Visual Studio Professional 2013 Crashes When Opening Solutions/Files

Question

I\'ve been trying to open some of the webpage/database solutions I made while working for my previous employer, to get a refresher on what they were, but for some reason Vis

Answer 1

Delete the caches in the corresponding paths:

C:\Users\davidmurali\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ComponentModelCache C:\Users\davidmurali\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache C:\Users\davidmurali\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache

Answer 2

I had the same, but I managed to go to Help -> register and click "Sign out" before it crashed. After that it stopped crashing. I believe it was related to the fact that I changed my password and the license could not have been obtained or something like that...

Answer 3

Try invoking Visual Studio from the command line.

devenv.exe /log

Then try to open your solution and then if it crashes, go look at the

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\ActivityLog.xml 

file. it should have details on the crash. Also, the event logs may capture some high level events as well.

Answer 4

.NET Reflector Extension was causing this issue for me - uninstalled and works a dream.