What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you
It is surely frustrating when VS or VWD crashes on you or hangs with "Not Responsing" message. If you do not have reliable repro steps, the best piece of information you can provide to us is a debug dump. He is how you can obtain it. If you are using Visual Studio 1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Start another instance of VS. 3. In the second instance click Tools | Attach to Process.. . 4. In the list of processes locate devenv.exe. 5. Click Select... and explicitly choose 'Native' and 'Managed' code. 6. Click OK and OK to close Select dialog and Attach to Process dialog. 7. Go back to the first instance of VS and repro the crash. 8. Upon the crash control should go to the second instance of VS. 9. In the second instance
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