Had a very strange issue with Windows Server 2008/BTS 2009 and DebugView recently, thought I might mention it in the hope it would save someone else some time diagnosing the issue.
During an ESB project I was working on recently, I started to get issues with my virtual machine locking up while deploying a BizTalk solution locally. The only solution was to reboot the virtual, and then deploy again. However the issue would keep occurring again and again, meaning I would be rebooting my machine every hour or so. Very frustrating!
I decided that there must be some issue with my virtual so I built another image, but the problem came back again. I started digging around to see what could be cause of the issue, checking resource monitor (cpu/disk/memory), monitoring the local SQL instance, and using Process Monitor. Still no luck.
Eventually I noticed that the issue only seemed to occur when I had DebugView open (I use it monitor ESB trace statements and other trace calls from orchestrations). After shutting it down the virtual started running properly again after a few seconds…. hmmmm.
I successfully reproduced the issue several times – something that DebugView is doing interferes with the deployment process into BizTalk, and then the flow-on effect freezes the entire machine. It only seems to affect the deployment part so just shut down DebugView before you deploy. Hope this helps!
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