"Catastrophic Failure" in Visual Studio.NET
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When I try search-and-replace text in certain C files with Visual Studio.NET, I get a message box with a red X, the title "Microsoft Development Environment" and the message "Catastrophic failure". The development environment DOES NOT crash and if I repeat the search-and-replace, it seems to work. Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea what's causing it or how to avoid it? I get no hits on the Knowledge base when I search the knowledge base on "Catastrophic failure visual studio". Also, I can't find anywhere in the Visual Studio Help or on MSDN about submitting a bug report (searching for "Bug report" "Visual studio" on MSDN returns no relevant hits) and there is nothing about submitting bug reports on the "Visual Studio," "Customer Support," or "Contact Microsoft" pages at MSDN. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, are you interested in bug reports and if so, how does someone find out where to submit them?
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When I try search-and-replace text in certain C files with Visual Studio.NET, I get a message box with a red X, the title "Microsoft Development Environment" and the message "Catastrophic failure". The development environment DOES NOT crash and if I repeat the search-and-replace, it seems to work. Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea what's causing it or how to avoid it? I get no hits on the Knowledge base when I search the knowledge base on "Catastrophic failure visual studio". Also, I can't find anywhere in the Visual Studio Help or on MSDN about submitting a bug report (searching for "Bug report" "Visual studio" on MSDN returns no relevant hits) and there is nothing about submitting bug reports on the "Visual Studio," "Customer Support," or "Contact Microsoft" pages at MSDN. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, are you interested in bug reports and if so, how does someone find out where to submit them?
Jonathan -- I'll investigate your report about search-replace. Regarding submitting bug reports, please use this link. Also, for more information on product support for Visual C++, please read my article on the subject. Regards, Nick Hodapp This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Jonathan -- I'll investigate your report about search-replace. Regarding submitting bug reports, please use this link. Also, for more information on product support for Visual C++, please read my article on the subject. Regards, Nick Hodapp This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I tried submitting the bug on that page and got:
State=37000][Error=4060][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open database requested in login 'Feedback'. Login fails.
Resubmitting gets the same response. Anyway, since you know about it from this forum, I won't lose any sleep over it and will assume that you have ways of figuring out what to do with the report (mv /dev/nul ;) ). It has always puzzled me why some folks at Microsoft (certainly not you) seem to put so many barriers in the way of receiving feedback from users. I would have thought that putting information on bug reporting somewhere accessible, such as on the VS.NET home page, would provide useful information to the VS.NET team. You say yourself in the article to which you thoughtfully provided the link, that "how do I submit a bug report" is a FAQ, which leads me to wonder why a FAQ is not answered in a reasonably obvious place on the MSDN web, the KB, or the VS online help.