Fix for Visual Studio 2008 crash with XAML files

Monday, May 11, 2009

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Does your Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crash when you open some XAML files? It started to happen to me, for some unknown reason.

What I saw was Visual Studio completely disappearing after opening a XAML file, with the devenv.exe process being unloaded. The only traces of this kind of crash were error events in the Windows Event Viewer: ".NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)".

Luckily, a fix for this issue has been published by Microsoft. It looks like everything is back in order now.

Finally, back to productivity thanks to this hotfix and the tip I published some time ago!

3 Comments

Worked great! Thanks!

Kiley - Friday, July 17, 2009 4:01:20 PM

This is great, I thought I messed up my code...

_ivan - Monday, September 14, 2009 7:53:01 PM

Anyone have a new link for the fix? Was there a fix for Windows 7?

This is not the PowerCommands compatibility issue because that fix is in place. I was look for a hot fix msi.

Wray Smallwood - Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:18:12 PM

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