I am trying to add some 3rd party controls to my Visual Studio Toolbox. However, any time I open the 'Choose Toolbox Item' window and attempt to select the 'Silverlight Components' tab, Visual Studio crashes. It happens every single time.

I am using a fresh VPC with Vista SP1, VSTS 2008, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (with SDK), and Blend 2.5.

Any suggestions?

Kevin Babcock
http://www.myviewstate.net

Do you have VSTS Sp1 beta installed?  Have you had any previous installations of Silverlight Tools or SDK?  Have you customized your Silverlight toolbox at all yet?

I tried this on a clean VM with only VS RTM, and I couldn't get the crash to happen on that machine.

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Yes I know this is a strange problem, and I haven't found anyone who can reproduce it either. However it happens to me every time. I have VS Team Suite 2008 (without SP1 beta) installed on a Vista Ultimate SP1 VM in Virtual PC. The only other things I have installed in the VM are Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (SDK) and the Expression 2 suite.

I'll rebuild the VM and see if that clears something up. Thanks for your help.

Kevin Babcock
http://www.myviewstate.net

I just want to confirm that this happens to me too. I'm running Vista SP1, Visual Studio SP1 and Silverlight Tools 2.0 RC0 in Bootcamp.

The Visual Studio add-ins I have installed are ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates, Web Deployment Projects, Power Commands for Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008 CTP. Hope this helps.

I had a lot of crahes while compiling the UI , normaly when page.xaml is closed it works fine, perhaps you can edit it whit expression blend and compile it with the xaml's closed

You might try going to the VS Command Prompt and type:  devenv /reset

 This has helped me in the past when things were failing to get added to the toolbox.

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Thanks,
Wade

Has anyone found a resolution for this? I'm using VS2008 VSTS sp1 on Vista Ultimate sp1

Just found a solution that fixed it for me.

devenv /safemode

When VS opens up add the controls to your toolbox.