I have a web application and whenever I load it in VS 2010 RTM, the left hand corner of VS says "updating JScript intellisense" which never completes. When I click anywhere in the editor (becuase the solution has finished loading), I see a balloon on the right hand corner saying Visual studio is performing an internal operation...) and ultimately I have to end the VS process. Very frustrating..
I went ahead and disabled JScript intellisense as described here and that didn't help.
Anybody has any clue in this?
Pin open your Output window to get specific information on what Visual Studio is doing. Chances are it is parsing js file links in your webpage, including master page and trying to download these files over the network or encountering an error trying make intellisense of them all. Try commenting out your javascript links, using local copies instead of remote, or attempt to resolve the specific errors. More info here.
I restarted my machine and It resolved the problem. :-(
Maybe I'm late answering this question, but I found a way to disable JScript Intellisense. Following this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecfczya1.aspx , in the "Text Editor" options, select JScript. In the "General" options, deselect the checkboxes saying "Auto list members" and "Parameter Information". It worked fine for me.
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When i try to access my solution Properties, i get the following error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I am using VS 2012. What could be the cause of this?
Some extensions may cause this.
Try disabling extensions and restarting Visual Studio.
Quite often error will be gone even if you re-enable extensions after this.
There's a bug report on Microsoft Connect (link).
It is marked there as "Closed as External", but it seems that it may occur randomly with any extension, so would be worth voting it there to bring it to Microsofts attention.
In my case, the problem was solution-specific. NuGet was causing this error, but not the extension itself but a NuGet package that generated an error on VS load. When I opened NuGet Package Manager Console I saw a big red text with a description of the error. In my case it was T4Scaffolding.Core package, which in turn is a dependency of MVCMailer.
If this is your case, you will probably see what package generates an error in PM Console.
I faced this dialog too and i'm not sure what exactly causes this as i couldn't even open the NuGet console to see detailed error messages.
Closing Visual Studio, deleting %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio and restarting Visual Studio worked for me as it causes a reset of various things like window configurations.
I think if this dialog is displayed some files may be corrupt in %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio and by deleting that folder Visual Studio can start normally again.
Update:
The issue arises on my machine when i start Visual Studio by using "run as administator" whereas Visual Studio has been started before without that option and %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio had been created without the administator association.
Visual Studio 2013: I had this issue when I tried opening TOOLS -> Extensions and Updates.
I used #ViRuSTriNiTy idea, but only cleaned the files from:
C:\Users[myUserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions
There are 2 cache files over there.
Deleted them and restarted VS2013 and it was fixed
The way it was happening for me might be unique to me/my setup, but I'd love to know if anyone else has this happen, and if they find out why:
If I launch an .sln file by double-clicking it, it will load VS and I can right-click the Solution and get Properties to come up no problem.
If I go to "Open Project" on the Visual Studio welcome page or from File > Open > Project/Solution, navigate to the .sln file and launch it by selecting it and clicking "Open" in the File dialog, that's when I have this issue.
I'm going to just always launch the .sln file from now on, but I'd love to know why this happens when using "Open Project" from the welcome page or from File > Open > Project/Solution! I tried going into Tools > NuGet Package Manager > General and I unchecked the options for allowing NuGet to download missing packages and Skip applying binding redirects, and under Package Sources I de-selected the checkboxes (my dev machine does not connect to the internet). Environment > Extensions and Updates: I tried it with and without "Load per user extensions when running as administrator" and running it as an Admin and without running as Admin. Also tried just deleting everything at C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio. No change from those 2 bullets above.
VS2008 express web developer keeps hanging whenever I try to go to design mode. this just started a couple days ago for some reason, was fine before.
whenever i click design mode, the whole thing freezes, any clicks anywhere on the program give me a 'ding' sound until i end task in task manager.
usually there's no error to see, though sometimes i'll see some error in the status update about jquery intellisense problems loading, the thing is that this happens even on a brand new project and default.aspx with no jquery attached.
any ideas? this is very frustrating, i can no longer work.
multiple uninstalls and fresh installs have done nothing to help.
VS gets hang many times when we click on its design page (aspx) and it dies.
This issue can be solved by following these steps –
1. Go to control Panel
2. Add or Remove programs
3. Find Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component.
4. Click on change and then click Repair.
5. Restart your system and hopefully your problem will get solved.
It might be the ToolBox refreshing itself. Try this tip:
http://weblogs.asp.net/stevewellens/archive/2009/07/23/speed-up-the-visual-studio-toolbox.aspx
There is a good resolution on MSDN blog. Follow the link below:
Troubleshooting "Visual Studio 2008 Design view hangs" issues
This link fixed my hang problem:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/amol/2009/07/23/visual-studio-2008-hangs-on-switching-to-design-view/
Run regedit.exe and look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\ProductVersion key. If key is missing, add it and set “LastProduct” value to 12.0.4518.1066. Restart the machine after this step.
Also, you can try repair "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component" in programs and features.
My Visual Studio 2010 Professional hangs up 99.999% of the time when I try to open a website as "Remote Site" through an HTTP address. However if i open the site through a unc path instead of through HTTP, it works fine. Of course that is not always feasible, for example when working from offsite. The same sites (assuming they are not NET40 sites) work fine in Visual Studio 2008, so I'm pretty sure it is not a problem with the Front Page Server Extensions.
If i run 2010 in /safe mode, it opens the projects fine. So i figured maybe it was one of my installed extensions. I therefore disabled all my extensions and tried again, but it still hangs up. So it is apparently something in Visual Studio itself that is different between safe and normal modes.
I ran it in logging mode, and checked the log but did not see anything that stuck out to me. The log is uploaded here: http://pastebin.com/aUnVanB1 .
The exact symptoms I am seeing are that when i click on the project name, it pops up and asks me for my credentials. I enter those, and click OK, and it then loads the solution explorer, and i see the tree view, but then it just hangs with the progress dialog that says "Preparing Solution...". The progress bar keeps cycling, but it never finishes loading, and the spot where the properties window would be in the VS UI is completely unpainted, with just a blank, empty, white space.
Any one have any clue what else i could do to try to figure out why 2010 hangs when attempting to load websites via HTTP? Thanks!
Thanks for your question... you gave me the right clue to solve my problem!
My VS 2010 was hanging (in fact was very slow to get available) when I was openening a solution containing a remote website and I was due to press Escape a few times to cancel the pending operation... As you suggest I tried to open such a solution with /safeMode and VS2010 became available quite instantly.
So as you pointed the VS Extensions... I checked mine (all from Telerik): opening the extension manager I discovered that some updates where available. I thought the extensions updates were automatically proposed and so never checked that before. In fact, you need to manually check with the extension manager if some are available.
I've updated all my Telerik extensions... and now I may open normally all solutions including a remote website.
Thanks a lot! Perhaps... you need to updates your extensions???
Check you network order preference in Windows.
I had a similar problem where DNS would cause a hang of 1 minute before trying again (and again and finally on the next network).
Under Network, Advanced Settings (WinXP):
I am having an issue with my context menu in Visual Studio 2010 that is driving me nuts. I think it started when I installed the Code Snippet Designer Extent ion but I am not 100% sure about that. I didn't notice it until after I uninstalled that extension with a few others.
I have tried reinstalling and then uninstalling the extension again but that didn't work either. I am left with these extensions on my machine DevExpress Tools, Dpack, PowerCommands for VS, Productivity Power Tools and the VS10x Code Marker.
I have another system that has all the same extensions installed but doesn't have the context menu problem and I never loaded the Snippet Designer on that machine, which is why I think the problem was caused by something in that particular extension.
Here is what it looks like.
http://www.mydatafish.com/contextmenu.png I tried to post a picture but I need more points to do so and it is hard to explain without a picture so please take a look at the link.
Anybody have any ideas of how I can remove these phantom mene items? By the way I did try resetting the context mene through the the customize menu item in the Tools menu.
OK I am not sure how it got in the condition that it was but I found the program that was causing the problem. It was something called "Code Helper" and it was an add it that I used with VS 2005. It was listed as a AddIn for Visual Studio 2010 but wasn't inside the Addin directory for 2010.
To get rid of the problem I removed the program from the Programs and Features (Add/Remove).
This has been driving me crazy for months. I have a multiple projects that compile without errors. If I start copying and pasting controls (or even just plain 'p' tags) the designer will fail 1/2 the time with the error "the method or operation is not implemented". The complexity of the page doesn't matter. The 'solution' is to delete the designer file, exit visual studio, open visual studio and convert the offending aspx file to a 'web application' to regenerate the designer file.
This is a really annoying. I can't find any fixes on Google. Is there a way to disable the automatic designer file? Make it so it only generates on a 'build' command and not fail everytime I'm laying out a aspx page?
Thanks
To find the fix for the issue you would need to find the cause of the issue. It might be possible to get more information on what is causing the issue if you attach a debugger to Visual Studio. This could be done by following these steps:
Open two instances of visual studio (run as administrator)
In one, open your project and get to a point right before the issue occurs
Attach the other instance of Visual Studio to the one with your project (Tools -> Attach to Process)
Perform the steps to reproduce the issue.
Note that to actually catch the exception you will need to change a few debugging options. First you would need to make sure that the Just My Code check box is unchecked in the General debugging options in Visual Studio. The second is on the exceptions dialog you will need to catch thrown exceptions. The exception dialog is under the Debug menu in Visual Studio.