I've been having an intermittent show-stopping problem with the XE8 IDE ever since I first installed it. Every few times I click the File | Open button, there is a brief pause, then the entire IDE shuts down and vanishes. There's no warning, no OS error message and nothing is recorded in the Windows event log (this is on a system upgraded from Win7 to Win10Pro 64-bit since I installed XE8, btw). Sometimes this happens when the only action I take in the IDE is to click File | Open straight after restarting the IDE from a previous occurrence.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting this q is that I seem to have discovered a v. simple sequence of steps which reproducibly provokes the problem, as follows:
Start the XE8 IDE (I'll refer to this instance as A).
In A, go to
Run | Load Processand load and run a second instance of BDS.EXE, which I'll call B.In B, re-open the last project I was working on. Once it's open, do a
File | Close All.In B, click
File | Open
And that's it. B shuts down and disappears, and there's no sign of it when I return to A. This happens whether or not I start B with the /NOCASTALIA switch.
The reason I tried this out in the first place was that I was hoping that the Delphi debugger would be able to catch whatever exception I imagined was causing B's shutdown and thereby throw some light on what is happening.
So what I'm asking is whether anyone can suggest any simple measures so that A can catch whatever happens in B to cause it to vanish? I've tried viewing the CPU in A while B is running, but the entire CPU debugging window sub-menu is greyed out. I've also looked at A's debugger event log, and that shows a couple of "file in use" exceptions as B starts up (obviously they are in use by the A instance), but nothing subsequently.
Update: By a rather laborious process of elimination, I've established that this behaviour is not being caused by any of the IDE's design-time packages. The problem still remains if I remove them all from the list, so that the Install packages pop-up is completely empty. I guess that only leaves the DLLs the IDE itself loads, like the Modelling and Refactoring ones.
Btw, I eliminated the Beyond Compare and CodeSite packages by removing them for the Registry Experts key.
