After a very brief analysis it seems that issue can be related to CodeAnalysis implementation which is enabled by default and I could not find any configuration file option which can disable it.
Here are reference search results.
I was however able to successfully disable CodeAnalysis VS plugin for the time being and it seems it made a difference in how smoothly VS runs.
The only change was to rename CodeAnalysis extension plugin folder from:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CodeAnalysis
to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CodeAnalysis_disabled
This obviously will degrade VisualStudio feature set and possibly cause some side effects but since I’m using ReSharper’s own alanylsis features, the VS CodeAnalysis was just excessive.
Update:
It looks like Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.VCPlugin.dll is also added to GAC and protected from deletion by gacutil. To forcibly remove it from GAC following steps are required:
- Delete the following registry key but save it first just in case:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies\Global]
“Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis,version=\”14.0.0.0\”,publicKeyToken=\”b03f5f7f11d50a3a\”,processorArchitecture=\”MSIL\”,fileVersion=\”14.0.23107.0\”,culture=\”neutral\””=hex(7):6a,\
00,5f,00,65,00,7e,00,5a,00,61,00,47,00,71,00,2a,00,3f,00,6a,00,61,00,31,00,\
30,00,6e,00,66,00,70,00,4e,00,2d,00,44,00,54,00,65,00,73,00,74,00,54,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,6c,00,73,00,5f,00,65,00,6e,00,75,00,3e,00,39,00,42,00,21,00,4e,00,\
63,00,6a,00,24,00,58,00,70,00,45,00,42,00,75,00,6a,00,21,00,56,00,3d,00,2d,\
00,31,00,51,00,32,00,00,00,68,00,6a,00,4f,00,46,00,70,00,48,00,2d,00,24,00,\
4b,00,34,00,69,00,4f,00,68,00,33,00,72,00,60,00,65,00,62,00,28,00,36,00,43,\
00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5f,00,41,00,6e,00,61,00,6c,00,79,00,73,00,69,00,73,00,\
5f,00,54,00,6f,00,6f,00,6c,00,73,00,5f,00,31,00,31,00,39,00,38,00,37,00,5f,\
00,78,00,38,00,36,00,5f,00,65,00,6e,00,75,00,3e,00,39,00,42,00,21,00,4e,00,\
63,00,6a,00,24,00,58,00,70,00,45,00,42,00,75,00,6a,00,21,00,56,00,3d,00,2d,\
00,31,00,51,00,32,00,00,00,00,00
- Uninstall the assembly from GAC
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6 Tools\x64\gacutil.exe” /u “Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL” /f
It migt be also advised to move CodeAnalysis_disabled folder to another location as I cannot tell how VS MEF loader is implemented and where will it search for plugins.