Visual Studio freezing (crashing) while loading solution

krypru picture krypru · Sep 26, 2016 · Viewed 24.7k times · Source

I've met with a strange problem. I had 7 projects in the solution. I had to add another MVC project. Now when the document (from the new project) is opened (for example HomeController.cs) and when this project is initializing at the start, it freezes the whole IDE like this:

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(Some projects do not load)

After that, I have to kill the process. When I open VS again and fast click on another project (which is initializing) the freezing issue is gone. I have no idea what can cause a problem like this. I've tried with and without ReSharper but I get the same result. Also, I restored default settings of VS. Also repaired whole VS.

Maybe someone had the same problem and could give some helpful advice?

Answer

Artiom picture Artiom · Sep 26, 2016

Usually removing of the hidden .vs folder in solution directory fixes the problem.