.exe /safemode (told me that product version cannot open .ccproj types. But no counter solution worked)

3. renamed the .user, .suo files (did not work)

4. Installed any and every service pack for VS2010 even if they were remotely related to C# development.

5. "Reinstalled" VS2010 using the 'repair/reinstall' option(did not work)

6. Uninstalled VS2010 and then installed (this was my solution even though many of them tried this and failed. Might be because this was my last resort.)