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7 year old Visual Studio Bug... System Error &Hc0000005&

I am using VS 2008 Pro and everything was fine until all of a sudden I got the error message... "Visual Basic .NET compiler is unable to recover from the following error: System Error &Hc0000005& (Visual Basic internal compiler error) Save your work and restart Visual Studio .NET".

Now I can't do anything without the VS crashing. I searched Google and see this issue has been around for 7+ years since VS 2003.

Has anyone run into this problem with VS 2008 Professional and did you find a fix?

Todd Gerbert

Have you tried repairing/re-installing Visual Studio?
Or starting devenv.exe with the /safemode parameter (may be a misbehaving add-in)?

handyjay

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Repairing VS this morning was my plan but I think I MAY have found the issue. I was in the middle of creating a stringbuilder object when the issue happened and I had copied some code from SQL into VS so I could build the query string using a stringbuilder. I think VS thought the code was an attribute and since it was obviously invalid it crashed. The code I was in the middle or rewritting from SQL to VB.NET is below. As I was editing this line " sb.Appendf(" (<JobNumber, int,>" , it crashed just as I typed sb.appenndf...

So if this is the reason it is a bug from Microsoft that should not happen.

I commented out the code and now it works but when I try to reproduce the issue...Of course I can not reproduce the error now!

Im glad I'm back up and running again but I hate it when I can not reproduce errors. I would be happier if I can figure out why it happened!

Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        sb.Append("INSERT INTO [Jason_DB].[dbo].[DataTrackerSystemTimer] ")
        sb.Append("  ([JobNumber] ")
        sb.Append("    ,[user]) ")
        sb.Append("  VALUES ")
              sb.Appendf("   (<JobNumber, int,>
                ,<user, varchar(50),>)

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Todd Gerbert

Actually, I would start with the disk check - otherwise the repair/reinstallation may well put a file back in a bad block.

7 year old Visual Studio Bug... System Error &amp;Hc0000005&amp;

7 year old Visual Studio Bug... System Error &Hc0000005&