Visual Studio 2010 crashes repeatedly

Question

I\'ve been running Visual Studio 2010 (the official release) for some time now. Lately, VS will crash 10+ times during my 8 hour work day. In VS2008, crashes were common when wo

Answer 1

Logging helps indeed. I have the same problem with crashes. Since there could be numerous reasons and lots of log data, I wrote this .bat (Win7 x64, VS2010 Express) to keep logs organized and easy to analyze:

    @echo off

    rem date and time in format YYYYMonDD_hhmmss
    set year=%DATE:~-4%
    set month=%DATE:~3,2%
    set day=%DATE:~0,2%

    IF %month%==01 set monthstr=Jan
    IF %month%==02 set monthstr=Feb
    IF %month%==03 set monthstr=Mar
    IF %month%==04 set monthstr=Apr
    IF %month%==05 set monthstr=May
    IF %month%==06 set monthstr=Jun
    IF %month%==07 set monthstr=Jul
    IF %month%==08 set monthstr=Aug
    IF %month%==09 set monthstr=Sep
    IF %month%==10 set monthstr=Oct
    IF %month%==11 set monthstr=Nov
    IF %month%==12 set monthstr=Dec

    set now=%TIME:~0,-3%
    set now=%now::=%
    set now=%now: =0%
    set now=%year%%monthstr%%day%_%now%

    start "VS2010 express" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VCExpress.exe" /Log "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VSlogs\VS_log_%now%.txt"

Answer 2

While developing C++ code, Visual Studio 2010 started crashing frequently and at random times after I enabled the Task List.

As an alternative to using the Task List, I am now simply using the Find in Files tool (Ctrl+Shift+F) and searching for the string TODO as an alternative.