One of our customers was seeing crashes of Visual Studio and ReSharper, because of what looked like an out of memory situation. Visual Studio with ReSharper would crash loading a large solution. We expected a memory leak, or fragmentation of the Large Object Heap (LOH). But that was not the case.
In this post, let’s look at an interesting issue that we investigated (and resolved) during the past release cycle. Grab your Sherlock Holmes coat and hat, and follow along for this story from the development team! 🔍
Looking at the crime scene...
The bug report we received contained the follo