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BillRob
BillRob

Reputation: 4858

VS Studio Crashes hard with "encountered a user-defined breakpoint" error on any config file

I have a odd problem here I can't figure out.

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This happens each time I open the web.config file in my project. Studio crashes immediately after clicking close. Clicking debug just opens and empty Studio with the debugger attached to nothing.

I even resorted to open studio 2008 naked, without and project or solution, and then manually browsed to the web.config. It still crashes.

Other info:

All *.config files with crash as soon as the file opens. This occurs in both VS 2005 and 2008. Any file named .config, whether a .cs file renamed, or an empty text file called bob.config.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1261

Answers (1)

eduncan911
eduncan911

Reputation: 17604

Try looking at your packages installed for Visual Studio. They are registered in the registry under:

Visual Studio 2008
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0Exp\Packages 

Visual Studio 2005
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0Exp

If you have a lot, I say kill them all. And then reinstall your specific addons (such as CodeSmith or VisualSVN).

For reference, this is my fresh new install of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Windows 7 RTM. Only 1 plugin, and it's for SQL Server's SSIS:

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Upvotes: 1

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