Visual Studio Crashing when opening D project

[Joe at bloow.edu]

On Monday, 16 October 2023 at 15:10:06 UTC, Joe wrote:
> I do not know if this is a specific D issue but for some reason 
> a D project I have refuses to open. It opens by showing the 
> main VS window then immediately goes away(no crash error).
>
> I installed the latest VD and it allowed me to open it the 
> first time. I have deleted the .vs to no avail. I have also ran 
> with /Log and it let me open it the first time.
>
> It seems that there is something in the project(it is a 
> completely new project except for a small amount of code I 
> copied and pasted(it was a new project I started).
>
> Not sure what is causing it. Other non-d projects are working 
> but some other VD projects I tried to open also started having 
> the problem. Seems to be a relatively new issue that happened 
> in the last few days.
>
> Only real thing I did was install some hyper V type of stuff 
> and I think windows updated. I didn't update VD before this 
> started happening so either it is a HD or MEM corruption issue 
> or some issue with configurations. I can't find out where any 
> logs for VS or VD are stored to get any meaningful results.
>
> I have had issues recently with VD though having to do with 
> intellisense where it would just silently crash when using 
> intellisense. I had to disable it. I imagine it is connected.

I opened up a python project and tried to copy a line and it 
crashed. Looked at the VS logs:

   <entry>
     <record>357</record>
     <time>2023/10/16 14:58:48.091</time>
     <type>Error</type>
     <source>VisualStudio</source>
     <description>No InprocServer32 registered for package [Visual 
D]</description>
     <guid>{002A2DE9-8BB6-484D-987F-7E4AD4084715}</guid>
     <hr>0x80070008</hr>
     <path>C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\x64\visuald.dll</path>

This was after upgrading VD to the latest beta.

I uninstalled VD and the crashing stopped but I got an error 
about the SQL server: SetSite failed for package [Microsoft SQL 
Server Data Tools] but it could be ignored.

   <entry>
     <record>3675</record>
     <time>2023/10/16 15:01:37.801</time>
     <type>Error</type>
     <source>VisualStudio</source>
     <description>SetSite failed for package [Microsoft SQL Server 
Data Tools]Source: 'System.Core' Description: Object 
reference not set to an instance of an 
object.&#x000D;&#x000A;System.NullReferenceException: Object 
reference not set to an instance of an object.&#x000D;&#x000A;   
at System.Collections.Generic.HashSet`1.AddIfNotPresent(T 
value)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at 
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Tools.Package.Explorers.SqlServerObjectExplorer.SqlServerObjectExplorerContextMenuController.RegisterForCommandRouting(IOleCommandTarget target)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Tools.Package.DesignerServices.DatabaseChangesManager.Initialize()&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()&#x000D;&#x000A;--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()&#x000D;&#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VsTask.RethrowException(AggregateException e)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VsTask.InternalGetResult(Boolean ignoreUIThreadCheck)</description>
     <guid>{00FEE386-5F9F-4577-99F4-F327FAFC0FB9}</guid>
     <hr>0x80004003 - E_POINTER</hr>
     <errorinfo></errorinfo>
   </entry>

I'm updating VS now and I will install VD again later to see if 
anything has changed. These issues only started happening 
recently.. I did update windows about a week ago but I don't know 
if it is related.