No matter what I do, which DB I connect with, EF seems to take around 15-30 minutes to generate a model. While it’s doing this, I get a “Visual Studio is busy” message in the system tray.
The first DB I connected to was complex and had a lot of data, lots of views so I thought, may be that’s why. Now I have a local DB file with 1 table that has 2 columns and 3 rows. It still takes the same amount of time.
Eventually VS crashes and restarts. Has anyone had this problem before? Any idea?
I’ve looked at resource monitor, devenv.exe does not seem to be consuming any resources that would indicate it’s doing a lot of work.
Turns out I had a Visual Studio DVD in my DVD drive. Each time I did something with EF, VS started to read from the disc. I have no idea what or why, but the little LED would blink. Once I ejected the disk, everything ran fine. Go figure!