Desperate for Help..IDE Stack Overflow on attempt to Open Solution of my Main Project..

[Guest]

Arrrrrggghhhhhhh! I am dead in the water. My big project with 100's of files refuses to open

I am sure that it is something to do with open designers in the subclasses as it starts to load projects (there are 7) within the solution and bombs on the 6th one. How do you reset any open forms in designers from outside Visual studio?? If I can do this then hopefully I can get back into code and try and figure out what is causing this..

I was changing usercontrols sub-class to a differnt base class and moved the base class to another project within the same solution

The IDE crashed and now refuses to load the solution.., I have rebooted and continually get this Error

$exception {"Exception of type System.StackOverflowException was thrown."} System.StackOverflowException
everthing shows null or no value..

The error occurs in

System.Activator.CreateInstanc

00000000 push ebp
00000001 mov ebp,esp
00000003 sub esp,10h
00000006 push edi
00000007 push esi
00000008 push ebx
00000009 mov dword ptr [ebp-8],0
00000010 mov esi,edx
00000012 test ecx,ecx
00000014 je 00000081
00000016 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx]
00000018 call dword ptr [eax+00000134h]
0000001e mov edx,eax
00000020 mov ecx,79B8F37Ch
00000025 call dword ptr ds:[79C4413Ch]
0000002b mov edx,esi
0000002d and edx,0FFh
00000033 sete dl
00000036 movzx edx,dl
00000039 mov ecx,eax
0000003b cmp dword ptr [ecx],ecx
0000003d call dword ptr ds:[79B8F508h]
00000043 jmp 0000007A
00000045 mov ecx,79B87B8Ch
0000004a call dword ptr ds:[79C44108h]
00000050 mov esi,eax
00000052 mov eax,dword ptr ds:[79C3BC48h]
00000058 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax]
0000005a call dword ptr ds:[79B84968h]
00000060 mov edx,eax
00000062 mov eax,dword ptr ds:[79C3BCE4h]
00000068 push dword ptr [eax]
0000006a mov ecx,esi
0000006c call dword ptr ds:[79B87C00h]
00000072 mov ecx,esi
00000074 call dword ptr ds:[79C44158h]
0000007a pop ebx
0000007b pop esi
0000007c pop edi
0000007d mov esp,ebp
0000007f pop ebp
00000080 ret
00000081 mov ecx,79B96AECh
00000086 call dword ptr ds:[79C44108h]
0000008c mov esi,eax
0000008e mov eax,dword ptr ds:[79C3BCE4h]
00000094 mov edx,dword ptr [eax]
00000096 mov ecx,esi
00000098 call dword ptr ds:[79B96B58h]
0000009e mov ecx,esi
000000a0 call dword ptr ds:[79C44158h]
000000a6 int 3

 

[Guest]

What a PITA this is..

I am sure that somewhere there is a registry key that holds the currently open items in a solution but darned if I could find it

I researched the net and seems like the only way around this that I could find is to create a new soloution and add the existing projects to it. I did this , compiled it and the application ran just fine..

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..

So I started opening forms in the designer till I found one that sure enough crashed visual studio when it tried to load. No way to recover.

Now Because the form never opened. I could reopen the project. I recompiled it and run this form, tested it and everthing works perfectly. So obviously there is something in the inherieted control that the designer doesn't like

I deleted the .resx file and the project loads... I still have to track down why the designer blows up visual studio even though the code runs fine...

I had this happen to me about 6 months ago but is was on a small test project and I just copied the code file. over.

What a waste of my time!!

 

[Nico Vrouwe]

Hi Mike,

Try deleting the *.suo file next time instead of creating a new
solution. The solution should open with a blank workspace when you load
it.

Hope this helps,

Nico Vrouwe

What a PITA this is...

I am sure that somewhere there is a registry key that holds the

currently open items in a solution but darned if I could find it.

I researched the net and seems like the only way around this that I

could find is to create a new soloution and add the existing projects to
it. I did this , compiled it and the application ran just fine..

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

So I started opening forms in the designer till I found one that sure

enough crashed visual studio when it tried to load. No way to recover.

Now Because the form never opened. I could reopen the project. I

recompiled it and run this form, tested it and everthing works
perfectly. So obviously there is something in the inherieted control
that the designer doesn't like.

I deleted the .resx file and the project loads... I still have to

track down why the designer blows up visual studio even though the code
runs fine....

I had this happen to me about 6 months ago but is was on a small test

project and I just copied the code file. over..

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that tip..I did that on the existing solution and once I did that I can open the original solution. I will file that tip away for sure as it would have saved me a few hours of searching for a way to open up the project...