Designer Always Crashes

[Steven]

I'm porting over allot of Microsoft SSRS Reports to Telerik Reports and binding to DataObjects rather then EntityObjects and the Designer seems to always crash whenever I open the Expression Editor.

I assume it when It's trying to calculated the Fields.

Is this a known issue with the DataObjects or does this also happen with the EntityObjects or even a SQLDataSource.  The data I'm using is messy and flattened for SSRS but this is becoming a major pain and frustration for us.

[Steve]

Hi Steven,

This is not a known issue and the information you have provided did not help in reproducing the problem in our local tests. Therefore we will appreciate if you can provide us with detailed information about the issue: Visual Studio version (updates and RC or RTM, Professional, Ultimate, etc), exact steps to reproduce, logs from Visual Studio - see TroubleShooting Visual Studio problems.

Additionally have you tried this on more than one machine to verify this isn't a local problem?

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Steven]

We have 5 developer working on different reports within the same project so perhaps there is something odd in the project tied to User Functions.

All developers are using VisualStudio 2012 Premimum except for myself which has Ultimate.



I will attempt to capture logs in the next few days if possible.

Thanks
Steve

[Steven]

I found out that Visual Studio is crashing from the Editor because it cannot load an assembly ??

I have the HtmlAgiliyPack referenced within my Reports project to cleanup some messy HTML so that it will work in the HtmlTextBox reporting control.  I have it installed through NuGet so its in a package directly with an absolute path.
Besides not being in the GAC shouldn't this error be caught and ignored?

I assume its looking for Static User Functions, but I'm not sure why its getting this error.

System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled
Message: Could not load file or assembly 'HtmlAgilityPack, Version=1.4.6.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bd319b19eaf3b43a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

FusionLog = 
=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = {removed}
LOG: DisplayName = HtmlAgilityPack, Version=1.4.6.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bd319b19eaf3b43a
 (Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
Calling assembly : (Unknown).
===
LOG: This bind starts in default load context.
LOG: Using application configuration file: C:\Users\{removed}
\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\devenv.exe.config
LOG: Using host configuration file: 
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config.
LOG: Post-policy reference: HtmlAgilityPack, Version=1.4.6.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bd319b19eaf3b43a
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PublicAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PublicAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TemplateProviders/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TemplateProviders/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Platform/Debugger/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Platform/Debugger/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/x86/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/x86/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PublicAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PublicAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TemplateProviders/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TemplateProviders/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Platform/Debugger/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Platform/Debugger/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/x86/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies/DataCollectors/x86/HtmlAgilityPack/HtmlAgilityPack.EXE.

[IvanY]

Hi Steven,

This is a known issue and we are currently working on it and you can rest assured that it will be fixed for the Q1 2013 version in February. For the time being you can create your expressions using the inline editor in the designer or by pasting them directly in the property grid.

We apologize for the temporary inconvenience.

Greetings,
IvanY
the Telerik team