When using BIDS 2005, me and my fellow workers, experience fatal BIDS errors at client pc's which operate at windows XP.

We connect to a solution stored at the network drive.
About 5 to 10 times a day fatal errors occur which cause BIDS to restart.

When working on terminal session, with windows server 2003, there is no such behaviour.

Is my suggestion right that BIDS is unstable at XP operating system?

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Business Intelligence professional

I work daily with BIDS 2005 under Windows XP and I never had any problems like you.

The only difference I see is I don't have my solution on a network drive, I also have them local on my system.

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Olaf Helper ----------- * cogito ergo sum * errare humanum est * quote erat demonstrandum * Wenn ich denke, ist das ein Fehler und das beweise ich täglich http://olafhelper.over-blog.de

Hi Olaf, my solution is at a network drive, and all data sources point to servers.

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Business Intelligence professional

I only have the BIDS solution local, all other resources like SQL Server, Analysis & Reporting services are located on a server.

We work also in a team and to share the solution we use subversion as a source versioning software; this is also on a server.

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Olaf Helper ----------- * cogito ergo sum * errare humanum est * quote erat demonstrandum * Wenn ich denke, ist das ein Fehler und das beweise ich täglich http://olafhelper.over-blog.de

Hi Peglegspeedking,

The issue should be a Visual Studio issue. I will help to move this thread to Visual Studio forum. Then you will get more and more help from that forum.

Appreciate your understanding.

Thanks,
Jin Chen

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Jin Chen - MSFT

Hi Peglegspeedking

What fatal error did you encounter?

You can try some general points mentioned here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/0376db8f-4761-4ae5-9af2-98c53216318a#VS_IDE_unexpected_problems to see if they help.

thanks.

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