VS 2010 IDE crashes using this class

[Blupig]

This class, along with a few others prominent in my projects, crashes the VS IDE:

Public Class IO
Public Shared Function OpenString(ByVal FilePath As String) As String
        Try
            Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(FilePath)
            Dim ret As String = objReader.ReadToEnd
            objReader.Close()
            Return ret
        Catch ex As Exception
            Return Nothing
        End Try
    End Function

    Public Shared Sub SaveString(ByVal FilePath As String, ByVal SourceString As String)
        On Error Resume Next
        FileIO.FileSystem.WriteAllText(FilePath, SourceString, False)
    End Sub

    Public Shared Function FolderExists(ByVal FolderPath As String) As Boolean

        Dim f As New System.IO.DirectoryInfo(FolderPath)
        Return f.Exists

    End Function

    Public Shared Sub LoadList(ByRef ListObject As Object, ByVal FilePath As String)
        Dim r As System.IO.StreamReader
        r = New System.IO.StreamReader(FilePath)
        While (r.Peek() > -1)
            ListObject.Items.Add(r.ReadLine)
        End While
        r.Close()

    End Sub

    Public Shared Sub SaveList(ByVal ListObject As Object, ByVal FilePath As String)

        Dim w As System.IO.StreamWriter
        Dim i As Integer
        w = New System.IO.StreamWriter(FilePath)
        For i = 0 To ListObject.Items.Count - 1
            w.WriteLine(ListObject.Items.Item(i))
        Next
        w.Close()

    End Sub

    Public Shared Sub ListFiles(ByRef L As Object, ByVal folderpath As String, Optional ByVal extension As String = "*.dll")

        Try
            Dim DirInfo As New DirectoryInfo(folderpath)
            Dim FileInfoArray() As FileInfo = DirInfo.GetFiles(extension)
            Dim FileInfo As FileInfo

            Dim FileCount As Integer = 0
            For Each FileInfo In FileInfoArray
                FileCount = FileCount + 1
                L.Items.Add(FileInfo.Name)

            Next
        Catch ex As Exception
            ErrMsg()
        End Try

    End Sub

End Class

What the hell is wrong? I've tried just about everything from compatibility mode to admin to a couple registry edits...I've even reinstalled and am seriously considering a reformat. It does the same on my friend's VS. Apparently it's LoadList that does it in this particular class, but as I said before, a couple of my modules/classes in various other projects also pose the same issue, even without LoadList.

Sorry if this is the wrong section.

[techgnome]

It's your class name... at least that's the first thing that jumped out at me. It maybe conflicting with the built-in IO namespace that's already part of the .NET Framework.

-tg

[Blupig]

It's your class name... at least that's the first thing that jumped out at me. It maybe conflicting with the built-in IO namespace that's already part of the .NET Framework.

-tg

A friend and I have actually resolved it, it's a pretty big bug in the IDE. Sometimes (note: not always) when trying to view a class with a direct-object as an argument in a method, the IDE crashes. So, in this specific class, I had to change the Object argument in the LoadList method to an IList object.

Thanks for replying, though

[techgnome]

"Sometimes (note: not always) when trying to view a class with a direct-object as an argument in a method, the IDE crashes." -- uuuuh... WHAT? I didn't follow... what do you mean "direct object"...

-tg

[techgnome]

FYI - I copied your code.... changing only two lines, I got it to compile just fine... so I'm not sure what you're doing that's causing the crash.

-tg

[Nightwalker83]

FYI - I copied your code.... changing only two lines, I got it to compile just fine... so I'm not sure what you're doing that's causing the crash.

-tg

Maybe you should tell us which two lines you changed in the original code?

[techgnome]

I imported the IO namespace... and commented out the call to the ErrMsg() function as it wasn't in the code. That's it.

Now, I said it compiled... didn't actually make any calls to it... since I'm not sure how it was being called or used...

-tg