Microsoft KB Archive/891405

= The IDE unexpectedly closes after about one minute when you load a Visual Studio .NET project =

Article ID: 891405

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Academic Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you load a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET project, the IDE unexpectedly closes after about one minute. You may receive an error message that is similar to the following:

Microsoft Development Environment has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If McAfee VirusScan antivirus software is installed on your computer, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following:

An unhandled exception has been caught by the VSW exception filter.

You may also see an error signature that is similar to the following:   Application name  Application version  Module name  Module version  Offset devenv.exe       7.0.9466.0           Ntdll.dll    5.0.2195.5400   0004b836



CAUSE
This issue occurs if a bug causes internal objects that represent the types to be incorrectly allocated. For example, this issue occurs when you add an #import directive of an external type library that has multiple exports to your project.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, change the attribute for the .ncb file of the project to Read-Only.

Note This change disables Microsoft IntelliSense in your project.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: crash

Keywords: kberrmsg kbtshoot kbbug kbprb kbvs2002sp1sweep kbvs2005swept kbvs2005doesnotapply KB891405

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