Visual Studio 2010 Professional crashes after opening Forms

Question

Hi i have very weird problem. My Visual Studio 2010 crashes when i try to open user controls wrote with Devexpress 12.1.8.

I tried to uninstall whole program, deleted folders, cleaned registry but crashes still happens.

When i try to open user control a windows appears "Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close." I checked in event manager and i get this error:

Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.AggregateException
Stack:
   at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskExceptionHolder.Finalize()

One more weird thing about this situation is that after windows popup i can see that the control has opened in background.

What can i do to stop this error?

EDIT: I checked and it seems that i can open controls writed with devexpress 13.1.6. Maybye it is a problem with devexpress? Is there a way to totally uninstall devexpress?

Answer 1

It sounds like you might have a problem related to a third party package or add-in, possibly not DevExpress related. Here are some things to try:

• Running Visual Studio as an administrator.

• You can try running devenv /Resetsettings (see here) in a Command Prompt which should fix any corrupted settings

• Try running devenv /ResetSkipPkgs (see here) which will avoid loading any problem packages.

• Try running devenv /Safemode (see here). If it works in safe mode then the problem is most likely a third party add-ins or package.

• You can also try Devenv.exe /log ". This will generate a file called ActivityLog.xml which might give you further clues.

• If none of those help then try repairing Visual Studio from the Control Panel.