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Visual Studio Debugger Freezing for specific solution


I'm running in to an issue where my solution freezes when debugging. If I place a breakpoint at the beginning of the solution, it wont freeze and will allow me to either continue or step through just fine. With this solution however, I need it to start from a specific point in the code. When I try to start it from that specific point, it'll freeze, and the output and locals box will have a popup in each saying "Busy..". It did not have this issue a few days ago, but just started yesterday.

It only occurs to this specific solution (I can debug other solutions just fine). Using C#/.NET mostly.

Remedies I've tried: Clean/Rebuild, repair on installer, uninstall just app, uninstall app and associated files, running Release, code cleanup, upgrading/downgrading vos, placing breakpoint at beginning then jumping to next breakpoint at specified point, removing antivirus software temporarily

Running latest version of Visual Studios 19 Community at the moment.


Solution

  • I didn't find the solution necessarily, but deemed it to be an issue with the "Locals" box that displays all your local variables and values. If I close out of this, I can continue with debugging. From further research, it seems that tool has been known to be pretty buggy.