Sometimes ReSharper (4.5) will get stuck ‘Loading Assemblies’ for a specific solution and this causes Visual Studio fall over (not responding), the only way out is to end the devenv.exe process, from here, you are trapped – going around in circles – great!
A way out:
- Launch Visual Studio (not the solution)
- Tools –> Add-in Manager
- Untick JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 and click OK
- Open your solution
- Right click the solution in the Solution Exporer –> Clean Solution
- Tools –> Add-in Manager
- Tick JetBrains ReSharper 4.5 and click OK
- Done! (most of the time!)
Failing this, you can try deleting files with the following file extensions within your solution:
- .suo
- .resharper
- .resharper.user