Visual Studio 2008 Unresponsive When Opening JavaScript Files

Question

I'm starting a new ASP.NET project that I'm trying to use some jQuery with, but whenever I try to open .js file (blank or containing a few lines of javascript) in Visual Studio (SP1), it often hangs; showing the .js filename in a new tab, but the actual text editor window showing whatever was drawn to the screen before opening the .js file. Eventually, after closing and re-opening, it will open in the text editor, but the font is always something like 10pt Arial and the colors do not match what I have set in Visual Studio options. Even after changing this in VS options, the next re-launch of Visual Studio yields the same results.

Has anyone else experienced hang, unresponsiveness, wonkiness from Visual Studio with JavaScript files? Any advice?

Answer 1

Maybe one of the hotfixes will help and solve your problem.

Answer 2

Do you have PowerCommands for Visual Studio installed? If so, check out this answer

Answer 3

I had a similar problem in my previous install after installing sp1 and the hotfix for getting javascript intellisense on jquery. At the time I had only the standard install and had to install sp1 separately. After trying a reinstall doing the standard install then sp1 then the jquery hotfix it still had the same problem. I ended up having to get a visual studio sp1 disk and then it worked.

Answer 4

I ended up re-installing Visual Studio 2008 and SP1 and this resolved my problem.