For future reference of anyone else, I found out the following:

"It is a problem with an add in, in this case with Visual SVN. You need to install the latest version at 1.3.1"

Alex

>I installed VS 2008 and ran into the following message "Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error" whenever I clicked on a menu item (not on the top menu, only the items on drop down menu).
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>After uninstalling VS 2008 and Stataframe, which I thought might have been the problem, and reinstalling VS 2008 I still have the same problem.
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>VS 2005 runs fine.
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>Anyone know what may it be?
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>TIA,
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>Alex