January 2010 Entries

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 WPF Designer Crash

I’m at it again. Yesterday when working on a simplistic WPF form for a user profile configuration scenario, Visual Studio did it again with a bang, crashing in all it’s glory when switching to designer view. What solved the problem? Well… Erasing the solution .suo file so that the IDE doesn’t crash on startup if, by any chance, a xaml document is open in design view, and installing the following hotfix made available by Microsoft:   KB963035 - VS2008 SP1 sometimes hangs irretrievably after WPF Designer   This hotfix relates to the Visual Studio IDE...