Today I found a great feature, hidden in the PowerCommands add-in for Visual Studio: the self-titled quick close button.
Let me elaborate. When I tried to run project A, a modest WCF service project all went well. When I ran project B, also a WCF project, the Visual Studio IDE immediately vanished. Nothing worked: restarting VisualStudio, rebooting, clearing cache etc.
The symptoms:
- Visual Studio just closes… Immediately!
- No error messages
- Just a record in the Event Viewer mentioning:
”.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)”
Now this seems to be an active bug of which there’s also mentioning on Microsoft Connect (ID 373393). Worthy to note that the bug isn’t selective to just WPF/XAML solutions, but appears to be any random SP1 solution. Although unfortunate it is easy to resolve - PowerCommands is not compliant with SP1 for Visual Studio. So, uninstalling PowerCommands will fix this problem until an update is provided.
Now it must be said that PowerCommands is a great addin. It adds nifty, but modestly easy functionality to your development environment. It’s one of those tool I already miss when it’s gone, such as now.
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