Can someone explain to me what happen to that magnificent IDE we had for
years before VS 2005 comes up?

Don't get me wrong the IDE is still superbe and there are plenty of new
features that can save hours in development. But I never experimented as many
crashes in an IDE for years... (last time was with VB5-6 that's like ages
ago) Even on a clean install I can crash the IDE simply by using the profile
feature (try creating a profile from code and from .config file in the same
project)

For some reason I lost the Build Style window. I can see it come on top for
like a tenth of a second but it disapears after... (again you can crash the
IDE if you simply continue to try to make that window appear...)

There are a myriad of other times I simply lost the IDE while coding or
debugging... no crash dump, nothing, just back to desktop... Add to that,
that each time you have any of these errors you need to run the analyse tool
on you sourcesafe db and you're in for some productivity lost.

So what's up with the IDE? Am I  the only one that has that kind of
problems? I don't really keep an exact count of how many time I had to
restart but it's obvious that this version is way more unstable than the
previous ones. Even the betas of previous versions were more stable.

Hope these issues won't translate in weaker applications!