How to restart Visual Studio for Mac after freezing

Hi,

Visual Studio for Mac freezes every now and then, usually when I open another file or when refactoring something.

It will just beachball forever, so I try to kill it.

Force-quit on the dock icon doesn't entirely work, however, it appears to be closed, but the process is still running.

To make matters worse, it's impossible to kill it in the terminal.

Romanos-iMac-Pro:~ somian$ kill 456

Romanos-iMac-Pro:~ somian$ ps -ax | grep Visual

  456 ??         0:00.00 (VisualStudio)

 1104 ttys000    0:00.00 grep Visual

This means that every time visual studio froze (which may happen every 15 minutes), I need to restart my Mac!

Is there a way to restart visual studio without having to reboot? (or preventing it from freezing all the time? x))

Edit: it'll also keep showing up in the force-quit task window.

 

The

kill

command has a few different signals that it can send to an application to instruct it to stop running with the default signal being a "Gracefully shutdown, please". For apps that are completely frozen though you can send it a more forceful signal. Below should be the way to do it. Check the link for the complete list of signals.

kill -9 456

https://ss64.com/osx/kill.html

 

Thanks, I totally forgot about this parameter

using -9 closes the window. However, Visual studio won't restart after this and just bounces in the dock forever. Is there another process associated with visual studio?

After a while it'll stop bouncing, but it then looks like this where I can only select "force quit" when right-clicking the dock, but it doesn't do anything.

 

(sorry )

 

To offer some USEFUL advice instead of spam, in case this shows up in a Google search:

Just use sudo killall VisualStudio. If you're using Code, you'll have to kill the Electron process.