How do I troubleshoot Visual Studio which is hanging when loading ASP.NET MVC project?

Question

Yesterday I worked on an MVC 3 project in Visual Studio 2010 and then shut down Visual Studio before leaving work.

This morning when I try to load the same project in Visual Studio the project hangs. I have restarted my computer, disabled all add-ons and extensions that I could. Still no banana.

I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. I would try to clean the solution if I could get it to load but I can't. (Can I clean the solution from the VS command window?).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. How do I troubleshoot this?

Seth

Answer 1

You could try starting visual studio from the command line with logging enabled.

There a several other switches available, which may also be useful, like starting in safemode...

Answer 2

Though it is something unexpected. A wild guess Try resetting user settings of Visual Studio