OutOfMemory exceptions are often caused by address space fragmentation in Visual Studio process. For users experiencing excessive OutOfMemory exceptions we provide a tool which overrides Visual Studio's memory allocation policy to ensure more continuous address space for Common Language Runtime.
To use the tool download wrappers.zip file, unpack it and run devenv2005_wrap and devenv2008_wrap instead of devenv.exe for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 correspondingly.
In some cases Visual Studio fails to start under wrappers. Check AppInit_DLLs. Rogue DLLs activated from there can interfere with wrappers. Example: wxvault.dll preinstalled with Dell laptops.
Sometimes wrappers won't help (because it's simply not enough memory), see http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx for other solutions and explanations.
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