VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

Tim Hibbard CEO for EnGraph software

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I keep getting this error in Visual Studio 2008 on Vista:

I'm not sure what the issue is, but if you get this error, just stop the VSPerfMon.exe process and you can continue testing without rebooting your computer.

Technorati tags: .NET, Unit Testing, VSTestHost, VSPerfMon

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:02 PM .NET | Back to top

Comments on this post: VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

# re: VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

You probably have some sort of infinite recursion in your program causing a StackOverFlowException. Check for it!

Left by Colin Basnett on Apr 29, 2008 2:46 PM

# re: VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

I resolved changing advanced compiler settings on Target CPU to x32 instead of any CPU in VS2008. Im currently using Windows 7 x64.

Left by Makepeace on Nov 02, 2009 6:14 PM

# re: VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

news for rich peoples from another contry /

Left by tyh on Jan 06, 2011 10:17 AM

# re: VSTestHost.exe has stopped working

This error basically related to the host process being stopped due to unhandled exception in the background thread. when vsts comes across with this kind of exception, it tries to restart/stop the host process.
In earlier versions of vsts (like 2008), it was allowing the execution of the test without stopping the main test thread; but in VSTS2010, it just stops or try to restart the host process. The only possible solution for this, is to revisit the code and try to resolve the exception in the background thread.

Left by sachin on May 11, 2011 5:39 PM

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