Visual Studio 2013 hangs when opening a solution

Question

I installed VS2013 (v12.0.21005.1) and added ReSharper 8 (v8.0.2000.2660) a day or two ago. That day it was fine. Now I\'m lucky if I can get it to open one solution in a wh

Answer 1

Suspending Resharper Worked for me. Goto

Tools -> Options -> ReSharper -> General -> Suspend Now

Now your solution will load very fast. After your solution fully loaded, you can change the Resharper settings to Resume Now.

Answer 2

I have fixed the issue by uninstalling these two plugins:

1. Productivity Power Tool
2. Web Essentials

Answer 3

Deleting all ".suo" files worked for me. There were several copies due to opening the solution in multiple versions of Visual Studio.

Edit:

Possible path could be:

PathToSolution\.vs\ProjectName\v14\

.vs may be a hidden folder.

.suo is filename.

Answer 4

I've had this issue multiple times, in pretty much all versions of VS. The one solution that seems to work most of the times is to delete the .vs folder located in the solution folder. Sometimes it's enough to delete the .sou file located in .vs///

The folder is hidden by the way, so you will have to enable "Show hidden files and folders"

Answer 5

In my case, VS 2013 Professional was hanging on every startup, even without opening a solution because the license was no longer valid.

Last item in the log file:

<entry>
    <record>367</record>
    <time>2015/07/13 20:11:05.051</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>UserConnection</source>
    <description>myemailaddrs@gmail.com signed in for IDE user</description>
</entry>

And on the msdn.microsoft.com subscription page: "Your subscription is no longer active, contact your administrator."

I had to get an updated subscription from my employer.

Answer 6

VS2012 hangs on me e.g. when opening a csproj file on a network share (in fact on a share that was on the VirtualBox host, connected as a smb share using a VirtualBox feature).

Copying the project over to a local drive fixed it for me. Not sure if assigning a drive letter would do the trick.

Also not sure why it does not work via network share, if it is a VS limitation or perhaps some plugin (I use resharper, of course).