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christian
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - Aug 24 2012 : 04:59:44 AM
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I have a solution with around 1000 projects. Visual Studio does take a while to load it, but it's all asynchronous and I get to work pretty quickly. However, with Visual Assist installed I sometimes get a message box with header "Visual Assist X" and message "Reading solution projects..." which sits there for 5-10 minutes. It's in the foreground, blocking everything..
I assume this is where Visual Assist is loading information about all the files in the solution, but I don't understand why it would be so incredibly slow or why it needs to be in the foreground. Is there a work around for this or some known way to improve it? |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Aug 24 2012 : 11:31:48 AM
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How many files do you have in your solution?
Once the solution is properly loaded, please open VA's Open File in Solution dialog (Alt-Shift-O) the title bar contains two numbers. The first number is the number of files currently listed, which changes as you filter the list. The second number is the total number of files in the list, which is normally the number of files in your solution. What is this second number?
I don't recall anyone reporting 1000 projects before, I have seen over 100, but that is fairly rare. |
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sean
Whole Tomato Software
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2012 : 11:58:15 AM
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christian
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - Aug 24 2012 : 1:29:32 PM
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There's about 17000 files in the solution (as per the VAX open file dialog).
Since my post I have installed and moved my code and build files over to a faster disk, and not seen the incredibly long pause (although it still pauses for some time). However, I'm not sure if it's a first load only problem.
I've also received an email from Sean with some unreleased improvements to test. I will be away from work for a week, but will endeavour to test this all more thoroughly when I return.
Thanks for your help. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Aug 24 2012 : 3:05:31 PM
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For the record, I have just loaded a solution with 25,000 files in VS2012, and I am not seeing any such message box here. The solution only has 2 projects though, so the number of projects, rather than the number of files may be the factor.
Hopefully Sean's suggestions will fix this for you. |
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fun4jimmy
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 26 2013 : 04:43:12 AM
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I have a couple of solutions with 400-500 projects and I get the same problem. There is a blocking dialog popped up by visual assist that says "Reading solution projects..." which makes visual studio unusable for 5 minutes or more.
Is there any plan to make this work happen on a background thread and only block if visual assist is invoked? I think I'm going to have to disable visual assist otherwise. |
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sean
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Apr 26 2013 : 12:19:55 PM
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We've moved as much as we can to a background thread. When that blocking dialog appears, the work that is being done is only supported by Visual Studio on the UI thread (interrogating solution for list of projects and the files in them). All parsing happens on background threads.
That said, we'd be interested in getting a va.log of the the load to see if there are any other issues slowing down the load. Please capture a log ( http://docs.wholetomato.com?W305 ) of the solution load and send it in using the contact form at http://www.wholetomato.com/support/contact.asp and reference TOPIC_ID=10892. Make sure to enable logging before opening the solution (use File | Close Solution then File | Recent Projects and Solutions if necessary).
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sean
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Apr 30 2013 : 8:59:24 PM
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MrDoomMaster
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Jul 29 2013 : 5:11:34 PM
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sean
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Jul 29 2013 : 10:14:45 PM
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| In build 1946, we added a checkbox to the VA Options dialog on the Projects | File Handling page for the slowdown that fun4jimmy was experiencing. Uncheck "Enumerate project references thoroughly" and see if that has any effect on the annoyance that you are experiencing when loading large solutions (if they consist solely of native projects - see tooltip on the setting). |
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Alex.Bof
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Posted - Apr 23 2014 : 06:09:26 AM
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The same for me. Need to wait minimum 10 minutes upon any change to the project file (which is quite often).
Number of projects = 48, number of files = 4831.
Disabling "Enumerate project references thoroughly" didn't help.
No problems with the ReSharper which is installed in parallel to Visual Assist, even though 90% of projects are C#.
VA_X.dll file version 10.8.2029.0 built 2014.02.24.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 23 2014 : 11:42:26 AM
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Apologies for the problem, VA should never be this slow on a solution of this size. Are you seeing this problem every time you load the solution, or just occasionally?
Is your solution on your local machine, or is it being opened from some form of network or mapped drive?
If you are seeing this problem every time you open the solution, can you please try disabling ReSharper in the IDE extension manager and restarting the IDE. Does this make any difference? I am wondering if both VA and ReSharper parsing the solution at the same time might be a factor. |
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Alex.Bof
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Posted - Apr 24 2014 : 03:09:30 AM
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It happens only when I unload/reload a project.
Disabling/enabling of "Enumerate project references thoroughly" doesn't have any effect as well as suspending/resuming of resharper. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 28 2014 : 12:59:06 PM
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Strange, I am not sure what is causing this problem.
Are you seeing a lot of status bar messages flashing by, telling you that VA is parsing files or stable include directories when you have this problem?
Can you please load Windows Task Manager and see if you are getting a high CPU usage on one core, and if this is from "devenv.exe", the IDE. A lot of parsing would explain why things are slow, but this parsing should happen when you load the solution on first loading the IDE, as well as when you unload and reload a project.
When you unload / reload, are you unloading and reloading the same project, or are you loading a separate project? If you are changing projects, is the project you are unloading a small one or a large one? |
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