General Visual Studio IDE Issues

In the Visual Studio IDE, re-positioning the windows, for example after docking and undocking windows, can cause the IDE to crash. To resolve this issue download and apply the following patch from Microsoft: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB960075.
Do not use the Startup object in the Application properties page to set the main program. The startup object must be the first static method in a class specified using the ILMAIN directive.
If you use an explorer mouse with navigation buttons, these will not function when editing COBOL source files in the Visual Studio editor. You can use the navigation buttons on the standard toolbar instead.
The IDE may crash if you create a C++ project that uses a Project Wizard.