Using 6.3.9 (and also 6.4), if Visual Studio is running with a VWG designer window active and my screen saver starts, locking my workstation, upon return to my session (after unlocking the workstation with password) Visual Studio throws errors.

An error dialog appears at the bottom right of my screen but the graphics are so badly damaged that I can't see the text -- only a white dialog with a button in the middle. Clicking it repeatedly re-throws the error until Visual Studio crashes with an option to send the info to Microsoft and a checkbox to restart Visual Studio.

This behavior does not happen if the solution is open and the designer is not active. I had not seen this behavior prior to 6.3.9, either.

I've taken a few screenshots of how bad my display looks when the error occurs and can mail those to you on request. It seems that VStudio recovers a bit when I close down the personal web server(s) that show up in the tray area, but it doesn't come back.

I haven't used VWG for some time, waiting for the package to get tighter before comitting to purchasing, and have just purchased in anticipation of the changes that will occur in 6.4. So before I go through the exercise of downloading, uninstalling, and reinstalling to find the last version that doesn't exhibit this, I tried to capture the invisible text that appears in the error dialog from VStudio and was able to do so. The error is:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Cannot access a disposed object.

Object name: 'DesignerFrame'.
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OK  
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Does that help enough, or should I start working backwards to find a version that doesn't exhibit this behavior?

Thanks.

-- Michael

Hi,

Thank you for the additional information, we understand the scenario and we are going to try and reproduce it here in our labs and get back to you in this post as soon as possible.

Kind Regards,
Itzik Spitzen