PSoC Creator 4.2 crashes when Visual Studio is open

[user_1669321]

Hi,

I just found out that Creator will crash after a while when Visual Studio 2019 is open at the same time.

Has anyone experienced this as well?

Fred

[MotooTanaka]

Dear Fred-san,

I tried with Windows 10 64bit

(1) First after starting PSoC Creator I started Visual Studio 2019... Updater started >_<

(2) After installing the update, I created a new project in Visual Studio 2019 (about 14:05)

(3) Then I typed a place holder c++ source... and compiled (14:20)

(4) Just in case, I brought PSoC Creator to the front and rebuilt my project (14:22)

(5) Right now, it's about 14:26 and PSoC Creator is gone !? (14:26)

So,  my first trial verified what you asked.

Best Regards,

18-Oct-2019

Motoo Tanaka

[MotooTanaka]

Dear Fred-san,

I tried another run, this time I started Task-Manager to see the load

and let a screen capture application to record desktop screen shot every minutes.

After more than two hours, both application are still alive.

I have not been able to reproduce the crash of PSoC Creator this time.

Best Regards,

18-Oct-2019

Motoo Tanaka

[user_1669321]

Hi Motoo,

It would seem that it's related to building a project in Visual Studio while PSoC Creator is open.

[MotooTanaka]

Dear Fred-san,

As the KBA Dheeraj-san pointed, the safest approach must be

Workaround: Cypress recommends that you use only one IDE at a time.

In my second round test, I was running the Task-Manager and switched between IDEs

and built both project rapidly but could not re-produce the problem.

So the interference of the task-manager might pacified the symptom a little.

But if you don't want to take a chance,

using only one IDE at a time seems to be the only suggested method for the time being.

Best Regards,

23-Oct-2019

Motoo Tanaka

[DheerajK_81 · Accepted solution]

Yes, this is a known issue which occurs rarely and is hard to reproduce. Please find more information here: PSoC Creator May Crash when Run Concurrently with Visual Studio on Windows 10 - KBA226098

Regards,
Dheeraj

[Len_CONSULTRON]

Hi,

Dheeraj and Motoo are correct regarding the KBA.

It should be noted that Visual Studio 2019 is now at 16.3.6.   I received two update notifications within one week.  Maybe they fixed the issue.

Len