Visual D crashes when using Visual Studio 2008

[luxploit]

Wanted to try out Visual D in VS2008 (my main IDE). I installed, created a Windows Application and then when i went into winmain.d the text was sort of corrupted and it crashed right after. For sanity's sake I even tried it in a VM with a clean install of Vs2008 without any extras or Visual Assist. Any clue why this is happening?

Host Version: 1.4.0-beta2
VM Version: 1.3.1

[rainers]

AFAICT VS2008 hasn't been tested in a while. Are you running on Win7 or earlier, too? 32 or 64 bit OS?

Maybe some (background) colors are not working, you might be able to tweak them in Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors, names "Visual D - ...".

Regarding crashes: do you have a crash dump? Might be written to %LocalAppData%\CrashDumps.

[luxploit]

I'm running Windows 11 22H2 and my VM was running Windows 10 2004, both 64-bit. I'll upload the crash dumps later today if it generated any. I tried VS2010 and 2013 and those work perfectly on both host and VM, so it's specifically only 2008 that's crashing Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[luxploit]

devenv.exe.46640.dmp
this is the crash dump that was written by VS at %LocalAppData%\CrashDumps

[rainers]

The crash dump shows a heap corruption while populating the navigation bar at the top of the editor.
Maybe it helps to just disable that in Tools->Options->Text Editor->D->General before loading any D source file.