I decided to write this small article in the hope that it eventually is well optimized to appear before all the nonsense articles I had to go through before coming to this link. Just follow the link at the bottom of the screen and that file download will fix visual studio if it is crashing from no where. The rest of this article is mainly wording for Search engine optimization on this topic.
Does your Visual studio 2008 environment crash when trying to add new toolbox items?
Does Visual web developer 2008 crash when trying to add new toolbox items?
When checking the event viewer under applications there is “.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 – Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)”. This happens once Visual studio has crashed already.
Does Visual Studio 2008 crash after opening a code window?
Almost every article on the internet refers to Microsoft power commands causing the issue with VS 2008. I didn’t even have Power Commands installed and still got the same problems with regards not being able to add tools to the toolbox. Eventually I came across a completely unrelated article where someone reported a bug to Microsoft that VS 2008 was crashing when they opened a code window with the same application event log as I had “.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 – Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)”. This prompted me to by chance download these files and try them out and amazingly Visual Studio 2008 is now working 100% fine again. Save yourself all the reading and wasted time I spent on this intermittently over many days (perhaps 4-5 hours) and just go to this link and install the files provided here
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827
For all of you that have MS Power Commands installed, just go download the latest version of the software, uninstall what you have and then install the newest version at
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=559
I was becoming very frustrated with this problem until I found your blog.
Thanks. It worked like a charm.
Indeed, it fixed the problem.
Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot pal i was frustrated with this, i had an iso but it didn’t work anymore so i just had to download the image file again just to see web developer crashes. Thanks a lot for this im going to download the fix.
Thanks, save my problem too!
Again, thanks for posting this very useful tip.
I would like to add my thanks to you for solving this problem for me. It worked GREAT!!! and it worked the first time.