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"Microsoft Visual Studio is waiting on an internal operation to complete"

I get the Microsoft VS Delay Notification pop up consistently when I am trying to attach the debugger to a remote process (Native only, with no authentication). The process runs as a service on the remote machine, but Visual Studio (2005) seems to have no problem with that when it's running as a service locally.

I've loaded the symbols correctly (as in specified the right directory under Tools\Options\Debugging\Symbols), but this doesn't seem to help.

I've tried starting VS 2005 in Safe Mode, but that doesn't seem to make a difference either.

Solution

  • I had the same issue and used ProcMon util to look at waht my devenv were doing. In my case it was waiting for loading symbols. So you you should check your Env. variable _NT_SYMBOL_PATH and if there is cached symbols if no - all this time your VS is waiting for downloading it.