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Crashes when rearrenging tabs

DrDress 16 Reputation points
2021-02-15T07:27:20.927+00:00

I'm working on a project on Dropbox and am opening it from different computers. Suddenly my taps was all moved around. But when I try to drag them to their proper position VS crashes. It then restarts where I left off.

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  1. Sergey Vlasov 266 Reputation points
    2021-02-16T03:49:15.367+00:00

    See Unexpected VS crash when docking or splitting windows caused by a recent Windows 10 update.

    7 people found this answer helpful.
  2. Yudong Sun 11 Reputation points
    2021-03-19T12:11:45.603+00:00

    I am suffering the same crashing with Visual Studio Professional 2013 Version 12.0.40629.00 Update 5. The problem started to happen a few days ago.

    Is there any fix for VS 2013? Due to the license, I can't upgrade to a new version.

    Developer Community has discussions on deleting Windows updates such as KB4598299 and KB4598301. I can't find these updates on my computer.

    Thanks!

    2 people found this answer helpful.
  3. DC86 6 Reputation points
    2021-05-19T12:46:36.127+00:00
    1 person found this answer helpful.
  4. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 30,566 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-02-16T03:21:03.39+00:00

    Hello @DrDress ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

    Please check these three aspects: Visual Studio(VS) itself(IDE, settings), Dropbox and other extensions or development environment.

    Firstly, close every VS instances and delete the bin, obj and the hidden .vs folder in your solution folder -> restart VS -> clean and rebuild your solution -> run your project > try to move the tabs and check if it works well this time.

    Secondly, please avoid the impact from Dropbox and create a new simple project, and try to reproduce this issue.

    If VS works well, I’m afraid this issue may be caused by the impact from Dropbox, I suggest you report this issue to VS Product Team in our Developer Community by using VS > Help > Send Feedback > Report a problem and also report it to Dropbox related community or forum.

    If VS crashes again, please restart VS and follow this document: Reset settings to reset VS settings(select General on step 4 and export VS settings before resetting it if necessary), check the tabs again. Try to repair VS if this doesn’t work.

    For impacts from other extensions and development environment, I suggest you disable any third-party extensions temporarily and run VS in Safe Mode to re-dock the tabs.

    If the issue remains, please launch Developer Command Prompt for VS XXXX from Start Menu, and run "devenv.exe /log" then reproduce this issue in VS, after that close VS and go to %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\ActivityLog.xml, share me the ActivityLog.xml file for further check.

    Feel free to let me know the results.

    Best Regards,
    Tianyu

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  5. DC86 6 Reputation points
    2021-04-29T03:28:26.123+00:00

    I can't find those updates either. VS2013 on Win10, and I have the same problem as of late.

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