I run multiple instances of vs.net and don't reboot every week, In my case, I'm cycling through at least 10 instances a day. This bug report is actually interesting (to me).
I've killed so many devenv.exe in my career that there must be some kind of warrant on my name in Redmond.
I agree that vs.net is not really pertinent to the core 'hacker' audience here, but this bug report is actually relevant to me, and I didn't get it from my MS-oriented feeds.
I should read HN's FAQ, but aren't articles making it to the front page by being upvoted from new?
Entitled "XL97: Data Not Returned from Query Using ORACLE Data Source", one of the solutions reads:
Method 2: Move Your Mouse Pointer
If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel.
I'm sure some large bank has employed a data operator to do this at some point. It's a job I guess.
In case people think you were being sarcastic (and maybe you were), a large bank used to pay me $10/hour to push F11, F7, F7, F2 for the first 2-3 hours of each day.