Editing CSS with Browser Link enabled can crash Visual Studio

Reported by Tim Hunnewell Aug 15 at 09:17 PM visual studio 2017 version 15.8 windows 10.0 debugger crash fixed in: visual studio 2017 version 15.8.4

Visual Studio crashes when editing a CSS file in debug mode, when using internet explorer.

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Mary Hou [MSFT] · Aug 16 at 09:54 AM 0

We appreciate you taking the time to report this problem. We are currently prioritizing problems that are impacting a broad set of our customers, so we may not be able to investigate this one immediately. We know this problem is important to you, so we will continue to monitor it.

Joe Davis (WEB TOOLS) [MSFT] · Aug 21 at 05:10 PM 0

Thanks for reporting this issue. Based on similar reports from other users, it doesn't appear that debugging is required to cause this crash, so I have updated the title to more accurately reflect the problem. We are investigating a fix for this issue.

Joe Davis (WEB TOOLS) [MSFT] · Aug 21 at 05:10 PM 0

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. We have changed the title to better describe the problem so others can find and engage with it

Added a solution by Joe Davis (WEB TOOLS) [MSFT] · Aug 16 at 07:42 PM

Thanks for reporting this issue. It looks like the crash is being caused by the CSS Auto Sync feature of Browser Link. If you're not using that feature, you should be able to avoid the crash by turning off that feature. (On the Standard toolbar, open the menu next to the Refresh Linked Browsers button, and turn off the CSS Auto Sync option.)

Let us know if that doesn't unblock you for now. We will investigate a fix for this crash in a future update.

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Tim Hunnewell · Aug 22 at 08:15 PM 0

I am using that feature and this was working in the prior release. The most recent update broke this feature.

Joe Davis (WEB TOOLS) [MSFT] Tim Hunnewell · Aug 23 at 05:42 PM 0

I apologize for the inconvenience. We're working on getting a fix out as soon as possible. Disabling the feature is only a temporary workaround.

Added a solution by jiachunhui · Aug 22 at 09:36 AM

It's inconvenient to turn off the CSS auto-sync feature, so there's a temporary solution here, that is, the css file browser is automatically synced with the Visual Studio code, and the rest continues to use visual studio 2017.

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CSS自动同步功能关闭后会很不方便，所以在这里有一个临时的解决方案，就是用视觉工作室代码编辑css文件浏览器也会自动同步，其它还继续使用visual studio 2017，

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Joe Davis (WEB TOOLS) [MSFT] · Aug 22 at 05:23 PM 0

Can you explain what you mean when you say it's inconvenient to turn off the feature? If you're avoiding the CSS editor by editing in the browser, then CSS Auto Sync won't do anything whether it's on or off.

Added a solution by Blair Wang [MSFT] · 6 days ago

This issue has been fixed and is now available in our latest update. You can download the update via the in-product notification or from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ Thanks to everyone who provided feedback, votes and solutions for this problem.

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