Visual Studio 2008 keeps crashing

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I'm running Visual Studio Team System Development Edition 2008 on Vista Business 64bit along with Resharper 4.5, Telerik Reporting 2009/Q2 and GhostDoc 2.5.9166.0 and it keeps crashing randomly. It typically happens when I start entering text into a .cs or text file. The event log gets an application error entry:

Faulting application devenv.exe, version 9.0.30729.1, time stamp 0x488f2b50, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e03824, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x000ab0bf, process id 0xb0, application start time 0x01ca255374e4ec56.

Any thoughts?

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asked on Super User Aug 25, 2009 by (unknown user) • edited Sep 25, 2013 by wonea

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Try removing the extensisons (ReSharper, Telerik & GhostDoc) one by one and see if the problem goes away - it might be in one of those or due to an interaction between them. If so reinstall and see if the problem goes away.

If that doesn't work repair/reinstall Visual Studo itself.

answered on Super User Aug 25, 2009 by ChrisF • edited Sep 7, 2009 by ChrisF
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I'd guess it has to do with the extensions you have installed. To disable them temporarily, start VS and click on Tools -> Add-in manager. Deselect all "Start" entries and restart Visual Studio.

answered on Super User Aug 25, 2009 by Adrian Grigore
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The exception code 0xC0000374 is STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION. This exception's cause may be related to what you were doing at the time of the crash, but it also may be related to something else you did earlier in the same Visual Studio session. The suggestions about disabling add-ons and upgrading to SP1 are good. I suspect that overclocking or faulty RAM could also cause this, but would probably also cause random bug checks (BSODs).

You said that once you upgraded to Windows 7, the problem went away. Windows 7 has a new fault tolerant heap (FTH). If you saw the crash once with Windows 7 and never again, that might be the FTH mitigating whatever bug caused the heap corruption.

answered on Super User Sep 7, 2009 by bk1e
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Ensure you are running the latest version of ReSharper. There was a known issue with one of the beta release that would cause a random crash when trying to edit anything related to HTML or CSS or when using the < or > keys. I would suggest disabling ReSharper first.

answered on Super User Aug 25, 2009 by BinaryMisfit
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Make sure that you have SP1 for VS2008 installed. and Latest version of ReSharper that supports SP1.

answered on Super User Aug 25, 2009 by Tony

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