How to unfreeze debugger

Question

Hi all,

I'm running in to an issue where my solution freezes when debugging. If I place a breakpoint at the beginning of the solution, it wont freeze and will allow me to either continue or step through just fine. With this solution however, I need it to start from a specific point in the code. When I try to start it from that specific point, it'll freeze, and the output and locals box will have a popup in each saying "Busy..". It did not have this issue a few days ago, but just started yesterday.

It only occurs to this specific solution (I can debug other solutions just fine). Using C#/.NET mostly.

Remedies I've tried: Clean/Rebuild, repair on installer, uninstall just app, uninstall app and associated files, running Release, code cleanup, upgrading/downgrading vos, placing breakpoint at beginning then jumping to next breakpoint at specified point

Running latest version of Visual Studios 19 Community at the moment.

Answer 1

UPDATE: I've isolated the issue to the locals box when debugging. If I start debugging the solution and close the locals box, it runs through just fine. When the locals box is open however, the entire application freezes. I'm not sure if maybe there are too many local variables present causing the tool to crash, although this issue wasn't present just a few days ago in the same solution. Either way I'm going to continue digging and keep this forum updated as this seems to be a pretty common issue.