Roy - Reading up on the comments on JP's blog, it looks like it may be a plug-in (SVN)? given he has VS 2005 and other stuff on the machine.
You cannot exactly blame Microsoft if a plug-in causes the application to behave badly or crash; although it would be better if (like Vista does), VS 2008 could report - "I crashed because of this badly behaving plugin".
David, when I read it there were no comments on that post, and JP specifically said that this was a *clean* install, the first time he opened it on a clean machine.
Just let me know when you manage to release a bug free software..
I have installed VS2008 on 3 developer machines and it works
Roy, everyone: I'm inclined to believe it's an add-on. I had another add-on which crashed VS2008 repeatedly.
According to the add-on programmer, they changed the ways menus work in VS2008, so that it broke a lot of add-ons.
Hi Roy,
I think that some plugin settings may be migrated. Plugins like R# and td.net don't crash VS but do need reinstalling to work correctly. Other plugins however may be causing vs to crash. Some reports that visualsvn have caused this but folks mileage may vary. My advice is if you run into this is to reinstall all plugins.
Andy
vs2008 rtm has a really bad bug - try this
if you have a mouse wheel:
set the scrolling to 1 whole page in the windows mouse settings. open up VS 2008 - open a file (ie. *.ascx or *.ascx.cs) scroll down with the mouse wheel: visual studio 2008 orcas crashes
that happened on two of our workstations (one 32bit; one 64bit windows vista)
if you set the mouse wheel action to scroll X lines at a time it doesn't crash.
Toebens - I had the same issue here on two machines with Vista and VS2008 RTM.
Resetting to "X" lines per screen worked.
Same problem here - crashing on mouse wheel movement. I refuse to switch from "one page at a time" to "xxx lines" because of my daily needs, so I uninstalled Visual Web Developer 2008. WTH???
I have the identical problem w/ VS 2008 RTM on XP SP2. Have the mouse wheel set to scroll one page at a time. Whenever I try to use it on a designer or code-behind page, VS crashes. Changing to "x" lines per screen fixed it.