Facing abrupt crashes from visual studio 2015 and 2013

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votes

I am facing this issue for last few days. My Visual studio 2015 crashes abruptly. On checking the application event log, i found that for each crash, following log is entered in it.

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 14.0.24720.0, time stamp: 0x564ea97e
Faulting module name: MSWB7.dll, version: 10.0.14291.1001, time stamp: 0x56e7c254
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000ed3a
Faulting process id: 0x1224
Faulting application start time: 0x01d18d0ac67af6bd
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSWB7.dll
Report Id: 6a7487d3-693c-4bd1-b48b-9b2262d8b27f

I tried to find about this 

MSWB7.dll
. So far, I have only found out that it is a part of windows system and used as word breaker for the system. First result on google for "MSWB7.dll" is https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg509108.aspx

My system has Windows 10 with Office 2016. I have all the updates installed for Windows, VS, Office etc.

I am unable to find any solution for this. Had lost quite many hours of work due to it too.

Please Help. Thanks In Advance...

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visual-studiocrashvisual-studio-2015

1 Answers

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votes

Uninstall or disable the "Spell Checker" extension, if you have it installed, as it may be responsible.

Doing some Googling I see people are encountering near identical error logs with this extension in VS 2010 and later. It appears this popular extension has become unstable in newer versions of Visual Studio, see Q&A section here:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7c8341f1-ebac-40c8-92c2-476db8d523ce/view/Reviews

If it's not that extension try disabling other extensions as it appears this kind of crash is often indicative of an extension that becomes incompatible with the newer versions of the IDE.