Visual Studio 2005 freezes when building BizTalk 2006 R2 projects, devenv.exe @ 99% CPU util

Question

I am working with a brand new VPC image that has BizTalk 2006 R2 and I am running into a issue where Visual Studio keeps freezing when I build a BizTalk project.  This is the second day we have used this image on my team.  The first day we did not encounter any issues.  Today we ran into a issue where Visual Studio just freezes and becomes unresponsive when building any solutions or projects that contain BizTalk project templates.  The VS process (devenv.exe) reaches 99% of CPU utilization and allocates about 114 MB of memory in the task manager on the VPC.  When it becomes unresponsive for over 5-10 mins, we are forced to kill devenv.exe from the task manager.

 

Here are all the things I have tried so far (in order) and have been unsuccessful:

• Clean solution option from the VS menu and rebuild.
• Deleted all bin and obj directories from the solution and tried closing VS, reopening VS, and rebuilding the solution
• Tried creating and building a simple BizTalk project with one schema
• Tried building the HelloWorld project from the BizTalk SDK
• Visual Studio 2005 Repair from Add/Remove Programs
• BizTalk Server 2006 Repair from Add/Remove Programs

In order to eliminate any issues related to my solution, I am currently only testing the HelloWorld project located in the BizTalk SDK directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\SDK\Samples\Orchestrations\HelloWorld).  When building this project it immediately freezes as described above.  By the way, any non-BizTalk project templates compile and run fine.  I have tested a simple C# Console Application which works fine.

 

Complete hardware and software details are below.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Host Hardware

• Dell Optiplex 745
• Intel Core 2 Duo 670 2.66GHZ
• 3069 MB
• 148 GB HD (28 GB free)

Host Software

• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Virtual PC 2007

VPC Hardware

• 1200 MB Allocated
• 20 GB Fixed-size VHD ( 5 GB free)

VPC Software

• Windows Server 2003 Ent. Ed. SP2
• SQL Server 2005 SP2
• Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite w/SP1 (see complete details below)
• BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Developer Edition
• Microsoft Office 2007 (Excel, InfoPath, Word)
• WSS 2.0 SP2
• WSS 3.0 (Installed before WSS 2.0 for side by side hosting)

 

 

 

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Answer 1

Hi,

 

Did you find a solution to your problem?

 

I am on BizTalk 2006..and was building/deploying fine.

 

All of a sudden the same symptoms started and i have not been able to build

 

Tried a lot of options with no luck

 

Hema

Answer 2

Hey,

 

No response from anyone on this issue and I did not figure out the problem either.  I ended up rebuilding another BizTalk image from our base image.  Our developer has been using this new image for about a week now and he has not encountered the same issues.

 

Sorry.

Monish

Answer 3

Hi Monish,

 

This issue was resolved for me. I had the "Output window" open while building and that caused the CPU utliz. to go to 99..and the devenv memory util would continually increase; so would memory for sqlserver.exe

 

Also the simplest of orchestrations wouldnt finish building or deploying. I let it run for close to 30 mims max..and lost patience.

 

Closing the window did the trick for me.

 

Hema

 

 

Answer 4

I just ran into this issue again with another simple BizTalk project.  After closing the output window, my project compiled fine and VS did not freeze.  I am glad to find a workaround but the solution is ridiculous!

Answer 5

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

hemabiz wrote:

I had the "Output window" open while building and that caused the CPU utliz. to go to 99..and the devenv memory util would continually increase; so would memory for sqlserver.exe

I can confirm this method finally allowed me to compile the BizTalk projects.

 

Unfortunately, the KB913432 hotfix that might have fixed this problems turns out not to be the case. It would still seize the CPU if the Output window is open.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;913432

 

Thanks

Answer 7

THANK YOU! I was running into this same issue.

Answer 8

Reinstall Internet Explorer.