Why is workbench suddenly so extremely slow.

Hi,

I have a scss file of 800+ lines. Every keystroke, every scroll action, everything what I do: It is loading, loading and loading. Visual Studio feezes for 15 - 40 seconds and then I can do another keystroke. Unworkable.

First I loved MindScape, now I am starting to hate it.

I'm on Visual Studio 2015. Core I7, 16GB RAM, 256 GB SSD.

What on earth can I do to make it work again?

I've created a video to show it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLROTisJiQ

The video is currently marked as private so I cannot view it however what other extensions do you have enabled? We have seen this type of issue in the past occur where another extension is causing the syntax tree to be updated or inspected aggressively which triggers a lot of re-parsing for WW.

Jeremy

You should be able to view the video now.

These extensions are installed. I think most of them come with VS2015. Do you think it is one of these?

None of those extensions are known to cause any problems so I would probably say its not another extension here.

On viewing the video this doesn't look like an issues we have seen before. One thing I will get you to try is can you try changing the "Compile Dependencies" setting under Tools/Options/Web Workbench in the Compilation section to False to change the behaviour away from the default and then see if that makes a significant difference.

If that makes no difference you should change the setting back to the default and could you send through a sample project which replicates the behaviour and we can have a look into reproducing the problem here and then looking at whats going on.

Thanks!
Jeremy

Thanks for your supprt Jeremy.

I cant find the "Compile Dependencies" in the Web Workbench options.

These are the options available:

You will need to update to a current build, you can grab the latest nightly build from under your Downloads in My Account.

Jeremy

Thanks. I had probably a very old release. I renewed subscription and installed the nightly build to studio 2015. I let you know if it is fixed :)

Thanks!

I can confirm that the new build (without changing any options) have fixed the problem. Thanks!

I am having the same issue. I'd like to download a "nightly build" from the downloads page, however, there does not appear to be a link for a nightly build under Web Workbench.

I've tried purchasing a license, but cannot get past the "Purchase" page. When I submit, page just reloads without any indication of an error.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Nightly builds can be downloaded from under your Web Workbench subscription in My Accounts by using the Download link.

In terms of the issue with purchasing, Im sorry to hear you are having an issue - that certainly isnt what should be happening. Do you have any browser extensions/toolbars installed as it sounds like there is something interfering with the on-page JavaScript.

Jeremy

It's happening again. Looks like it is specially happening when I edit older solutions. I write some charachters and VS hangs... and suddenly writes all characters very fast. I disabled Compile Dependencies but it doesnt help.

It is fixed when I outcomment the @import lines.

I am having the same issues in Visual Studio 2013 using the latest free build since I do not have a pro account. I would be happy to purchase the pro version if it fixes the issue or get a nightly build to fix this issue BUT how can I determine that it will be fixed ? Can you not send me a trial version of latest nightly that I can test ? Visual Studio comes to a grinding halt when I save a scss file and is unresponsive for 3-4 minutes, really unproductive.

I have the pro version and the problem exists there too. Try working without to many @imports. That seems to work for me. See this threat: http://www.mindscapehq.com/forums/thread/4356307