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why so many instances of devenv.ex running?

One of our developers could not get a build to work....'being used by another process' error.

I asked him to shut down the IDE, blow out the bin and obj folders and try again.  Same results. 

He shut down his IDE again. I asked him to open up Task Manager and look at the Processes tab.  There was an instance of devenv.exe still running using 97% CPU.  We ended this process and his build worked fine.

I currently have one instance of the IDE open.  I looked in my Processes tab and the are 3 devenv.exe's running!  What the?

 

 

 

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  • I have this problem from time to time too - usually what will happen is vs won't quit properly & it will hog 98% fo the CPU. Just have to kill it - no idea why it happens, add-ins are my only guess.

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