Visual Studio gets stuck on opening a SQL project

Question

We are trying to set up a SQL project, on a new machine with Windows 7, VS 2010 with SP1 & SSDT 2010 (installed SSDT 2010 from ISO image). But getting the below message when I open the sqlproj:

Verifying your model is synchronized with your source files. Your database will be ready in 12734 operations are completed.

And the number keeps on increasing. And it keeps on running in the background.

I tried re-installing SSDT and VS 2010 but it did not help.

I created a new database project for Northwind DB, and had the same issue. I ran procmon and saw it's just going over and over the same files.

It works fine in another system with a similar configuration.

The issue seems to be related to TFS, if I unbind from TFS, it works fine. But I am not sure about the exact cause.

Plossl

Answer 1

My suggestion is if you are using source control such as Git and you have just switched branches and you are hitting this issue is to use git clean which will remove untracked files (which VS and SSDT are choking up on)

git clean -fdx

Not sure what to use if you are on TFS or SVN or HG.. but same idea applies

Orientate

This seemed to work for me, especially as sometimes there a lot of untracked files created by SSDT – Neckar

Wish I could up-vote this several more times! Really pleased to have got VS 2015 finally working. Many thanks. – Hora

This is a fix in sorts but...I just wondered if anyone knew which file in particular is causing the system to lock. – Pennypennyaliner

Don't forget to commit any uncommitted work before doing this (like I just did) :( – Hora

Answer 2

I deleted the .suo file in the .vs folder in the root of solution directory. This fixed it for me. I think this is the best and least damaging answer as it preserves your modified files and some of your other settings (of course some settings such as your start up project will be lost)

Pennypennyaliner

This worked for me in VS 2015. It was a project that was converted from 2013. – Backstay

Worker for me in VS 2022. The path from the root of the repo was .vs/{solution-name}/v17/.suo. Due to deleting the file, I was able to load the solution again, but I lost the open tabs and the state of folding in Solution Explorer. – Lumumba

It seems I also lost exception settings, breakpoints, and startup projects. – Lumumba

Answer 3

MCafee antivirus was causing the issue. The issue got resolved after disabling the antivirus.

Plossl

Its an answer, and a worthy one. Virus scanners often detect programming tools as being a problem or the realtime scan engines insist on scanning each and every file, causing this kind of slowdown. – Lareine