Visual Studio 2008Randomly crashing.

If you are using VS'08 and a lot of plugin you may experience some random crash when using "Intellisense" functionality (performing a right click in the source code) or when switching from Debug to Release configuration.

 I may be really difficult  for some to figure from where and for why the crash/freeze occur.

In fact I meet that issue and I finally attached another Visual Studio instance with a debugger and realize that VS was hanging somewhere in the FEACP.DLL

That DLL is the engine of Intellisense.

If you have that kind of problem and that you want double check or experiment VS'08 without Intellisense running behind, you just have to rename that dll in your VS'08 setup folder and restart VS.

It's work fine but without Intellisense, you really need additional plugin to provide, some source browsing capabilities ("Find all references", etc...)