Visual Studio hangs when starting 'Graphics Diagnostics' if "Productivity Power Tools 2012" enabled. by colè

It happened again today.

It appears that 'Update 2 CTP 4' has been released and the incorrect .exe removed.
I installed the newer 'VS2012.2 CTP.exe' and the problem now seems to be resolved.

Just a thought; but I did a quick search and KB2707250 as per the downloaded vsupdate_KB2707250.exe and it appears to be for update 1?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2013/01/17/visual-studio-2012-update-1-kb2707250-new-features.aspx

I downloaded this .exe from the url...
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36539
...with the page title of "Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 3"

Has someone linked to the the older "Update 1" .exe up rather than the newer "Update 2 CTP 3" .exe?

Hi Rich, I downloaded and applied vsupdate_KB2707250.exe as requested.
I rebuilt everything just to be on the safe side. Enabled the extension again.
Unfortunately exactly the same things happens.
Sometimes you get lucky and the 'Graphics Diagnostics' starts; more often than not it just hangs VS.
If I disable "Productivity Power Tools 2012" then everything's fine.
Anything else you want me to try?

Hi colè, I work on the VS Graphics Debugger team.

We were able to repro your issue and we believe we have a fix for this in VS Update 2 CTP 3. You can download the fix here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797912

Please try that out and let us know how it goes

Thanks

- Rich Chiodo, VS Graphics Dev

Hi colè,

We didn't get your dump file, please zip the file and use "FeedbackID-779521" as prefix of the file name. You can use the following workspace to upload the file:
https://sftus.one.microsoft.com/choosetransfer.aspx?key=540df802-8bdd-4761-8517-dedd7e6eacc1
Password: aKUsg]Fk{epF

Thanks,
Microsoft Visual Studio Connect Support Team

The Visual Studio 2012 Feedback Tool appears to be working today.
Let me know if the already provided dump file isn't good enough.

Unfortunately I did what you requested but every time I tried to launch the feedback tool it displays...

There was an error launching Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Feedback Tool.
Please Try again later.

Initially I did think it may be this first hanging VS instance messing it up...but it wasn't.
So I'm not sure if you have another problem there or not?

Anyhow to get around this I've attached another instance of VS to the hanging VS process.
Paused it, and did a "Save Dump As" from the "Debug" menu which I guess achieves the same result.
I've attached the zipped up devenv.dmp for your perusal.

Thanks for looking.

Thanks for your feedback. In order to efficiently investigate and reproduce this issue, we are requesting additional information outlined below.

Could you please give us a dump file and call stack so that we can conduct further research?

Visual Studio now has an extension called Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Feedback Tool, available on the VS gallery(http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f8a5aac8-0418-4f88-9d34-bdbe2c4cfe72).

The extension allows you to
1. upload files,
2. collect trace and dump files
3. collect steps while you're repro'ing the issue, as well as
4. SQM logs about VS extensions installed
5. System details (in DxDiag output)

Please submit this information to us within 4 business days. We look forward to hearing from you with this information.

Microsoft Visual Studio Connect Support Team

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