Server Explorer is not responding in Visual Studio 2010 (as well?)

 

 

I think this problem was present in the previous versions of Visual Studio as well, anyway, here is what happens:

1. You have some connections / servers in Visual Studio 2010 Server Explorer.

2. Something changes for example server was renamed / removed, or a connection no longer works, not quite sure what exactly should happen…

3. When you try to select the server or connection in server explorer in order to delete it, you get the Hourglass icon, you can’t do anything and waiting doesn’t help.

 

To resolve this, as I found in Google you may want to try this (Windows 7):

1. Close ALL instances of Visual Studio

2. Go to “C:\Users\your_user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version\ServerExplorer”

     Where your_user is your user and “version” is the version of Visual Studio, in my case, Donchev and 10.0.

3. Delete the file “DefaultView.SEView”.

Note: You may want to just edit the file, removing or changing problematic connections, I wanted my Server Explorer reset so I deleted the entire file, it is faster and safer.