This is an issue I had with VS 2010 RC and was hoping would be solved with the first official release. Sadly it wasn't.

What I have is a number of reports originally created with VS 2008. When opening any of these for editing in VS 2010's Report Designer VS hangs for about two minutes and then shuts down. Same happens when creating a new report using the wizard. Only difference is that a dialog opens up showing a "Loading ..." message then hangs for about the same amount of time and crashes.

Running devenv /log gives nothing of value.

The Windows Application Event Viewer shows only this:

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 10.0.30319.1, time stamp: 0x4ba1fab3 Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.0.30319.1, time stamp: 0x4ba1d9ef Exception code: 0xc00000fd Fault offset: 0x00001919 Faulting process id: 0xc38 Faulting

And this:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.4927 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (6F551CF2) (0)

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution?

OR -- Is there a better tool for rapidly creating decent reports within a WinForms app?

Help would be greatly appreciated!