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Josh Campbell
Josh Campbell

Reputation: 458

Opening web.config file causes Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to hang and crash

Situation: I installed Visual Studio 2012 on top of my previous Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. I uninstalled VS2012 shortly thereafter along with all SQL 2012 database junk and yadda yadda. Everything in VS 2010 seems to be good, but when I try to open my web.config file VS hangs indefinitely.

Tried:

(1) Downloading and replacing the dsref80.dll that gets overridden by VS2012

(2) Uninstalled all VS extensions, including NuGet

(3) Created new website and web.config file. Problem persists

Question: Does anyone have any other ideas about what could cause the web.config file to cause VS2010 to hang and crash after clicking on it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1547

Answers (1)

Josh Campbell
Josh Campbell

Reputation: 458

I figured it out. For some reason the web.config file was set to open with source code editor by default and not the HTML editor. For anyone else who runs into this issue, the answer is simple.

Right-click the web.config file ---> Open with ----> Highlight HTML Editor ---> Set as Default.



Update (Dec, 2013): Although I was able to access the web.config file using the method mentioned above, I later realized that it was more of a Band-Aid than a solution. Using the html editor causes a lot of validation warnings and renders intelliSense useless. The correct solution is to run the repair option from the Visual Studio 2010 install DVD, that fixes everything.

Upvotes: 2

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