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I was working on a small project today, when I attempted to open the settings for my project. At whch point Visual Studio just closed.

I have seen this behaviour at few times, generally I have just assumed that the settings/resource files have become corrupt or something. And usually deleting them seem to do the job, however on this occasion it did not.

Also every time I went to access the project properties VS died. Even attaching to VS gave no hints to what the problem was.

Looking around on the net it seems to be quite a common problem yet, quite difficult to reproduce.

I have seen several connect issues opened and closed where support could not reproduce it. Seems a bit poor that MS would close so many issues that have similar symptoms.

Most of the solutions I have found were around closing open XAML files in VS and docking any floating windows. This didn’t help.

After removing almost everything from my project short of the project itself I deleted the supporting project files and this seemed to cure the problem (this time!).

If you run into the same problem and can’t find a fix that works, try deleting all of the .suo and .user files and anything else you can find. Trim down your solutions to thier bare minimum (ie, the code), and get rid of anything that is not part of the solution.

Life with no toungue would be really difficult. Aside from the problem talking, how about eating food? Or holding your breath?

If you had no teeth that would really make it difficult

Most of my friends know me as a bit of a M$ fanboy, and if you read some of my previous posts I don’t agree with some of the comments people make about IE… but IE8, Oh.. My.. God.. (to put it lightly)

I think they (you know, them) are right, IE8 could break the internet. I started using it when it was in Beta, and I have tried using the RC, and I still find it failing to do an adequate job.

So I had a choice, continue using IE and get used to the fact that my browsing experience may become a bit more brittle, or find another browser.

I have used Opera for a long time as an alternative browser. Its fast and easy to switch off all the javascript and “content” (i mean flash etc) which makes it very secure and quick webbrowser. But, Opera still feels to “alien”. I wanted an experience like IE, yet better. I want my tabs to open my homepage. I want the pages to actually look the same as they did in IE. (As I often found previously that pages not only rendered differently but fonts and various objects always looked different to me)
It just boiled down to the fact that I like IE. (Or the way IE does it without the crappy crashy bits)

Hmm… better be careful… this could turn into a moany whiney post :P

So I tried Firefox 3, and I was surprised at how quickly it felt so natural. It was quick, much quicker than my previous experiences of Firefox 2. Pages I frequently visited looked the same as they did in IE.

Not only that, I found add ons that reproduced various behaviours that I liked in IE.
Like Tab Mix, so my homepage loads in my new tab. How new tabs open next to my old one, how and when new tabs are opened from other tabs. Really sublte finicky things like that makes a really big difference to me.

But one of the nicest things I love in Firefox is the NoScript add on. Its really easy to block things on pages, I find that I have used Opera less and less to open pages that I don’t like the look of. NoScript blocks the scripts and content, and if I need to I will allow it in a simple click.

So it’s official, Firefox 3 has turned me into a convert!