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Doug Null
Doug Null

Reputation: 8327

why is my Visual Studio 2019 Pro so slow debugging, after doing Visual Installer update?

VS2019 was working fine. Then I ran Visual Installer and added "Mobile development with .NET". After than, visual Installer "update" button was showing, so I did the update.

But now when I stop my VS2019 project at a breakpoint, single stepping is very slow, taking many seconds per step. Tried restarting VS2019, and restarting my Windows 10 Pro, but got same slowness.

Opened same project with VS2017, it is debugging is OK, no slowness.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 21968

Answers (6)

Ibrahim Akgul
Ibrahim Akgul

Reputation: 1

Delete .vs folder where locate in your project root directory after backup.

Upvotes: 0

user17639223
user17639223

Reputation:

I was experiencing the same issue stepping over one line of code took me 1400 ms on my VM and 6 ms on my coworker's VM. (Earlier this week he had copied my VM so essentially we were on the same machine).

Took me some time but then I remembered a change I did to my visual studio.

Earlier that week I needed to step into one of our DLLs. To do this I changed my debug settings under Project Properties --> Debug --> Debugger engines. I Checked "Enable native code debugging". This was wonderful to allow me to debug into our DLL and see what was happening on the other side, although it dramatically slowed down my debugging (233x slower to be exact!!!!).

The performance change will different per your solution and how much you are inheriting, but unchecking this did the fix for me!

Upvotes: 0

Klue
Klue

Reputation: 83

For me it was NVidia NSight for visual studio. Uninstalling it from the windows application list was the only option as it wasn't showing up in the VS2019 Extensions manager.

Upvotes: 2

AndyW
AndyW

Reputation: 71

Comprehensive deletion of all contents of %TEMP% worked for me - https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/516141/very-hight-cpu-usage-by-visual-studio-2019.html

I can't believe is 2020 and MS can't stop spaffing crap into a temp directory which causes their software to slow to a snails pace with some kind of infinite processing issue. Jeez.

Upvotes: 5

Lars
Lars

Reputation: 10092

For me it turned out to be a problem with the installation. I had old versions of Visual Studio and .NET libraries still on my machine. I did a full uninstall of Visual Studio, .NET Core SDK, .NET Framework, etc. and then re-installed Visual Studio 2019 and just the .NET libraries that I needed. After that VS 2019 debugging is speedy.

Upvotes: 1

Vikas Goyal
Vikas Goyal

Reputation: 467

The resolution I found was that the culprit is not Internet, RAM, or CPU.

It is the Disk Usage. Check for your disk usage under the Performance tab in Task Manager. Try and find out which process (Anti-Malware/ anti-virus/ant other process) is eating up your resources.

Kill the culprit and it works smooth. For me, it was Disk Scan Service and Windows Search Service (which is fairly useless).

Check this link to kill the Windows search service.

Upvotes: 9

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