VB.NET Program Locks Up with Internet Explorer Opened
- by aaronsj
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and developing a VB.NET application.
I'm having strange lockup problems with my program, but only when Internet explorer 8 is opened.
When I cover my form with another window and then uncover it, I find that it has locked up.
My program has no references to IE and the only thing it even has to do with IE is using Process.Start with a web address.
My program works fine and exactly as it should, but only when IE is not opened.
Does anyone know why a program would lock up only while IE is running?
Edit: I've done some digging and I've found the offending thread in my program.
I don't know what starts this thread or what it does, but when I kill it, my program no longer freezes. The thread is one of the CreateApplicationContext threads, here is the last few items in the stack trace of that thread.
6 ntkrnlpa.exe+0x897bc
7 ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
8 mscorwrks.dll!LogHelp_TerminateOnAssert+0x61
9 mscorwrks.dll!DllUnregisterServerInternal+0x10523
10 mscorwrks.dll!DllUnregisterServerInternal+0x10542
11 mscorwrks.dll!StrongNameErrorInfo+0x34387
12 mscorwrks.dll!StrongNameErrorInfo+0x34815
13 mscorwrks.dll!CreateApplicationContext+0xbc35
14 KERNEL32.dll!GetModuleHandleA+0xdf
Process explorer says my program is using no CPU nor throwing any exceptions while it is hung.
