Visual Studio Not Responding

JohnWhiteman

Hi there,

When debugging it can take up to 5 seconds to switch between editor tabs (ie: between PHP files). When I'm not debugging, changing between the tabs is instant as expected.

*** Update ***
Actually I found out that this was 'MSBuild.exe' recompiling the project due to the laravel session files being updated. Once I excluded that folder from the project it wasn't rebuilding anymore.

So, I guess this is out of the remit of PHPTools - unless there is somewhere I missed where you can exclude files from the build. I saw other articles relating to C# projects where you're able to specify that. In that case it would mean I could still see the files in Solution Explorer, but they wouldn't be included in build/rebuild trigger?

Kind regards,

John

JakubMisek

JohnWhiteman Hello John,

What does your solution look like?

Are there C# projects + PHP projects?
Are you debugging .NET or PHP?

Thank you,
Jakub

Add: the PHP projects should already have their files excluded from "edit and continue", but maybe Visual Studio is trying to reload some metadata of those files for some reason; we'll try to replicate the issue first

JohnWhiteman

Hi Jakub,

Thanks for the fast response.

Actually I noticed it happens even when not debugging, sorry if I didn't make that clear in my edit.

It's a purely PHP project, no C#.

I looked at general Visual Studio posts about this on the internet and saw the solution as just to 'exclude from project', which works.

So, it's not a bug or any fault of your (fantastic!) software. Perhaps it's worth thinking about if any other users are attributing any slow downs to your plugin. Or having an article about it on your help forum. Otherwise, I guess there's nothing needed to be done.

To replicate, I used the 'ProcessMon' type tools from SysInternals and I saw the msbuild running each time the website was refreshed and session file was created/updated.

Cheers,

John