Latest update to Visual Studio 2019 crashing a lot

[Mark_Wallace]

Perfect! Just what I was looking for!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Lost User]

I apply all updates. I keep an eye on memory. Mine runs comfy with at least 1.2 GB for one session. Unload / reload a "sticky" project.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

[John Torjo]

Depends what you're working on. For me, developing a UWP app, it's crashing every 1.5-2 hours at least (but it's not something new :D). One trick I use - every once in a while, when I end up with more than 30 open files, I close them all.

[Thornik]

What is "latest"? Exact version number. Mine is 16.4.5 and in very rare cases WPF designer crashes, taking VS to the hell. I wouldn't expect too much from VS team - they are mediocres hired for food. Developers at MS degraded for years, so be careful with every update. :)

[maze3]

rebind the save to the enter key, might save you some work

[johannesnestler]

Do you have older versions of VS installed in parallel? I sometimes had problems when I just updated VS 2019 and not VS2017 or VS2015 on dev. machines, mostly not with VS itself, but with installed extensions/plugins.

[Gary Wheeler]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I feel like I'm back in 1996, hitting Ctrl+S every 3 carriage returns

You mean you stopped doing it? I never took you for a silly man, Chris.

Software Zen: delete this;

[User 10828026]

Hehehehehe.....advanced help desk techniques. ;)

[Chris Maunder]

No - clean install. I'm blaming my DELL.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

Is my mouse meant to rattle like that?

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

"Latest" meaning "The version that isn't nagging me to upgrade". In this case 16.4.5. We're all production line monkeys at some point or another. Thinking we're artists is not something a typical employer wants to hear ;)

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

Yeah - closing open docs certainly speeds things up.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Mark_Wallace]

Was it made in Spain?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Andreas Mertens]

Sounds like my current contract 😱

[jsrjsr]

I am required to keep patches up-to-date on all of my tools, so I update within a few days of a new update becoming available. I've had no problems with VS2019 being unstable. Maybe it's an extension that you use that combines with the update to cause problems?

[Chris Maunder]

That's what I'm thinking. I used to use GhostDoc religiously but it progressively became more bloated, unstable and froze up VS, so that's gone. I'm suspecting one of the other (very few) add ins I use are the issue. It's a real shame that software, like cars, always seems to get bigger and bulkier, and rarely smaller, faster and more efficient.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Member 13948806]

I know this is controversial.. But what does eventlog say? Or, what about any related log files created inside your vs directory?

[Chris Maunder]

- Null ref at NuGet.SolutionRestoreManager - System.ArgumentException: The collections refer to different snapshots.at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection.OverlapsWith (x 100) I got bored after that.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Member 13948806]

Well first line gives away Have you tried cleaning up your NuGet packages, and then check if all works? If then, then try add one by one, while do the check, to see what's really causing it.

[Brady Kelly]

I have found no issues with the latest VS2019 update. It is very stable except for not always opening the last project worked on at startup.

"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley