Is anyone else exripeencing severe instability in the Windows Phone design surface since the last round of Microsoft Updates? I've been getting very frequent designer crashes. Most of the time it just claims it can't load some assembly (there are several, it varies). Occasionally the whole VS IDE dies. Sometimes click-to-reload works. Generally, recompiling then clicking to reload is more successful. It's usable, but only if you have a lot of patience. I don't believe this is specific to my computer as it happened at home and at work, and one of these is 64 bit Win7Ult, and the other is 32-bit Win7Ult (it's an elderly notebook), and in both cases the problems started right after updates forced a reboot.
From:
Kanthasamy
(Sat Jan 26 22:05:33 2013)
Is anyone else exripeencing severe instability in the Windows Phone design surface since the last round of Microsoft Updates? I've been getting very frequent designer crashes. Most of the time it just claims it can't load some assembly (there are several, it varies). Occasionally the whole VS IDE dies. Sometimes click-to-reload works. Generally, recompiling then clicking to reload is more successful. It's usable, but only if you have a lot of patience. I don't believe this is specific to my computer as it happened at home and at work, and one of these is 64 bit Win7Ult, and the other is 32-bit Win7Ult (it's an elderly notebook), and in both cases the problems started right after updates forced a reboot.
