Debug Techniques: Visual Studio 2008 Process fatal crash after debug of WPF application

I have a relatively large C#/WPF Visual Studio 2008 solution that I am trying to test and synchronize across 2 developer's computers. On my computer, I am able to build and debug (run) the project successfully without errors.

On the second computer, I am able to build the solution without any errors. When I attempt to run the solution, Visual Studio starts the process but about 3 seconds later the entire development platform exits. Before it exits I briefly see one of our .xaml files opened by visual studio with a yellow 'unhandled exception' box pop-up on a certain line number. I'm currently contacting the part of开发者_运维问答 my company who is responsible for implementing the functionality of that xaml file.

This raised a bigger issue in my mind: How can you troubleshoot an issue when Visual Studio is immediately exiting after attempting to run a program?

The Visual Studio 2008 crashes when starting to debug post may also be helpful. I'm trying those solutions now.

We found that executing the three following commands helped to fix our problem:

devenv.exe /ResetSettings
devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs 
devenv.exe /Setup

This was suggested in another stackoverflow post here helped us to determine that it was a plugin, AccuRev's Visual Studio plugin, that was causing the issue.

The issue also appears to be a "known issue" with a hotfix from Microsoft, documented here.

VS2008 SP1: In Visual Studio 2008 SP1, having windows in non-default locations, for example after docking and undocking windows, when switching between debugging and designing or switching to/from full screen, can result in a crash of the Visual Studio IDE.

Thanks for your help!

Run devenv/debugexe to debug your exe. When an unhandled exception occurs, in the debug menu, select "save as dump", then visit http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio to open a bug report and attach the dump file after creating the report.