I use Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 to build my executables. As of today, 20th Nov, I find that when I try to run any of them in the VS Developer Command Prompt window, there is no output, execution hangs, and the process does not even respond to Ctrl-C. This happens even with executables which I built long ago and have worked successfully before. What's more, if I try to run an executable in the VS IDE in debug-mode, VS locks up.
What should I do to get these executables working again?
My PC's behaviour looks like the same as in Any app build with visual studio 2013/2015 hang But I have never used any RC edition.
Just as in Visual Studio Hangs in debug? VS does indeed hang in debug-mode, but VS does not state that it is loading any symbols. My executables do not request any symbols from any network.
Windows 8.1 does start VS successfully.
I did an Avast scan on the directory tree containing all the executables I have built using VS, and Avast said NO THREAT FOUND.
I installed VS on 21st Aug, thus 91 days ago, so I wondered if a 90-day trial period had expired, but VS Community Edition 2015 is not time-limited, is it? Visual Studio Community 2015 expiration date informs me that there is no expiration date but does not help me with my problem. Besides, Help->About Microsoft VS->License terms tells me that my copy is registered to me, and says nothing about any time period expiring.
