Visual Studio 2005 crashes on start-up

Question

In my work environment, Visual Studio currently crashes every time I start our main project unless I delete the .suo (solution options) and .ncb (C++ Intellisense symbols) files.

Obviously, I've found a workaround. Is there a more permanent solution than this?

Answer 1

Have you installed Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1?

Answer 2

Try monitoring the Visual Studio process using a tool like Process Monitor and get more info. It could be because of some weird file access issues.

Answer 3

The accepted answer wasn't quite correct, but it pointed in the right direction.

There is a hotfix for VS2k5 SP1 described in KB article 947315 that addresses this issue.