"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23xH6dmjIGHA.3752@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> While running my application, either in or out of the debugger, after a
> while the message box pops up that says "MyApp.vshost.exe has encountered
> a problem and needs to close." What does the vshost.exe do? I don't get
> any other errors in my app and VB doesn't show any error. My application
> becomes unresponsive and closes when I click out of the error message.
> From that point, I can simply click the "Run" button in the IDE and
> re-start my application. But back to the origianl "needs to close"
> dialog.
>
> If I click the Debug button, the JIT window opens for me to choose the
> debugger to use. The only choice is "New instance of Visual Studio 2005".
> The error text in this window is "An unhandled win32 Exception has
> occurred in MyApp.vshost.exe" So I click OK, and a new VS2005 opens up
> and all I get is a disassembly listing.
>
> Is there something in my program that's causing this? Or is this a problem
> elsewhere?
>

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is for debugging. Here is an article on it. Not sure why you
> are getting an error.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242202.aspx
>
> Maybe there is an event log entry on the crash that will help figure out the
> problem.
>
> Ken
> -------------------
> "Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23xH6dmjIGHA.3752@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > While running my application, either in or out of the debugger, after a
> > while the message box pops up that says "MyApp.vshost.exe has encountered
> > a problem and needs to close." What does the vshost.exe do? I don't get
> > any other errors in my app and VB doesn't show any error. My application
> > becomes unresponsive and closes when I click out of the error message.
> > From that point, I can simply click the "Run" button in the IDE and
> > re-start my application. But back to the origianl "needs to close"
> > dialog.
> >
> > If I click the Debug button, the JIT window opens for me to choose the
> > debugger to use. The only choice is "New instance of Visual Studio 2005".
> > The error text in this window is "An unhandled win32 Exception has
> > occurred in MyApp.vshost.exe" So I click OK, and a new VS2005 opens up
> > and all I get is a disassembly listing.
> >
> > Is there something in my program that's causing this? Or is this a problem
> > elsewhere?
> >
>
>