Occasionally, when performing certain actions in Visual Studio, things seem to go ‘haywire’ – Visual Studio launches many, many instances of the ‘Development Server’ – multiple icons appear in the notification area, multiple successive ‘toast’ notifications pop up etc etc.
Both of the solutions I have this problem with contain two web projects, one of which is set up to use ASP.NET forms authentication.
I am also using the Perforce source control plug-in. These solutions are under source control.
Actions that can prompt this behaviour are things like, creating a content page from a master page, clicking on the ‘Configuration’ icon at the top of the solution explorer. Ironically, actually running one of the projects doesn’t seem to cause the same problems.
Once things have settled down, I end up with a notification area that fills half my taskbar. ‘Running’ the mouse along these icons then causes them to disappear, in the same way that you sometimes get with applications that have terminated unexpectedly.
This is becoming pretty frustrating as it tends to block things I actually want to do!
Grateful for any advice. Hopefully I’ve been sufficiently clear – it’s not a straightforward issue to describe!
Thanks,
Jamie
Please check out the blog post at http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-instances-of-visual-studio.html