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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Visual Studio 2017 Hangs on Startup

Introduction
My Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 was hanging on startup. 

Solution

I reset the user data and it worked fine. 

Step 01.
Open "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017"



Step 02.
Navigate to the following location 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
By typing 
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE"

Step 03.

Run the below command

devenv.exe /ResetUserData