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shippy
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - Dec 15 2025 : 6:35:21 PM
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| I've been hitting an issue on freezing in VS 2026 upon loading my project workspace (mentioned in another thread). I determined VA was involved because when I disabled the extension, the issue went away. I've noticed twice now that after re-enabling the extension, it doesn't actually show in the extensions menu so I can't get to its settings. I also don't see things on the status bar from VA like I normally would when opening up a project. Disabling and re-enabling again doesn't seem to fix it. I have to re-run setup to get it back to appearing in the extensions menu. |
-Shippy |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Dec 16 2025 : 07:22:27 AM
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VA not loading after being disabled and then enabled in the manage extensions screen is currently a known problem:
case=166040
The fact that VA is somehow involved in the VS2026 freezes doesn't please me, but it does sort of make sense.
A mini dump of the frozen devenv.exe process would be interesting, and it might even help us to identify what is going on here, if that is possible.
When the IDE freezes, does it freeze just for a few seconds and then resume working again, or does it stay frozen and never resume?
Trying a test profile is another sensible step, since that might offer us some clues. It is possible VA is interacting with another extension, or something else in your default profile, in which case the test profile might help. Which edition of VS2026 are you using? The steps are slightly different for each edition, or I have a powershell script I can email you to help make setting up a test profile easier. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19286 Posts |
Posted - Dec 16 2025 : 07:27:19 AM
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Turns out we have encountered a hang on startup of VS2026, sometimes with Unreal Engine, and are working on a possible fix. But I don't know if that was the same problem as the one you are seeing or not. But for reference:
case=166056 |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Dusan
Whole Tomato Software
Slovakia
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Posted - Dec 16 2025 : 09:40:12 AM
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In insiders there seems to be a bug.
To fix the problem run devenv.exe /Setup
That fixes the state, then run it normally.
Another way is to clear the extensions cache and MEF cache before executing devenv.exe |
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Cannot disable/re-enable VA in VS 2026
