serviceHub.Host.CLR.x86 taking a lot of memory and CPC

The serviceHub.Host.CLR.x86 is responsible for running some processes in the background for Visual Studio 2017/2019. Among other features, there are three Visual Studio features that run under this process and, in some cases, cause high CPU/Memory usage. They are: Full solution analysis. Live Unit Testing. (only in Visual Studio Enterprise) Code Lens. (only in Visual Studio Enterprise and Professional) Disable these features as … Read more

What is vshub.exe in the system tray?

According to Visual Studio Blog site (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/08/18/visual-studio-14-ctp-3-released.aspx?PageIndex=2&wa=wsignin1.0): “The Visual Studio Hub is an executable that supports multi-tool communication across the VS family of apps, service composition/isolation, and data/compute outside of the Visual Studio process.”

Are Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools still available for download?

It is not clear how Microsoft decided not to make VS2017 Build Tool installer an obvious option for you to download, but maintainers on Chocolatey have packed up every recent releases, so you can download and install from there. Alternatively, the chocolatey install script contains a link to Microsoft servers where the VS 2017 Build Tools Installer is … Read more

Visual Studio – vdproj is incompatible

vdproj is a MSI creation project for Visual Studio. Its been deprecated and most people have moved on to either WIX or NSIS or a professional grade installer creation tools such as Install Shield. If you do not require an installer for your product just exclude the vdproj project from the solution and continue with your life for fun if you want … Read more

This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer

In my case, I had to remove the following from the .csproj file: In fact, in this snippet you can see where the error message is coming from. I was converting from MSBuild-Integrated Package Restore to Automatic Package Restore (http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/migrating-to-automatic-package-restore)

Fresh installed Visual Studio 2017 won’t create C++ project with error 0x80041fe2

I just installed Visual Studio 2017 (current time: August 2018). I only need C++ so I picked C++ component and deselected everything listed in “optional” items. Then after the installation, I cannot even create any C++ projects including both console and desktop projects. It gives me a error dialog of “Exception from hresult 0x80041fe2”. I … Read more