Visual Studio hangs until I move the mouse

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Visual Studio hangs until I move the mouse

After the excruciating 90 minute Service Pack 1 install (longer than Visual Studio itself), I still have mouse-powered debugging. That is, Visual Studio hangs completely when I debug a project, until I move the mouse. While the mouse is in motion, the status bar at the bottom of the window shows the DLLs it's loading, but as soon as I stop moving the mouse it stops. If I set focus on a different window it finishes loading normally. Other developers on my team face this same problem, and we've all seen it in different projects. Has anyone found a fix for this

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Visual Studio hangs until I move the mouse

  • TomHL

    Yeah this is happening when we debug ASP.NET / VB web applications. We're using 3rd party Telerik controls, but no Visual Studio add-ins.

  • Barry Kwok

    I'm having the same problem. Using VS2007 latest (c#) and .net On mine it does the build then waits til you move the mouse to finish. Probably just a lot smaller project.

  • Michael Sabbag

    We've never seen this behavior in SP1 testing.

    It would appear that you are doing ASP.NET debugging (since you said you're waiting for IE to launch). Am I correct

    If not, please can you tell us what language you are using

    Also, do you have any 3rd party add-ins or packages installed

    - Visual Studio Platform Team



  • jwharris

    I'm using Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 (and all current updates). When I hit F5 to start debugging, it compiles normally, and the IDE switches into the debugging layout. It appears frozen, and if you move the mouse just a single pixel, it will show "Loading xxxx.dll." If you move the mouse again, it will load the next dll, etc. The workaround is to either keep the mouse moving around until IE launches, or take window focus away from Visual Studio completely, which works faster than moving the mouse, but is more tedious.

  • ggolub

    Sorry for the pain of the Service Pack Install. Which operating system are you running on I am familiar with a bug fix that went into SP1 where moving the mouse kept the debugger buttons greyed out, but I have not seen the issue you are describing yet. We will be investigating.

    Thanks,
    Dave Lubash - Visual Studio Team Developer
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