VsTestHost Crashing

Slow week on the blog. Been busy with work, flooring project at home, and getting ready to announce a new personal development project (and all the research I’ve been putting into it).

VsTestHost was crashing on me today. It started out that TD.Net was failing, so I switched over to using the TestView to invoke the tests, fail. Since I’m running VS 2008 B2, I switched back to VS 2005 and created a new solution with only a handful of projects, fail. Installed the latest version of TD.Net, fail. Googled on VsTestHost.exe, only got a handful of results, one of which suggested re-installing VS (argh). Finally decided to test in debug mode, oh look a stack over flow exception. One of the posts on Google even mentioned that stack overflow exceptions are not (always) caught by VsTestHost. The stack overflow exception was caused by a property referencing itself, which was the result of an over ambitious find replace all.

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