After some severe frustration research, I was able to discover how to repro the crash in Visual Studio 2005 yesterday. It is actually quite simple to do. You need a new VB.NET project and two With statements, one nested within the other. That's it. Then you click on the second With object.

Here, I'll show you how!

Public Class Form1

    Public Shared Sub Main()

        Application.Run(New Form1)

    End Sub

    Public Sub New()

        ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.

        InitializeComponent()

        ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.

        Dim p As New Person()

        With p

            ' CRASHHERE: If you want to crash, take your mouse and

            ' click inside .StreetAddress.... BOOM!

            With .StreetAddress

                .Street = "123 BOOM"

            End With

        End With

    End Sub

    Public Class Person

        Private _streetAddress As New Address

        Public ReadOnly Property StreetAddress() As Address

            Get

                Return _streetAddress

            End Get

        End Property

    End Class

    Public Class Address

        Private _street As String

        Public Property Street() As String

            Get

                Return _street

            End Get

            Set(ByVal value As String)

                _street = value

            End Set

        End Property

    End Class

End Class

There, that was easy, huh? (In case you're not seeing it, look for the CRASHHERE note.)

Kids, don't try this at home.

Chances are, it will work for you anyway. I just checked with one of my co-workers and it works just fine for him. Great.