Friday, July 23, 2010

Visual Studio crashes on opening a solution .sln file

Here's a fix to the problem: delete the .suo files.

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Long version:


My attempts to open solution included: (1) System hard and soft re-boots ; (2) Getting the latest version of the solution from Team Foundation Server; (3) Rolling back changes I had made; and (4) eliminating Visual Studio Add-ins such as Jet Brains Resharper (ver sion 4.5). None of these helped. Blog post and information I found on forums about this issue do not reveal a consistent resolution to the problem (with some folk even reinstalling Visual Studio 2008 and the service packs; others removing and adding references from projects; or removing and re-adding projects in the solution).

I deleted the *.sou file for the solution and I was up and running sans my break points and bookmarks. So maybe the .sou file had become corrupted or Visual Studio was not able to deal with some combination of the elements it stores. Who cares? I was going again! Hopefully this might serve as a quick first option to resolve the issue for those who encounter it
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM

    Thanks,
    deleting the .suo file did the trick for me as well!

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  2. Lost HobbitNovember 1, 2011 at 3:10 AM

    Thanks for this. I presume you mean *.suo, not *.sou? Also, one might have to enable "show hidden files" to find it.

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  3. UnknownNovember 12, 2013 at 9:03 AM

    Thanks this have helped my a lot !!!!

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  4. Emma LiuApril 14, 2016 at 11:45 AM

    thank you! it solves my issue!

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