http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/16/467971.aspxOne of the newer "features" in Visual Studio 8.0 is the ability for us to collect better information about exceptions that are thrown in VS. When an exception is thrown (and unhandled), VS will generate a Watson report that will send microsoft a minidumpen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/16/467971.aspx#470931Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:22:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:470931jfoscodingThe most frequent problem is if you have a stack overflow exception in your custom control. <br> <br>The best way to debug this is to open up your visual studio command window and use the &quot;mdbg&quot; application to debug visual studio. <br> <br> <br>c:&gt; mdbg.exe <br>r devenv.exe <br>ca ee <br>g <br> <br>This should help you track down your stack overflow exception. When you get it, you can type &quot;where&quot; to show the stack, if you want more frames type &quot;where 200&quot;. <br> <br> <br>http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/16/467971.aspx#470933Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:26:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:470933jfo's codingBen talks about working with custom controls that can crash VS, and how to delete the .suo file to prevent...http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/16/467971.aspx#471016Mon, 19 Sep 2005 04:45:37 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:471016dhchaitThe binary .suo file is a cause of problems in VS2k3, especially when sharing amongst a team. <br> <br>Any chance of making them readable (xml, say)? <br> <br> - Daniel