NCrunch seems to get confused sometimes during frequent typing

About once a day, NCrunch seems to get stuck in "build failure" when I either copy&paste some code that introduces source errors, or do some kidns of edits (seem to be associated with introducing use of attributes or something requiring a new using or project dependency). It appears that NCrunch captures the state of the source files in-between when the editing starts (and the code is invalid) and when I have finished (and the code is clean). This only happens a small percentage of the times, but when it does even asking NCrunch to rebuld the failing projects does not work.

I end up disabling/enabling NCrunch to get things working again, but that can be time-consuming.

I cannot repro this on demeand, just something I have noticed. I am using the latest (44) build, but I think I encountered this with earlier builds also, but not frequent enough I sensed a pattern.

Anybody else seeing this?

This is a long standing synchronisation issue that so far hasn't been fixed, largely because it is very rare and has never been reproduced in a situation where it could be analysed. If you can find a way to reproduce this issue, I'd be very eager to learn how. Otherwise, if you have it happen to you, try submitting a bug report. The logs from the report can be useful in tracking the engine sequences leading up to the problem and may be useful in analysing it further.


Cheers,

Remco

I get it often when doing Get Latest in Source Control. When a teammate changed a project file, that project has to be reloaded, NCrunch sometimes is not in sync and needs to be reset. Maybe because I have files from that project open at that moment?

This makes sense. Synchronisation problems are most likely to happen in response to a large number of changes to files (for example, a source control checkout, or a big refactoring operation). You might want to try the new version of NCrunch just released (1.45). I'm keen to hear if this version reduces or resolves the problem.


Cheers,

Remco