IDE hanging. Is it really??

[Ian Branch 130]

Hi Team,

D12.2 P2.

I have seen several comments about the IDE hanging.

Are they really sure it has?

My experience is that it appears to be hung and non-responsive but if I look in the Task Manager I can still see it doing something.  No idea what.

Sometimes it takes literally minutes, very frustrating minutes, and time wasting, but it eventually returns.

I experience it most often when switching from Code to Design and vise-versa on my larger projects but from time-to-time on smaller projects as well.

Just my experience

 

Regards,

Ian

[Anders Melander 1820]

2 hours ago, Ian Branch said:

My experience is that it appears to be hung and non-responsive but if I look in the Task Manager I can still see it doing something.  No idea what.

Use process explorer instead and look at the threads. It will show you the call stack which might get you some hint about what it's doing.

 

9 out of 10 times when the IDE hangs for me it's caused by the Structure View when the form editor is active (see above) - and the IDE never recovers. Specifically it appears to be a problem with the VirtualTreeView used by the Structure View.

[Ian Branch 130]

Hi Anders,

Interesting.  I will have a look next time.  Won't be long. 😞

I have never actually had it not recover, although it has tken close to 10 minutes sometimes.