.NET Framework - Visual Studio 2005 in CPU Loop

Asked By Stewart Berman

01-Apr-09 10:16 PM

Windows XP Pro SP3 with all critical updates.
AMD Dual Core

I have a number of Microsoft Products installed on this machine:
Office 2000 Pro
Office 2002 Pro
Office 2003 Pro
Office 2007 Ultimate
Visual Studio 6
Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Visual Studio 2008 Professional

All of the above were installed in order and all updates applied before the next version was
installed.

I am trying to create an application in VB.Net using Visual Studio 2005.  Every now and then Visual
Studio 2005 goes into a hard CPU loop.  The devenv.exe is using 50% of the total CPU capacity of the
machine -- roughly half of each processor.  I have to kill the application and restart it.
Unfortunately, even though there are files in the backup directory it doesn't open the dialog box
asking if I want to use them so I lose any unsaved work.  (Which means I have to save very often.)

This seems to be associated with saving the project.  That is it happens most often when I select
File\Save All although it has happened occasionally when I select Debug\Start Debugging.  The last
time I opened the project and dragged a Picture box control onto one of the Panels of a Split
container control.  I then selected File\Save All and Visual Studio 2005 went into a CPU loop.

After I kill Visual Studio 2005 there are three entries in the event log:

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Application Hang
Event Category:	(101)
Event ID:	1002
Date:		4/1/2009
Time:		10:11:14 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	NYSABW0007
Description:
Hanging application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang
address 0x00000000.

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Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67   ion Hang
0010: 20 20 64 65 76 65 6e 76     devenv
0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 38 2e 30   .exe 8.0
0020: 2e 35 30 37 32 37 2e 37   .50727.7
0028: 36 32 20 69 6e 20 68 75   62 in hu
0030: 6e 67 61 70 70 20 30 2e   ngapp 0.
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74   0.0.0 at
0040: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20    offset
0048: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30   00000000

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	.NET Runtime
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1023
Date:		4/1/2009
Time:		10:11:15 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	NYSABW0007
Description:
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3082 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2E1132) (0)

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Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Application Hang
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1001
Date:		4/1/2009
Time:		10:11:28 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	NYSABW0007
Description:
Fault bucket 355320355.

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Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20   Bucket:
0008: 33 35 35 33 32 30 33 35   35532035
0010: 35 0d 0a                  5..


Anyone else having this problem?

I would try repairing the installation but I don't think I can I repair Visual Studio 2005 without
uninstalling Visual Studio 2008.

02-Apr-09 05:15 AM

Have you tried leaving it a couple of hours to get on with whatever it isn't
telling you it's doing?

I appeared to have the same problem with VS2008 as it seemed to be that it
wanted to look at every one of the umpteen-thousand files I had in some
subdirectories of the project. After letting it get on with it a couple of
times, it has been OK since (famous last words :-)

You could use FileMon to see if it really is looking at files.

Andrew

02-Apr-09 03:59 PM

This is a relatively new project and only has 51 files in 10 folders.  It has only the GUI for the
first form which had a total of three SplitContainer controls, nine Button controls and one
DataGridView control.

The longest I let it run was eight minutes of CPU or about 15 minutes elapsed -- which should have
been enough time to take 51 files, separate them into one byte files and put them back together
again.

How do you do RAD using a system that can hang for hours at a time doing a save files?

02-Apr-09 05:37 PM

I ran Process Monitor:
8\Web\webprojectitems.old","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Synchronize,
Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete,
AllocationSize: n/a","6440"

The line above is repeated approximately ever six seconds.  It appears to be trying to create a file
in:
and getting a NAME NOT FOUND error.  Which is reasonable since there isn't a "webprojectitems.old"
directory under "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Web\."

This is for a simple Windows Forms project with no web components.

I created a directory:
and got the following two event messages in Process Monitor:

8\Web\webprojectitems.old","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Synchronize,
Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete,
AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened","6440"

Studio 8\Web\webprojectitems.old","","Filter: FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME,
FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_DIR_NAME, FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES, FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE,
FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE","6440"

It is still in a CPU loop but no longer generating events that Process Monitor can see.

The original error was in CreateFile.  The last two entries above indicate it was successful but the
directory is empty.

Anyone want to take a guess as to what is going on?