Visual Studio solution explorer out of memory exception

Question

When I open the visual studio 2010 premium, Solution explorer doesn\'t show up. It was working and now its not.

It is showing a out of memory exception. Any help wou

Answer 1

try resetting visual studio by closing it out completely and running the following command.

devenv /resetsettings

Answer 2

I would recommend submitting this to https://connect.microsoft.com as a bug.

They will most likely ask for more information.

Answer 3

This exception can have more than one cause. It isn't very likely that Visual Studio is actually running out of memory, the system might be running low on resources. The desktop heap is one of them. A simple reboot will fix that.

If this reoccurs, use Taskmgr.exe to try to find the processes that are hogging resources. View + Select Columns, tick Handles, USER objects and GDI objects. If it is Explorer then you have a misbehaving shell extension handler.