This does not seem to be unique to SSMS 17 as I also tried installing SSMS 16 as well and no luck. I've also tried reinstalling SSMS 17 twice. Basically whenever I start SSMS, within 5 seconds of starting Management Studio it crashes without any error pop ups or anything. Upon inspecting my event viewer I have two errors that I believe are related:
.NET Runtime Error:
Application: Ssms.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.TypeLoadException
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.SqmUploader.SqmUploaderClient..ctor(Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.VsHub.IVsHubService, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsShell, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.IRegistryTools, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.Sqm.ISqmSettingsProvider)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.VSTelemetryPackage+<<CreateSqmUploader>b__11_1>d.MoveNext()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__6_0(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeInSecurityContext(System.Object)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
Application Error:
Faulting application name: Ssms.exe, version: 2017.140.17119.0, time stamp: 0x591bcf8aFaulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.15063.296, time stamp: 0x28e9cf15
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000eb802
Faulting process ID: 0xf4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d2f4c574fd2829
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Ssms.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report ID: c95bca91-dbf6-4e5f-aeac-b15cb7e73f20
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: