Visual Studio 2010 crashes on opening! I'm starting to hate everything!

Howdy, I noticed that Visual Studio crashed when I tried to open a .SQL file. Perhaps this was due to me installing SQL SERVER 2008 last week. Anyway to overcome the issue I repaired Visual Studio using the install disc. One hour later and a couple of reboots the issue remained. However now the thing crashes as soon as I select a project!

Here's what the event viewer says:

EventType clr20r3, P1 devenv.exe, P2 10.0.40219.1, P3 4d5f2a73, P4 microsoft.visualstudio.editor.implementation, P5 10.0.0.0, P6 4d5f2b24, P7 d2, P8 9a, P9 system.nullreferenceexception, 开发者_StackOverflow中文版P10 NIL.

I'm starting to lose the will to live.

With Regards to Andrei Drynov's answer / comment **

Okay, the service pack is on there, the contents of the SQL file are irrelevant as the files opened with ease previously and it happens on that file type not a specific file also the crashing happens regardless of the project/solution I select? I do agree that I am being dramatic!

After starting in safe mode **

I got the following error

"An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame. This information is also logged by running the application with the /log parameter on the command line, which stores results in "C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXXX\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ActivityLog.xml".

Exception details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Package 'Attrice.TeamFoundation.Sidekicks.VisualStudio.MainPackage, Attrice.TeamFoundation.Sidekicks.Package.10, Version=3.0.3.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=14bece0700b6dc89' failed to load. at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.GetPackage() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()

I then got the following

Microsoft Visual Studio

'C:\Dev\XXXXXX.Deploy.wdproj' cannot be opened because its project type (.wdproj) is not supported by this version of the application.

To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project.

So I'll reinstall the Visual Studio® 2010 Web Deployment Projects to see if that works? How odd.

This worked a treat!

Thank God!

Visual Studio 2010 hangs up when opening a .sql file

You are being quite dramatic )))

Please provide more information, e.g. post the SQL file contents, tell more about the project type, etc.

BTW, did you install service pack 1?

I had a VS2010 solution with two Database projects that, on and off, crashed VS2010 on opening.

After a few attempts I noticed that the .SLN file had the two projects correctly referenced BUT the TAG SccNumberOfProjects referenced 3 instead of 2.

Global\GlobalSection\SccNumberOfProjects = 3

I "text-edited" for 2 and it worked, at least for now.

As the crash was happening on and off with no apparent reason, I cannot guarantee that this was in fact THE solution; use at your own risk and of course, backup files first. ;)