Visual studio locks up when I create project from Existing Node.js Source

[SteveALee]

After creating a new project the VS UI locks up completely and I need to end task VS. I then open the project and all is well.

Is there any way I can find out what's happening?

I have tried:

• Stripping project down to empty index.js and simple package.json created with "npm init"
• removing all spaces from the path - C:\Users\Steve\Documents\projects\spikes\hapi-book
• disabling "add to version" control in the create wizard - which seems to do nothing anyway
• disabling / removing various VS extensions

I have VS community 2015 and updated everything to latest

Any ideas?

[zhengbli]

Does this happen with the RC2 version of node tool? Also, does this happen when you add the new project to a existing solution or creating a new solution?

[mousetraps]

Do you happen to have a bower_components or node_modules folder that is not at the root of your project?

See #430 (which I just filed)

[SteveALee]

@zhengbli I didn't see RC2 so just downloaded 1.1 (I did reinstall it just in case). I deleted the sln and proj and created new project

@mousetraps No. I stripped down to just an empty index.js and simple package.json with no more files and folders.

[SteveALee]

@zhengbli where can I find RC2?

[zhengbli]

@SteveALee You can find the download link at http://aka.ms/ntvslatest

[zhengbli]

Also can you do the following to help us diagnose the problem:

1. open task manager, go to "details" tab
2. right click on one of the column names, choose "select columns"
3. check "command line" in the list
4. repro the problem, and take a screenshot of the task manager details tab with the "command line" column, so we can figure out what is taking up the resources.

Thanks!

[SteveALee]

The UI is locked but nothing much is happening with devenv.exe - it appears to be 0 cycles. It doesnt't appear to ever recover. This is the screen shot of VS straight after creating the project

[SteveALee]

Here is my package.json

{
  "name": "dindin",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "wibble",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Index.js is empty (but same problem if it has content)

.njsproj

    
        Debug
        2.0
        {1bf69820-c08a-4207-8084-5f6b180e52ff}
        
        ShowAllFiles
        index.js
        .
        .
        {3AF33F2E-1136-4D97-BBB7-1795711AC8B8};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{9092AA53-FB77-4645-B42D-1CCCA6BD08BD}
        11.0
        $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)
    
    
    
    
        
        
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
          
            
              False
              True
              0
              /
              http://localhost:48022/
              False
              True
              http://localhost:1337
              False
            
          
          
            
              
              
              CurrentPage
              True
              False
              False
              False
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              False
              False
            
          
        
    

The path

C:\Users\Steve\Documents\projects\spikes\hapi-book-Copy.vs\NodejsApp1\v14

is empty

[zhengbli]

@SteveALee I tested using your files and couldn't repro the problem. And as the content of the .njsproj is parsed by GitHub somehow I cannot see all of it. Could you put it as a gist and share the link? Thanks!

[SteveALee]

@zhengbli oh what a mess. I thought markdown escaped that critical tags. Will sort out.

[SteveALee]

@zhengbli Please see https://gist.github.com/SteveALee/a9f838b79639949ac879

[zhengbli]

Ok the njproj file is identical to what I have on my machine, except the projectGuid. That means it can create the project fine, only has problems when trying to open it. A recent fix at #396 might be related to that part. Although @mousetraps @billti do you have any idea why no .suo files are generated?

[billti]

The .suo files are an artifact of Visual Studio, and not specific to NTVS. Are they being created for other project/solution types? If not, then it would seem to be a general VS error.

Is there anything unique/interesting about this configuration? Are you creating projects on a local drive? Do you have My Document redirected? Any other extensions installed into VS? etc.

[SteveALee]

@billti Perhaps the lack of .suo files are due to having no code in the index.js?

Nothing unusually interesting. here :)
I disabled all the new extensions. Also moved test project folder to c:.

In desperation I have uninstalled VS (13 and 15), removed all the Azure and SQL server items left and reinstalled VS community using typical rather than full. Also re installed NTVS 1.1 RC2. I probably uninstalled too much as VS install errored about SQL Server compact 4 missing path (haven't resolved that one yet) and VS errors on startup about the resource manager package not loading properly.

The bad news is VS STILL locks up after adding the new project. It's just that now the VS UI is in a incomplete state and not showing the main window

I wonder is it possibly as I am not using TFS?

Anyway I can at least work around it by restarting VS and as you can't see it perhaps mark as cannot reproduce?

Now I need to sort out my VS installation.

[zhengbli]

@SteveALee Hi Steve, we just updated the RC2 with a couple of fixes that may be related to your situation. If you have time could you give it a shot? https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/releases/tag/v1.1-RC.2.1