The problem turns out to be a bug in Visual Studio .NET which Microsoft is
in the process of resolving. The problem was actually cause by a stack
overflow. There is currently not a way to increase the stack size in VB.Net
but that I think that is what Microsoft is working on.

David

"Alex Krawarik[MSFT]" <alexkr@m...> wrote in message
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> There definitely is no maximum number of nodes for the document that you
are
> hitting in this scenario....10,000 nodes is not alot of nodes for some
types
> of data.
>
> When you say the program crashes, what do you mean exactly? Can you
> reproduce it with a debugger attached?
>
> "David Webb" <strangecargo> wrote in message
> news:%23rkPVoq$GHA.4604@T......
> >I have a VB.Net application that is trying to organize a very large xml
> >file
> > that contains 52,000 nodes. The process starts by creating an XML
document
> > that has a root node and 52k child nodes. The code then organizes the
> > nodes
> > based upon data from a database table. The process works fine up until
it
> > reaches the 9336th node at which time the XML Document object no longer
> > has
> > any properties and the program crashes.
> >
> > Is there a maximum number of nodes for an XML Document or is there
another
> > problem?
> >
> > David
> >
> >
>
>