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

My local files somehow became corrupted for one project, fortunately I didn't have any pending changes so rather than run chkdsk I just deleted the folder and checked out the solution from source control again.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Uninstall any MS Enterprise Framework addin's you may have.

Delete the VS temp directory (and the Windows one).

Do you use TFS? Perhaps the server is a bit sleepy, that will make it freeze for a few minutes, but is ok afterwards.

Answer 4

For me, a chkdsk /F /R (which will prompt you to restart) and about 30 minutes of company time fixed this issue.

I think a few improperly closed instances of Visual Studio may have attributed to the issue.