Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 – VS Freezes when Accessing Context-Menu on SSRS .rdl Reports

Sometimes when I attempt to deploy a report to my Reporting Services Server, Visual Studio freezes for a minute or more before bringing up the context menu. After some research, my problem was resolved by disabling the Image Optimizer extension. …

Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 – Locked File or Folder with Visual Studio Installer

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45839250/unable-to-update-visual-studio-installer

Quote: “The solution I found was to close down visual studio, go to “c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer”, rename the folder “Installer” to something else then run vs_installer.exe from the renamed folder.“…