Why does Visual Studio crash opening ASPX with MVC RC1

Question

• Upgraded from MVC Beta to MVC RC1.
• Re-pointed all references in the project to point to the new assemblies
• Rebooted
• Everything compiles (and

Answer 1

I finally (after a fews days of trying everything) got it resolved by uninstalling the Spark View Engine add-in, which crashed when opening .aspx and .js files!

Answer 2

This occurred for me after setting the reference to System.Web.Mvc to Copy Local = True. This placed the System.Web.Mvc.dll file in my bin folder.

The next time I opened any aspx pages Visual Studio crashed. Changing the dll in the bin to System.Web.Mvc.dll.bak fixed the problem.

Answer 3

I've had problems like that before. It was the webform editor. If you right-click the aspx file and choose "open with..." and select Html-editor the ide will most likely not crash on you.

Try disabling addIns one by one.

For me it was a conflict between gallio and testdriven.net I think.

Answer 4

I got the exact same error. At first I thought it was the Spark View Engine add-in (because it crashed opening views) but after Christian's comment about Gallio and TestDriven.NET (I have both) I uninstalled Gallio and now it works.

Answer 5

I'm having the same problem and have posted a reply on the official ASP.NET MVC forum at http://forums.asp.net/t/1378448.aspx

I'm not sure, but are you also seeing reference to the Html helpers not showing up in the views (when they don't crash)?

I don't have Gallio installed, but I do have Resharper. I'll see if disabling that helps (although that would cause me a lot of anguish).

Update: Resharper wasn't the issue, but rather the plugin "Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools." It seems some plugins might be conflicting and I encourage people to disable all plugins as a preliminary step in debugging the crashes.

Answer 6

I had to remove the PowerCommands add-in to get VS working again.