Why is VS crashing when starting a debug session or when first opening a managed project?
There are a set of registry keys that are used by the support team to obtain verbose logging for several debugging components. Deleting them can stop VS from crashing. VS2008: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Support\Trace VS2005: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.