Visual Studio Freezing On Opening Project

Question

My Visual Studio seems to be freezing/lagging when I open a existing project. I have added NHibernate framework into my code and it seems to lag my computer (at least that\'s wh

Answer 1

You can see exactly what VS is doing at any given moment, if you attach a debugger to the devenv.exe process and hit Break when it hangs. Then load the symbols from Microsoft Symbols server and show the call stack for the VS main thread.

I wrote a very detailed article about how to debug crashes and hangs here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov/archive/2008/12/07/how-to-debug-crashes-and-hangs.aspx

From the call stack it should be obvious what is causing the delay.