Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 maxes out core

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional Update 2 on a Windows 7 virtual machine. I had been running VS 2012 with no problems, but I wanted to upgrade. Everythin

Answer 1

I have been struggling with the same issue for a couple of days on Visual Studio 2013 Update 4.

Disabling "Enable Browser Link" option in here:

Fixed the issue for me.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem here (25-30% CPU usage) and a message complaining about Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 not being installed (not sure why, it was supposed to be installed with Visual Studio).

After downloading and installing it separately, the CPU usage issue was solved.

Answer 3

I know this thread is getting a little old but just in case this helps someone else...
I also have this issue and I can definitely put it down to Web Essentials in my case. But, more specifically, Web Essentials once I open up a .less or .css file in the IDE.

I have restarted the IDE and the usage goes back to normal but again as soon as I open a css file the CPU starts to climb then the whole IDE becomes unusably slow. Closing all less/css files does seem to bring the CPU/IDE back to earth eventually.

My 2 workarounds so far:

1. Uninstall WE    :-(
2. Edit my .less and .css in Notepad++ and use the IDE for everything else

Neither is a particularly great solution!

This is with VS2013 Pro + Update 2 and the latest release build of WE. Next step is to see if VS update 3 RC + latest nightly build of WE has the same problem.

Edit: A thought has just occurred. I have only recently had to change from VS Premium to VS Pro and I don't recall the problem happening with the Premium version. I wonder if it is just the Pro version??