>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>The last week I have experienced VS 2008 crashing several times per hour. I find myself saving and checking in at least every couple of minutes. This has happened after virtually no changes to my PC that I can think of I don't notice anything specific to be the cuase or trigger.
>>>
>>>The message I get is asking if I want to Debug, close the application, or restart the application. Occasionally win I restart I get a message indicating VS can recover some files but that has proven to be a worse idea then just retyping what I did.
>>>
>>>anybody else having any issues like this? If so any ideas on how to correct it?
>>>
>>>I am running VS 2008 Development Edition Version 9.0.30729.1 SP with Dot Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 on a 64bit windows 7 box with 12GIG RAM and a Intel Xeon 2.4GHz 2 Core processor.
>>>Thanks
>>>Tim
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Does this happen whilst you're just working with the IDE or when you try running the app (sounds like you mean the former?)
>>Can you learn anything from trying the Debug option ?
>>I had this happen a couple of times once but I *think* it was related to a dicey connection to VSS.
>>You could try reducing the setting for AutoRecover (Options/Environment menu) - that might reduce the loss a changes. But I know that's not much of an answer :-{
>>Is this only happening with a particular solution/project ?
>>Don't know if it's relevant but what type of app is it - ASP.NET/Winforms/WPF ?
>
>I just got the opportunity to try debug and it didn't yield much. I received:
>"An unhandled win32 exception occurred in devenv.exe[6900]. And then a message about the debugger needs to be launched with necessary security permissions.
>
>On a side note, I always start visual studio by right clicking and saying run as administrator. If I don't I have problems with using some tools that are installed and integrated with VS.
>Tim

See if this pertains...
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/thread/62d3ab35-8536-4a96-91fa-3e81c66186a9/?ffpr=0
http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/clr-hotfix-available-for-visual-studio-2008-rapid-crashing/