Visual Studio 2012 A remote operation is taking longer than expected

Question

I'm running Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8 64bit. I have a 64 bit project that is in source control and I'm trying to run it at home on my Windows 8 pc. The application builds successfully however the remote debugger doesn't work at all.

It says "A remote operation is taking longer than expected". I understand why its remote, being that 32 bit Visual Studio needs to access msvsmon.exe to debug through 64 bit applications but I've never seen this happen on a local machine where the source code has been checked out.

I tried reinstalling Visual Studio 2012, playing with ports (4016) as well as running as admin. Checked that VPN wasn't an issue by uninstalling the client.

I am now out of ideas. I tried creating a brand new local project to test and set it as 64 bit but the operation still does not succeed.

Any ideas or suggestions? Is this a known issue with Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8?

Answer 1

I think you should try this:

• Run cmd.exe as administrator.
• Type in and run the following two lines of command:

netsh winsock reset catalog

netsh int ip reset reset.log hit

• It may say that a reboot is required, but actually that is not necessary.
• Try to debug your application again, the problem should be solved.

EDIT: Sorry for not providing an explanation for this before. The answer actually came from a Chinese forum and the original author didn't explain it much. But he did say that it's because Visual Studio is a 32bit program which may have problem accessing network under 64bit Windows 7, and the aforementioned solution resets the network connection therefore solves the problem. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The only answer I have gotten to work with VS2012 is to go into the Project properties > Compile > Target CPU and set the option to "x86".

This also seems related to this question: Can't start debugger in VS2012 RC They submitted this to Microsoft Connect as well. Seems to be a Visual Studio problem...

best of luck.