VS2008 freezing
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Hmmm, I've seen the same thing. Funny thing is that it happened a few times, each time when I did what I thought was an errant keypress (I always type faster than my brain works - and my brain is slow). After that, VS was frozen solid - I mean Ice Age. I can't remember what I did to recover - either closed it via Task Manager or rebooted. Something tells me that I rebooted but I really can't remember.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Anyone seen this ?
Only when debugging. Queer thing is, VS will occasionally throw up the crash reporting dialog without actually closing. Things generally go downhill pretty fast from there.
Yeah, it's all very odd. You'd think they'd make the core product stable before trying to add to it. I guess 'it works now' isn't much of a sales slogan.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Complete freezing I haven't had that (yet) but slow working I have. Also for some strange reason the toolbar buttons and menu sometimes stop working, I can type code, can use the shortcuts but when I click a toolbar button nothing happens, even the mouse over effect doesn't work then. So on average I have to restart VS every 2 hours or so.
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Complete freezing I haven't had that (yet) but slow working I have. Also for some strange reason the toolbar buttons and menu sometimes stop working, I can type code, can use the shortcuts but when I click a toolbar button nothing happens, even the mouse over effect doesn't work then. So on average I have to restart VS every 2 hours or so.
:~ I only have to restart once or twice a day, and that's usually my fault, e.g. I need to delete a file in use by VS or something like that.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I would really like if somehow we could ban Microsoft from releasing any new functionality or features in VS2010, and just tell them to make the friggin' thing work for once. 2005 was very buggy. 2008 is a little less so, in my experience, but they're both still shamefully slow and unstable. Has anybody here tried to write workflows using the vs2008 WF designer? It's like John McCain playing basketball. Slow, cranky, and at any minute you expect it's gonna keel over and die. Seriously, I would pay full whack for 2010 if it worked like vs2008 was supposed to, with no extra features, no questions asked.
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:~ I only have to restart once or twice a day, and that's usually my fault, e.g. I need to delete a file in use by VS or something like that.
Well if I'm lucky and VS is in a good mode I can go without restarting a whole day but those are very rare days.
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Yeah, it's all very odd. You'd think they'd make the core product stable before trying to add to it. I guess 'it works now' isn't much of a sales slogan.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
You'd think they'd make the core product stable before trying to add to it.
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Complete freezing I haven't had that (yet) but slow working I have. Also for some strange reason the toolbar buttons and menu sometimes stop working, I can type code, can use the shortcuts but when I click a toolbar button nothing happens, even the mouse over effect doesn't work then. So on average I have to restart VS every 2 hours or so.
Tom Deketelaere wrote:
Complete freezing I haven't had that (yet) but slow working I have
This is a well known problem with the Yoda edition of all MS products.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Wish they'd sort explorer out first. Mine's always freezing, usually when attempting to browse network shares.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
It's updating it intellistupidity. I see it frequently, most often when editing declarations in an h file. each keystroke there seems likely to set off a search for idiocy which utterly monopolizes the IDE.
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So, my VS 2008 keeps freezing. It's responsive in the task manager, and I can kill it from there without killing the process, but, clicking on it does nothing, it acts as if it is frozen. Anyone seen this ? And why is it that MS still have no idea how to write multithreaded code, or an IDE that works ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
It's most likely an issue with the source control plugins, CG. A source control plugin free VS 2008 has never crashed for me. Right now I have 3 installed and it freezes up and crashes at least 3-4 times a day.
Regards, Nish
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It's most likely an issue with the source control plugins, CG. A source control plugin free VS 2008 has never crashed for me. Right now I have 3 installed and it freezes up and crashes at least 3-4 times a day.
Regards, Nish
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Yeah, it's all very odd. You'd think they'd make the core product stable before trying to add to it. I guess 'it works now' isn't much of a sales slogan.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
You'd think they'd make the core product stable before trying to add to it. I guess 'it works now' isn't much of a sales slogan.
Maybe if you weren't thinking about who was making that core product. :)
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