Solved: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Crash
I have a fresh install of Vista Business x64 with a clean install of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I updated my Telerik R.A.D. Controls Winforms from an older 2007 version to 2008 Q2 SP1. After which (and I do not fault Telerik for this as it is a VS2008 issue not a Telerik issue) my Visual Studio 2008 SP1 started crashing. My event log had errors such as this:
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (000007FEF957203F)
The remote debugger is unable to communicate with Visual Studio, and must abort the remote debugging session. Please restart debugging.
Faulting application devenv.exe, version 9.0.30729.1, time stamp 0x488f2b50, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x330001ca, process id 0x136c, application start time 0x01c92d91f586f1eb.
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (6EC00F92)
I solved the problem by doing the following:
Close Visual Studio if it is open (in fact it is a good idea to stop all programs that are running).
Delete all files in: (skip locked files)
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Users\<UserDir>\Local Settings\Temp
if you are still on Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Temp
and most importantly
C:\Users\<UserDir>\Local Settings\Microsoft\VisualStudio
if you are still on Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Microsoft\VisualStudio
Restart Visual Studio 2008 and you should be good to go!