My Visual Studio 2010 installation (version 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel) is crashing when I open a C# project. After the crash, it reopens in a new window, but all the text is black, intellisense doesn’t work, etc.
I reinstalled it, installed fixes, etc., but nothing is helping.
The last activity log entry before the crash is:
<entry>
<record>262</record>
<time>2012/01/22 12:04:12.473</time>
<type>Information</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editor.Implementation.EditorPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editor.Implementation, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a]</description>
<guid>{E269B994-EF71-4CE0-8BCD-581C217372E8}</guid>
</entry>
How do I isolate the error?
Copying reference assemblies, from C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies to wherever your Program Files is, solved the problem. Apparently Visual Studio can’t handle this if you don’t have your PF in the standard folder. Problem solved.