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GregDude
Senior Member
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 Posted - Jan 26 2026 : 11:02:14 PM
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Currently using Visual Studio 2026
Version: 18.1.1
Visual Assist
installer 2598_0
Version 10.9.2598
(Only recently changed to this version, most experience was with VA version 10.9.2597.0, though issue appear to persist.)
The current freezes last seconds to a couple minutes (30 sec to 3 minutes is not unusual). VS does not bring up the message acknowledging a delay and reporting it. Nothing is logged in Help -> Visual Studio Performance Manager.
This is with a large solution with normal C++ projects (Also have CMake cross platform projects, but this issue is not specific to those.)
I have not isolated the issue, except to observe it often re-occurring with some projects or files I'm currently working on.
Disabling VA causes the issue to completely disappear at present.
Have seen some form of freeze occur with these interactions:
. try entering project properties
. try viewing header files (go to #include file)
. try hover tab name for full path
During some delays, a message box flashes briefly with "loading document", often multiple times.
This is most frustrating, so any help to identify and fix the issue would be appreciated. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 27 2026 : 06:19:56 AM
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I recall one other user reporting this problem, but we never got any useful clues, and from memory the problem "went away" after an update, so no help there.
Have you seen this problem since starting to work with VS2026?
Have you tried disabling IDE intellisense? Setting:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Languages -> C/C++ -> Enable IntelliSense = Off
should do this, but I would follow it by a VS2026 restart just to be sure. If both IDE IntelliSense and VA's parser are busy at the same time this might explain the effect, but I would expect some form of message on the status bar.
If you run Windows Task Manager, or a similar tool, do you see a spike in CPU or IO when this happens?
Hovering over a tab name is a REALLY odd trigger for this though. There is nothing there that should trigger or require extra parsing, or any "hard" work from anyone.
How many files do you have in your solution?
If you open VA's Open File in Solution dialog (Alt-Shift-O) the title bar contains two numbers. The first number is the number of files currently listed, which changes as you filter the list. The second number is the total number of files in the list, which is normally the number of files in your solution. What is this second number? This will just give me a sense of your solution size.
If none of this offers any clues, installing VA into a test profile is probably the next sensible step. Which edition, community, professional, enterprise, of VS2026 are you using? The steps are slightly different for each edition, so I can give you the right steps for your edition.
If the problem is related to an interaction problem with another extension, or some form of problem in your IDE settings, then this should help fix the problem. If however it makes no difference, it tells us it is something system wide, or perhaps solution specific. But solution specific seems odd when you are seeing this across several different solutions. Unless the solutions have some meaningful overlap? |
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Visual Studio frequent long delays / freezes
