Tuesday, 31 August 2010

VS2005 crashes when editing a data flow

Had an unusual issue with BIDS/VS2005 today where the environment (specifically the devenv.exe process) would crash when particular package was opened and someone tried to edit the Data Flow. This occurred on multiple workstations with the same solution/project.

The Windows event log contained the following information:

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 8.0.50727.867, time stamp: 0x45d2c842
Faulting module name: msdds.dll, version: 9.0.30729.4462, time stamp: 0x4b2fa701
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002006b
Faulting process id: 0x1c30
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb489014680845
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSDesigners8\msdds.dll
Report Id: 6e0187f5-b483-11df-8963-6cf049256ac3

Very confusing initially but after a bit of Googling we found a simple solution: in the Build menu in BIDS select the "Rebuild Solution". This corrected whatever corruption had occurred and the package could be edited normally.

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