Re: How to crash the IDE/Compiler in 5 lines of code (BUG)

From: Rarlfth Nadar (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:05:29 -0400

I'm using 2003 Enterprise, and I came across it the hard way - slow,
painful, deduction.

I have a large solution (24 projects). I was changing one of the projects,
copying and pasting code (changed some architecture/namespaces), when the
crash happened. I had another guy helping me, and he found a KB article
which described the exact symptoms I was having, and apparently happened
mostly with large solutions. The fix was to call MS, which I did. They
sent the hotfixes email, which didn't fix the problem, so I rolled back the
project I was working on (after copying it to a different folder). I then
opened the copied project, and began cutting/pasting little by little into
my newly-rolled-back-one. I crashed a couple more times doing this, and
slowly narrowed it down to a single constructor - then I saw the error,
corrected it, pasted it in and voila!. I did this a couple of times,
alternately pasting in the "fixed" code and the "broken" code, and could
duplicate the problem. Finally I created a new project, class, and
constructor, typed in the .NEW line, and the rest is a lost day :)

Now, don't you wish you hadn't asked how I came across that one?

Brent
"Nak" <a@a.com> wrote in message
news:egYAjPapEHA.3364@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi Rarlfth,
>
>> After talking with MS Support, they emailed me a couple of hotfixes, but
>> they didn't fix the problem. From the changes in behavior, it looks like
>> the hotfixes just replaced the compiler dll with one that loaded slightly
>> differenly (errors occurred at different times, etc) if that makes any
>> sense.
>
> LOL! This doesn't suprise me, I bet they have known about this one for
> a long time, or at least you would have hoped anyway! I must admit I
> didn't try it for as long as you after the crash, so I shall take your
> word for it. Out of interest, what version are you using? I'm using
> VB.NET 2002 Standard because I'm a cheap tight assed barstweard! (J/K).
> But I am using that version anyway, I've come to accept allot of the bugs,
> not that I like them of course!
>
> By the way, how the hell did you come across this one? ;-)
>
> Nick.
>
>

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