Visual Studio & Silverlight Development Tools

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

jxs0900 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:38:50 GMT

Just found a solution that fixed it for me.

devenv /safemode

When VS opens up add the controls to your toolbox.

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

jxs0900 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:16:16 GMT

Has anyone found a resolution for this? I'm using VS2008 VSTS sp1 on Vista Ultimate sp1

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

WadeFlextronics — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:06:07 GMT

You might try going to the VS Command Prompt and type: devenv /reset

This has helped me in the past when things were failing to get added to the toolbox.

(Please mark as Answered if this helps)

Re: Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

Turrican82 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:45 GMT

I had a lot of crahes while compiling the UI , normaly when page.xaml is closed it works fine, perhaps you can edit it whit expression blend and compile it with the xaml's closed

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

Andrew A — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:47:56 GMT

I just want to confirm that this happens to me too. I'm running Vista SP1, Visual Studio SP1 and Silverlight Tools 2.0 RC0 in Bootcamp.

The Visual Studio add-ins I have installed are ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates, Web Deployment Projects, Power Commands for Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008 CTP. Hope this helps.

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

aggiekevin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:51:20 GMT

Yes I know this is a strange problem, and I haven't found anyone who can reproduce it either. However it happens to me every time. I have VS Team Suite 2008 (without SP1 beta) installed on a Vista Ultimate SP1 VM in Virtual PC. The only other things I have installed in the VM are Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (SDK) and the Expression 2 suite.

I'll rebuild the VM and see if that clears something up. Thanks for your help.

Re: Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

jamlew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:43:49 GMT

Do you have VSTS Sp1 beta installed? Have you had any previous installations of Silverlight Tools or SDK? Have you customized your Silverlight toolbox at all yet?

I tried this on a clean VM with only VS RTM, and I couldn't get the crash to happen on that machine.

Visual Studio Crashes when Adding Controls to the Toolbox

aggiekevin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:43:45 GMT

I am trying to add some 3rd party controls to my Visual Studio Toolbox. However, any time I open the 'Choose Toolbox Item' window and attempt to select the 'Silverlight Components' tab, Visual Studio crashes. It happens every single time.

I am using a fresh VPC with Vista SP1, VSTS 2008, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (with SDK), and Blend 2.5.

Any suggestions?