Visual Studio has stopped working - on Win 7

Question

I have Win 7 Enterprise. If i open any .cs file on VS 2008/2010 it gives a message " Visual Studio has stopped working" on a dialog box. There are two buttons "Debug" and "close program". Debug button starts devenv in debug mode with assembly code as i do not have the pdb file for the same.

There is another machine with same configuration where the VS 2008/2010 Ultimate works fine. Even reinstalling Win 7 did not solve the problem. Any idea why it is happening?

Answer 1

Try with some standard VS troubleshooting steps:

• Clean the solution
• Delete / rename all files in your solution created by VS, i.e. all .ncb, .suo, .user files
• Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled: devenv.exe /SafeMode
• Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings
• Delete HKCU:\Software\Micosoft\VisualStudio\9.0 and then restart Visual Studio
• Repair the Visual Studio installation through Add/Remove Programs

Answer 2

Recently I had the same problem, there is not much help on the Internet. So I thought this could be an easy fix. I re-install Visual Studio Several times but no luck. Finally, I uninstall .NET Framework along with Visual Studio, re-boot and re-install.

It worked fine !!

I thought it might help someone.

Answer 3

VS 2012 Stopped Working

• I couldn't open a project or create a new one without it crashing

• I was getting this error...

  System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException was unhandled
    Message=No exports were found that match the constraint: 
      ContractName    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.Intellisense.IGlyphService
      RequiredTypeIdentity    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.Intellisense.IGlyphService
    InnerException:
  

However, as mentioned above this worked for me:

• Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled:

  devenv.exe /SafeMode
  

• Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings