Visual Studio 2008 works almost flawlessly, its rock steady and a pleasure to develop with. However, once in a while it has its moment. One such moment (which is not entirely its fault) is when Visual Studio hangs when debugging Silverlight code. This has only happened to me when using Chrome as my default browser, as its out of process plug-in model introduces complications (aka Chrome is hell bent of killing the Silverlight plugin while you troll through your source code trying to find bugs).
Anyway, if you open Windows Task Manager in Windows 7 and select Visual Studio under the applications tab and click the End Task button nothing happens. Visual Studio is still stuck and refuses to die. The way to kill it (or so I think) is to right click the Visual Studio Task (under applications) and select Go To Process. Right click this process name and select End Process Tree to actually kill Visual Studio. You might lose some data in the process, but what the hell atleast the damn thing will die. Next time you start Visual Studio select Internet Explorer as your default browser for awesome trouble free Silverlight debugging.
No comments:
Post a Comment