Add secured web reference keeps crashing visual studio 2019

[jay2019]

I need to add a web reference (not service reference) from a secured URL that is using .p12 certificate (WSDL). Visual studio community edition 2019 4.08.3752 (the latest version i belive as at now)

Everytime i added the web reference my visual studio crashes. Below is the message log. Can someone please assist? Thanks.


Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsAddWebReferenceDlg2.AddWebReferenceDlg(Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IDiscoverySession, System.String ByRef, System.String ByRef, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IDiscoveryResult ByRef, Int32 ByRef)


Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 16.4.29519.181, time stamp: 0x5dd4c41f
Faulting module name: msxml6.dll, version: 6.30.18362.418, time stamp: 0xc78e5f2f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0011d081
Faulting process id: 0x52d8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d5ae23c5b6b012
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\msxml6.dll
Report Id: e9077535-1bc7-4f39-8eec-8bce892ef772
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

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