Visual Studio 2013 hangs when opening a solution

Question

I installed VS2013 (v12.0.21005.1) and added ReSharper 8 (v8.0.2000.2660) a day or two ago. That day it was fine. Now I\'m lucky if I can get it to open one solution in a wh

Answer 1

Basically it could be anything, but you can try a few things:

1. Turning it off and on again.
2. Clear the ReSharper cache, it's in %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\ReSharper\\SolutionCaches, where you should find a folder matching the solution you are trying to open. Just close all instances of VS2013, delete the folder and try again.
3. turn off ReSharper: Tools > Options > ReSharper > General > Suspend
4. uninstall ReSharper completely and see if problems persists.
5. Repair Visual Studio through Programs and Features.