I am using VWG 6.3.6.a in VS 2005.  Once or twice a day VS2005 is crashing, when I am using Visual Webgui.  So far the only symptom I have noticed  when a crash is about to happen is that the properties window property grid is completely blank. though the dropdown at the top of the properties window (the one that displays the different controls on the form) is not.  There is of course an automatic error report that goes to Microsoft when recovering from the crash.  

What information can I supply that would help to debug this crash problem?

Hi,

This occurs with VS2008 as well.

If I can't see a property I do a save and restart VS2008 or my changes will be lost when it crashes.

I also notice that the directories such a Resources and App_Data display the expanded view before the crash occurs.

Jay

Hi guys,

This is the worst kind of problem there is... not being able to provide detailed steps that reproduce it, preferably every time.

There have been issues reported in the past that might be something in this direction, and may even well be a part of this problem, but many of them have been closed, as there is no way for the developer to reproduce it. I would gladly write an issue for you if I thought this would add something to what has allready been written... but when we don't quite manage to get our fingers on it, then it's difficult.

My opinion, and my advice, is that we all watch out for patterns that we might spot that will reproduce this problem. Something like I finally (with help from the community) wrote down inside this issue here. If you find something reproducable, please let us know.

Generally about this problem, it may even be the same one as in the issue I referenced, so this might get fixed when that gets fixed.

Palli