Visual Studio Professional 2013 Crashes When Opening Solutions/Files

Question

I\'ve been trying to open some of the webpage/database solutions I made while working for my previous employer, to get a refresher on what they were, but for some reason Vis

Answer 1

Try invoking Visual Studio from the command line.

devenv.exe /log

Then try to open your solution and then if it crashes, go look at the

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\\ActivityLog.xml 

file. it should have details on the crash. Also, the event logs may capture some high level events as well.