CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2015
Eddy
Eddy

Reputation: 379

Visual Studio 2015 hangs

I have a system which I have updated from W7 to W10. The W7 was a very basic system with just Adobe, Avast, Chrome, Office 2010 and the standard programs that came with the DELL E6400.

I made a very simple program and put a BP on the first line. Then I pressed "Local Windows Debugger". The program compiled OK but then VS hung. It hung with the swirl continually running. It hung so bad that I could not cause an exit by clicking the close button.

Task manager shows it is running with 1.8% CPU and no disk or network activity.

Suspecting a problem with the W10 upgrade I tried the same thing on my E6440 but got the same result.

I searched the internet looking for a problem like this but have not found anything. I ran Windows Update and it did not mention an update for VS2015.

Has anyone seen this problem? Does anyone have any ideas as to how to run it down?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 313

Answers (2)

Eddy
Eddy

Reputation: 379

I found that Avast is the most likely cause. If I disable a feature called "Deep Screen" then I don't have the problem. Since I never had the problem before I suspect that there was an Avast update that is now causing the problem.

It could be that DeepScreen is the feature that causes Avast to scan a program that it has never seen just as drescherjm has described.

So for all using VS2015, uncheck Settings->DeepScreen in Avast.

Upvotes: 1

drescherjm
drescherjm

Reputation: 10837

Some antivirus software like avast are known to cause this type of behavior on unknown applications. All programs that you write will be unknown at least the first build so the application will be run in a sandbox to verify that they do not exhibit virus like behavior. Your antivirus should allow exceptions to turn off this sandboxing for specific paths which may be your best option as a programmer.

Upvotes: 0

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