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After installing DF, Visual Studio always opens minimized / also sometimes crashes

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Topic: After installing DF, Visual Studio always opens minimized / also sometimes crashes
Posted By: Alan Cobb
Subject: After installing DF, Visual Studio always opens minimized / also sometimes crashes
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2009 at 8:21am

Hi,

I installed DevForce on two XP (SP3) computers and get the
following odd behavior on both with VS2008 (SP1):

After the installation, when I double-click on a *.SLN file
in Windows Explorer, Visual Studio opens Ok, but it _always_
starts _minimized_.  I have to look over at the task bar to
see if it opened and click on the VS icon to restore the
VS IDE's window to a normal state.

With DF installed, openning _all_ *.SLN files (not just ones
for DF projects) exhibit this issue.  When I uninstall DF,
Visual Studio opens normally again (un-minimized).

Any idea what this might be?

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The above issue is just annoying, but a more serious problem I've
seen on some larger DF solutions is that when I right-click on
the properties of a project in the solution, VS immediately
crashes/exits.

Has that issue been reported before?

Thanks,
Alan Cobb


Replies:
Posted By: davidklitzke
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2009 at 10:12am
We have made some fixes in 5.2.3 with respect to Visual Studio crashes.  The Release Notes list this defect repair:
 
• DevForce now guards against Visual Studio crashes when the Object Mapper opens. [B1148]
 

Posted By: Alan Cobb
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2009 at 10:18am
Have you heard of or seen the "VS starts minimized" behavior before?
 
Thanks,
Alan Cobb

Posted By: JoshO
Date Posted: 05-Nov-2009 at 4:29pm
I have been trying to reproduce the behavior you are experiencing without any success. The only thing that comes to mind is some incompatability with another add-on. What other tools do you have installed ?  Have you tried DevForce as the only add-on ?  We use tools such as ReSharper with DevForce in VS but we can't possibly test all of the 3rd party tools available out there.

Posted By: Alan Cobb
Date Posted: 05-Nov-2009 at 4:45pm
Ok, thanks.  Yes, it looks like this is a my-machines-only kind of problem.

I played around a bit today with WinDbg attempting to figure out why VS crashes / exits
as previously described.  I'll let you know when I figure something out.
 
Thanks,
Alan Cobb 

Posted By: Alan Cobb
Date Posted: 28-Nov-2009 at 2:59pm

Hi Josh0,

>The only thing that comes to mind is some incompatability with another add-on.

Actually, DevForce is the only Add-In I have installed.

The behavior I described previously of VS2008 openning minimized
when I click on a *.SLN from Explorer, is for XP.

I recently tried the same DF version (EnterpriseUniv-Express, v5.2.3.1)
on Vista-32 and Win7-64.  On those I get slightly different,
but still problematic behavior.  When I click on a *.SLN from Windows
Explorer, instead of VS2008 openning minimized, it opens unminimized
(good), but behind/underneath Explorer (irritating).

Alan Cobb


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