How to stop right click dead-locking Visual Studio 2008

crashdeadlockvisual-studio-2008

I have a very serious problem with Visual Studio 2008.
Occasionally when I right-click (for go to definition, set next statement etc) when I'm debugging, Visual Studio will just dead-lock and go into not responding mode.

Has anyone had the same problem? Does anyone know how to solve it?

Edit: I'm using SP1 with a couple of hot-fixes.

Best Answer

Problem:
Signed Applications/dlls load slowly in Vista. Visual Studio IDE 'Hangs' on offline/non-internet-connected workstations. Without internet connectivity the certificate revocation check times out and causes applications to hang. When debugging/stepping through code dlls are loaded as needed and this is when the revocation check is attempted and the VS IDE becomes unresponsive.

What this effects:
This effects all signed applications/dlls and is also the reason for Microsoft Word/Excel taking so long to open a simple document. Office applications, SQL Management Studio, Visual Studio, Web Applications that use a certificate.

Fix:
Disable checking of Publisher's Certificate Revocation

Via IE:

  1. Go to Internet Options in IE 7
  2. Then go to the Security Tab, scroll towards the bottom
  3. Uncheck the 'Check for Publisher's Certificate Revocation' checkbox
  4. Click OK

Via the registry:

  1. Open regedit
  2. Browse to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing
  3. To disable the check: Change the value of the State key to 146944 Decimal or 0x00023e00 Hexadecimal
    To re-enable the check: Change the value of the State key to 146432 Decimal or 0x00023c00 Hexadecimal

Alternate Fix:
Disable the Visual Studio Hosting Process:

  1. Open a project in Visual Studio.
  2. On the Project menu, click Properties.
  3. Click the Debug tab.
  4. Clear the Enable the Visual Studio hosting process check box.

Note: The Alternate Fix causes the loss of some debugging functionality.

Background:
Microsoft Connect Report

Related Topic