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[email protected]
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 Posted - Sep 21 2022 : 2:22:26 PM
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I'm using Visual Studio 2019 v. 16.9.4. I've recently been having a lot of crashes where I'm typing a line of code and intellisense will suddenly hang. I always see the Whole Tomato extension trying to do something with suggesting code just before the crash. So the Whole Tomato extension is squarely in my sites as the culprit.
I've disabled the Whole Tomato extension. I haven't seen the crash for a while now. I'm trying to use Visual Studio for the day without it just to be sure.
My extension is up to date. Just wondering if there is something I could delete or cleanup that might fix this? |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 22 2022 : 07:24:22 AM
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To state the obvious this should not be happening, and I don't think anyone else has reported this problem.
Which programming language or languages are you working in? Corruption in the IDE intellisense database is very rare, but can happen, and can trigger crashes.
So as a first step, can you please try pressing the button:
VA Options -> Performance -> Rebuild symbol databases
which will require an IDE restart to take effect. The next step is to disable IDE intellisense via:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Disable Database = True
but obviously this won't have much effect if you only work in C#.
If this doesn't have any effect a mini dump or two of the crash would be most appreciated. There are also further tests we can try as well. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 22 2022 : 07:25:23 AM
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| A random follow up thought, are you working with Unreal Engine? If so, do you have the Unreal Engine extension installed? We did just get a report from one user of regular crashing with VA and the UE extension installed, but we don't have any further details on that yet. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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[email protected]
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Posted - Sep 22 2022 : 08:32:08 AM
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Haven't tried your solution yet. But to answer your questions. I am working on a custom game engine written in c++. I will give this a try and see if it resolves the issue. Thank you for your response.
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[email protected]
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Posted - Sep 22 2022 : 09:08:36 AM
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| Just did your suggestions and will let you know how things go. |
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[email protected]
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Posted - Sep 22 2022 : 6:05:01 PM
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| Been using VA all day since I did the above recommendations. Haven't seen a crash yet. I'm going to say this is fixed. If it comes back I'll be sure to report it. Thanks again! |
klove |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 23 2022 : 06:01:32 AM
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Thank you for the update, it sounds like there was a corruption problem with either the VA or IDE symbol database then. Hopefully this stays fixed and working well for you  |
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[email protected]
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Posted - Oct 12 2022 : 3:10:48 PM
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Okay, further working with this issue. So When I did what you suggested, indeed Visual Studio stopped crashing. However, setting IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Disable Database = True means I lost a bunch of useful functions. For instance, I could no longer alt-click on a function or variable to look it up and other similar issues.
So I re-enabled the database (ie, set Disable Database = false), and went again to work. The core functionality all worked as expected but then boom! The crash came back.
So, it appears that the crash is related to the suggestions feature of VA. I went into VA Options, and went to the suggestions catagory and turned off "Enable Suggestion Lists" and have been working. No further crashes at this point.
So somehow, this crash bug might be related to the suggestions list that VA puts up. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Nov 11 2022 : 12:49:53 PM
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Apologies for the slow reply.
Firstly, can you please try upgrading to VA 2463, https://www.wholetomato.com/downloads
having you on the most recent version always makes debugging things a bit easier. Assuming this doesn't fix the problem, would it be possible to get a mini dump of the crash? If so can you please send it, or a link to it, via email:
[email protected]
including this thread ID or URL in the description, so we can match it up.
The fact that it seems to be triggered by VA suggestions firmly suggests that VA is the problem, so it would be good to try and get to the bottom of this, if possible. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Whole Tomato causing Visual Studio to Crash?
