Take the 2-minute tour ×  In Visual Studio, a certain project
has a designer window open which is crashing visual studio. As
soon as I open visual studio it crashes. I know that if I could
close that designer, I'd be back in business. But I can't click
the close button on the designer view before studio crashes.
What should I do?  Note: I tried devenv.exe /safemode. When I
tried this, the designer still was open and the DevExpress suite
loaded, and the guage control was showing on the design surface,
and then studio crashed.  share|improve this question Is this a
WPF application per chance? –  Anthony Potts Dec 9 '09 at 16:16
add comment  2 Answers  up vote 2 down vote accepted  If the
project is part of a Visual Studio Solution you can delete the
solution user options file ([Solution File Name].suo). This way
Visual Studio will not open any files when starting.  You would
probably continue to have the problem as soon as you open that
designer though.  share|improve this answer add comment  You can
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