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SQL 2008 SSMS Server Management Studio crashes all the time since last week.

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Alan Levin

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 11:42 AM

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SQL 2008 Express Server Management Studio SSMS crashes all the time with the following message:

SSMS - SQL Server Management Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

What can I do??? Please Help! Is this a .NET Framework issue??!! How can I get more on this error??

Thanks so much!!!

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Chand00

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:40 AM

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Hi,

Check out the eventviewer it will give more info on the error. start->run->eventvwr

Thanks
Chandra Mohan N

Thanks
Chandra Mohan

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Alan Levin

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:57 AM

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Hi Chandra:

Thanks so much! The event viewer gave me a big clue.

The error I get is:

.NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting.

Do I need to reinstall .NET Runtime 2.0?

Thanks again!
Alan

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Alan Levin

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:00 PM

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Hi Chandra and all who have this problem:

I found a sort of solution that works!

The error is really in the msenv.dll. I had an older version that I replaced with a newer one in my Program Files\Microsoft SQL SERVER\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE directory. My problem msenv.dll was dated 4/28/2008. I replaced it with one dated 7/30/2008.

The only issue is when SSMS comes up, it shows none of my databases. I had to reattach them and give them new names.

This is definitely a SQL SSMS bug.

If any of you have this problem, I would be happy to elaborate further. I'll check this forum quite often.

All the Best,
Alan

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rlondon

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:14 PM

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Where do you get a newer msenv.dll file, and does this solution work for SQL Server 2005?

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Alan Levin

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:28 PM

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I did a search of all my hard drives for the file msenv.dll. I found 2 different versions. One dated 4/2008 and the other (the correct one) dated 7 28/2008 (1 forget the exact day but the month was 7).

Use that newer dll and let me know if you find it or have problems.

Good Luck!

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Alan Levin

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:30 PM

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Newer msenv.dll has date of 7/28/2008/

Not sure if this will work for SQL 2005.

Good luck again!

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rlondon

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:57 PM

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I found a newer version on my machine and replaced my old file. SSMS comes up fine so far. Hopefully it will fix my problem too. Thanks for the help. Smile