Thanks Luc. I am planning on doing something with the exception besides swallowing it...Probably rethrow, I just haven't decided yet.

I have read many articles on expception handling in C# and I have a question regarding the use of multiple catch blocks. Is there any purpose for using multiple (specific) catch blocks if all exceptions will be handled the same way? NOTE: At the moment I am only adding exception logging to the application not exception handling.

Ah, I missed that reply when I was reading through them...must've been a different problem or a different reason for the problem. Thanks

Hi Gerhard, I was having the same problem with vs2008 and the "Choose Items" command in the toolbox. Any chance you have Power Commands 2008 installed? I had it installed because it offered functionality to collapse all projects among other things. Well apparently there is some sort of comflict between vs 2008 and power commands 2008. For more info visit: http://www.imaginativeuniversal.com/blog/VisualStudio2008SP1ToolboxCrash.aspx Hope this helps, proganon