Troubleshoot Tanzu Developer Tools for Visual Studio

This topic tells you how to troubleshoot issues you encounter with VMware Tanzu Developer Tools for Visual Studio.

Stop button causes workload to fail

Symptom

Clicking the red square Stop button in the Visual Studio top toolbar causes the Tanzu Application Platform workload to fail or become unresponsive indefinitely.

Solution

To end a debugging session, in the top menu click Debug > Detach All.

Frequent application restarts

Symptom

When an application is applied from Visual Studio it restarts frequently.

Cause

An application or environment behavior is triggering the application to restart.

Observed trigger behaviors include:

  • The application itself writing logs to the file system in the application directory that Live Update is watching
  • Autosave being set to a very high frequency in the IDE configuration

Solution

Prevent the trigger behavior. Example solutions include:

  • Prevent 12-factor applications from writing to the file system.
  • Reduce the autosave frequency to once every few minutes.
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