Expression Blend 3 constantly crashing

07-29-2009 7:04 AM |

I'm running the Expression suite downloaded from MSDN and am finding that Blend 3 (3.0.1927.0) constantly crashes, unfortunately not in a reproducable way (not that I've found one yet). It's not as if I'm doing anything demanding, just building some usercontrols with text boxes and labels etc. It is usually crashing every 30 mins or so.

Unfortunately there isn't an auto save function or a recover tool when reopening Blend. I'm having to now save every five minutes which isn't ideal. Blend 3 Preview didn't crash as much as this.

Running on XP SP3, 32 bit.

Anyone alse experiencing this ?

James.

Re: Expression Blend 3 constantly crashing

07-29-2009 1:56 PM |

Thank you for reporting this issue. Could you launch Blend.exe from a command prompt with the /ExceptionLog argument and gather the information you get in Notepad when Blend crashes?

blend.exe /ExceptionLog

If you find that this crash is sporadic, you can modify your shortcut settings so you always run Blend with this flag turned on, and hence don't have to spend too much time chasing down the crash.

You can email this to me directly at unnir at microsoft dot com. If there was a project repro that demonstrated this issue, even better!

Re: Expression Blend 3 constantly crashing

07-30-2009 9:08 AM |

Of course as soon as I'm running it with /ExceptionLog it's more stable But it has crashed a couple of times - where exactly is the stack trace written out to ?

If I can cut the project down I will do.