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Opening a source controlled ASP.NET web project using Visual Studio .NET
The project appears to "hang" while "initializing offline cache"
On the affected workstation, open the registry (Start -> Run: RegEdit.exe) and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
If there is a value key named "UserPostMessageLimit" change the value to something greater than 10,000 (the maximum is 18,000). If this value key does not exist, right click the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
key and choose "New" "DWord" value named "UserPostMessageLimit" (without the quotation marks) and set it to a value greater than 10,000.
You will need to reboot the workstation for this setting to take effect. Once rebooted, delete the local users VSWebCache (this folder should be located in C:\documents and settings\<username>\VSWebCache), then open Visual Studio and retry the "open from source control".
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