My Visual Studio 2010 Professional supports 99.999% of the time when I try to open a website as a “Remote Site” through an HTTP address. However, if I open the site through the unc path, and not through HTTP, it works fine. Of course, this is not always feasible, for example, when working off-site. The same sites (assuming they are not NET40 sites) work fine in Visual Studio 2008, so I'm sure this is not a problem with Front Page Server extensions.
If I run 2010 in /safemode, it opens projects perfectly. So I thought, maybe this was one of my installed extensions. So I turned off all my extensions and tried again, but it still freezes. So, apparently, something in Visual Studio itself is different from safe and normal modes.
I ran it in logging mode and checked the log, but saw nothing. The magazine is downloaded here: http://pastebin.com/aUnVanB1 .
The exact symptoms that I see are that when I click on the name of the project, it appears and asks for my credentials. I enter them and click OK, and then loads the solution explorer, and I see a tree view, but then it just hangs with the progress dialog that says "Preparing Solution...". The progress bar continues cyclically, but it never finishes loading, and the spot where the properties window will be in the VS UI is completely unpainted, just empty empty space.
Does anyone have a clue what else can I do to try to figure out why 2010 freezes when trying to download sites via HTTP? Thank!
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