debugger continuously crashing

Project:VS.Php for Visual Studio 2005
Component:Debugger
Category:bug report
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

I have the following setup:

External debugging using:

Windows Vista (build 6000)
Apache 2.2.5
PHP 5.2.4
DBG
Visual Studio 2005, SP1
VS.PHP 2.3.6.4068
Firefox 2.0.11 or Explorer 7.0.6000.16546

The problem appears to be caused by Vista though, as previously when I was using Windows XP, it rarely crashed.

Basically, the debugger crashes when:

1) viewing objects in the watch window
2) highlighting code in the editor window to check the values of variables when debugging
3) hitting breakpoints
4) after a random period of time - say between 30 seconds and 2 minutes

Are you aware of this?
Rich

Memory dumps will follow...

Comments

    further to this...

    On December 17th, 2007 richardu said:

    I can't get any memory dump, because it is the debugger process which is crashing, and a debugger can't be attached to it because one already is.

    do you have any sort of patch for this? It's infuriating and I'm on the verge of throwing your product away...

    You can generate a memory

    On December 17th, 2007 webmaster said:

    You can generate a memory dump if you attach the debugger via remote debugging. Run msvsmon and use the remote debugging in Visual Studio.

    This crash is most likely due to a watch variable.

    Also you may want to consider using this version of the debugger which contain traces. The traces can be gathered using DbgView. That might also give us an indication of what the problem is.

    http://www.jcxsoftware.com/jcx/files/debugger.zip

    Thanks for your patience