FIX: Poor performance when you use VSWebSiteEvents.AssemblyReferencesEvents in Visual Studio 2015

Symptoms

Assume that you use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. When the installed Visual Studio Extensions listen to the VSWebSiteEvents.AssemblyReferencesEvents object, you experience poor performance and freezes in Visual Studio.

Cause

This issue occurs because the Visual Studio Extensions listen to the AssemblyReferenceEvents object that enables all the VSWebSiteEvents objects. This may cause computationally expensive code paths to be enabled even though they aren't being consumed.

Resolution

This update is available from the Microsoft Download Center.

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Hotfix Information

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Prerequisites

This hotfix requires Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.

Restart information

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.

Replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any previously released hotfix.
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